Gender Fluid Teen Pushes Back Against 'False' Viral Story Their Mom Gave to Conservative Outlet
A story that went viral among conservatives on Monday about a gender fluid teen in Missouri whose mother regrets giving them puberty blockers has unsurprisingly fallen apart after the teen herself, who uses she/they pronouns, came forward to say much of it is false—and that the story was published without her input or consent.
The piece, published in former New York Times writer Bari Weiss’ new conservative outlet the Free Press, claims that when Casey was 14, the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital pressured their mother into signing off on a puberty blocker called Supprelin to “relieve his psychological distress” (the outlet deliberately misgenders Casey throughout). Based on an interview with Casey’s mother, Free Press writer Emily Yoffe—whom, as we’ve noted, has a penchant for writing pieces about sexual assault that “tend to conclude that the accuser was wrong, lying, or drunk—wrote that “within a semester, Casey went from all As and Bs to a report card dotted with Ds and Fs,” “found it impossible to get out of bed,” and “missed so much school that it triggered an official meeting about his truancy that included a circuit court judge. He gained more than 30 pounds.”
Casey, now 16, strongly refuted the story in a Twitter thread Tuesday, saying it’s full of outright “false perceptions” by her mother and that Yoffe did not seem interested in hearing her side of the story.
“I said that I wanted to read it first,” Casey wrote. “When I read the draft I was disgusted with what the reporter and my mom had made my experience out to be.”
Casey continued: “The article makes it out that my mother had no say in the implant of the Supprelin. This is completely false.”
https://jezebel.com/gender-fluid-teen-pushes-back-against-false-viral-story-1850301057
Read on. Why would her mom twist her story so much?
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