Prisha Mosley - This Affects Me Every Day

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:08]Today we're here with Prisha. I was just wondering if you could give us a little information around your transition history and what brings you here. Yeah, absolutely. So my name is Prisha Mosley.

[00:00:18]I'm a detransitioner. I've been detransitioned for about 3 or 4 years, but I originally identified as trans at about 16 years old. I started being medicalized at that age and then 17 I was on testosterone and just a year later at 18 I had a double mastectomy, which resulted in severe complications almost 10 years later.

[00:00:40]So I am detransitioning as a result of the medical harm that I went through and I'm grateful to be with other detransitioners today. Right. One of the things you mentioned is complications.

[00:00:51]So the title of this event is beyond transition.

[00:00:55]So could you just share a little bit of what maybe your day-to-day life looks like in terms of the most difficult and then also some of the things that maybe do have gratitude for you do enjoy.

[00:01:07]Absolutely. So like I mentioned I am a mother now. I was able to have a child because I was thankfully not put on puberty blockers and after a couple years of infertility I was able to have him. So I spend most of my day just being a mom. I love doing that and it brings me so much joy, but it's really not fair that I have physical limitations due to the transition. I'm in chronic pain from the overgrowth of my muscles and the misshaping of my body from the testosterone. Like I'm larger at the top than the bottom. The atrophy I would say causes the most pain maybe.

[00:01:40]It affect the It's not just vaginal atrophy, but entire pelvic floor atrophy. It affects the way I walk and stand and I'm in a lot of pain that affects my daily day ability to like pick up the baby. He's 22 months now and stuff like that. And the mastectomy of course left me with the inability to really lift up my arms very high or pick up very heavy things. And like there's not enough skin. It's like it stretches and it's wrong. So and and the other thing is you know my baby likes to cuddle with me against my chest and I can't feel him there. And that's really devastating to me, but I remain grateful for the fact that my fertility did come back and I am able to experience a love and freedom and happiness that I used to be afraid of. I never thought that I would be well or happy enough to want children or a family or to even be loved by a partner and now I am. That's great. One of the things I mean so we're talking about the next generation. You have your son.

[00:02:35]Is there anything practical, not ideological, um that you would think needs to shift based on your personal experience with how we explore gender?

[00:02:46]Um to be honest, I think that gender should be abolished. I think the feminists have had it right for quite a while and that gender is just a collection of sexist stereotypes that we use to emulate an idea created by men and women, but what we really are is male and female and there's no wrong way to be either of those things. Just be a good person, express yourself in a healthy and appropriate way and you are what you are.

[00:03:09]One of one final kind of situation I want to ask you about and I cuz I don't think it's spoken enough about.

[00:03:16]One of the things with identifying as a detransitioner perhaps is that you might not have as many much of support as you would before.

[00:03:26]And I don't think people understand how often you get told you must have not been really trans.

[00:03:32]And I was just wondering what what what do you have to say to that in terms of what that impact is to see your former community kind of reject you in that way?

[00:03:42]Well, my former community when they tell me that I'm not I was never really trans, the answer I usually respond with is true. No one is really trans. All of us, whether continually now or in the past, at some point believed a lie and that lie was that humans can change sex and that gender and identity is anything like I said beyond a collection of sexist stereotypes and none of that requires medical information. So I regard my community as not deserving to be defrauded and medically harmed as I was and I feel for them, but I do wish there was more support with detransitioning so that more of my peers who have been harmed by doctors would come out of that life. If you're watching this 5 years from now we're back here 10 we're here for the 10th annual detransitioner awareness day, what do you hope you are talking about then and what's going on in your life in 5 years from now?

[00:04:35]>> Oh my gosh, I really hope I have more kids. That would be wonderful. I'm hoping the same for other friends of mine too, younger ones who haven't quite gotten to that journey in their lives. I hope all of us find that we're able to conceive after the medicalization that was done to us and that our children can be friends. Great. Thank you so much.

[00:04:52]Thank you. Thank you.