Clementine Breen
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Did you tell them about the abuse? I did not. Well, how much investigation into your history took place? Very little, because the second we got into my history, it just came crumbling down. In my referral, it says that I had held a male identity since childhood. Besides just physical discomfort with my body and just feeling disconnected from girls, it was really no sign of prior gender dysphoria.
Right. I was already cleared for surgery, so I traveled to San Francisco. Recommendation of Olson, the specific doctor.
Because he doesn't have age limits. No age limits. Yeah. What's interesting about my case too is even in my referral notes, which the surgeon saw, there's conflicting information. So immediately you can tell it's sort of rubber stamped and they didn't really look through it.
Yeah.
My name's Clementine. I'm a 22-year-old college student. I don't really consider myself a super political person. I just... Seeing news about topics like this and other detransitioners come out and tell their stories, I just felt like I had to say something considering the details of my particular story. I felt like I couldn't just watch this unfold and not participate in the conversation.
So I really just want to spread awareness about the reality of child transition and what actually happens to people after they decide to detransition.
Also my therapist, Susan Landon, as well.
I believe she's just a family and general therapist, but she works specifically with trans youth. Okay, okay.
When I was 12 years old, I had a puberty blocker implant placed in my left arm. And when I was 13 years old, I was put on testosterone, which I continued until about earlier this year. But the last couple years of being on testosterone, I was kind of on and off. And then when I was about 14 years old, I had a double mastectomy.
Yes. So just to give enough context, when I was about six years old, I was sexually abused. And that was something I had never even dealt with or talked about until much, much later on. So by the time that I was approaching puberty, around 11 years old, I think I started going through puberty, I started just feeling terrible, terrible anxiety about my body and about the idea of becoming a woman.
And I felt really, really isolated from my female peers because I had... really a different perspective on puberty and what it meant to be a woman because of what happened to me when I was really young.
Yeah, so I was sexually abused by an older classmate. He was about four years older than me and it went on for about a year. So it was pretty intense. And I just, in my brain, I just sort of, processed it as something I didn't need to think about. So I never really dealt with that until later. Okay.
Exactly.
Yeah. So just to put it bluntly, I was raped multiple times. So when I was coming to 11, 12, and I started learning about sex ed and figuring out what sex was, I sort of started to unpack what had happened to me. And that was fully sort of when I was able to understand what actually happened.
We had very brief discussions about my childhood, and I expressed that I'd always felt sort of uncomfortable with girls, and that I had mostly male friends. And I talked about my discomfort with the idea of growing and to be a grown woman.
That was sort of the very surface-level conversations we had, and I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria on our first meeting, but I had only been— Diagnosed by who? Olson Kennedy.
It was around 30 minutes to an hour. It was pretty short. And she spoke with my parents as well. But by the time I was diagnosed, I had only been living as trans for about three months. But the diagnostic criteria is actually six months.
We had multiple clinical discussions. I don't actually know how many times I saw her. All the talk about gender was never beyond social setting. It was never about how I was feeling. It was more about how I wanted to be perceived.
Right, I believe it was pretty shortly after, maybe a month or so, I started seeing Landon because she had referred me to her. And we had sort of similar discussions, and she kept affirming the idea that I was somehow inherently male, and that was the root of my discomfort. Okay.
It was very, very surface level. And it was all about what I wanted in the future, which for me at the time was very difficult to figure out. And obviously, I just kind of my dream was I wanted to just be totally dissociated from my body, which is not really a healthy mindset at all. But I didn't really, I wasn't 100% certain if I was like...
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