Clementine Breen

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.

I believe she's just a family and general therapist, but she works specifically with trans youth. Okay, okay.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Exactly.

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.