A young woman who “transitioned” at 18 years old with help from Planned Parenthood is now suing the abortion giant for irresponsibly providing her with testosterone.
The Free Press reported that Cristina Hineman is a plaintiff in the first “detransitioner” lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, suing for medical malpractice. According to Hineman, she had previously been dealing with mental health issues like self-harm, depression, and anxiety, all of which were made worse during the COVID-19 lockdown. She also has autism.
YouTubers made her think that changing gender identity was the answer to solve her problems, and she went to Planned Parenthood just days after her 18th birthday to avoid needing parental consent.
Hineman told the Free Press that the initial consultation at Planned Parenthood, where she received a prescription for testosterone gel, took under 30 minutes. It led her to make an irreversible decision that she later realized she was “brainwashed” into.
“A lot of people say that adults should be able to do whatever they want. But if you have mental illness that’s clouding your view, or you’re so misinformed about what gender dysphoria even means, then you cannot consent to such invasive treatments,” she told the Free Press.
After continuing hormone treatment for a year and undergoing a full mastectomy to remove her breasts at 19 years old, she said she had “the biggest anxiety attack of my entire life” and “regretted everything.” Shortly after, she decided to embrace her female identity.
According to the Free Press, Hineman’s case is one of several detransitioner cases beginning to pop up across the country, all suing for medical malpractice.
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At least one other lawsuit is against Planned Parenthood. Though it was founded to provide contraceptives and, later, abortions, in recent years the abortion giant has suddenly become the country’s leading outlet for gender-confused women to obtain testosterone to begin their “transitions.”
According to the Free Press, insurance claim information has shown that at least 40,000 patients went to Planned Parenthood to obtain gender transition hormones in 2023. The number of patients has risen tenfold since 2017. Roughly 40% of the patients seeking the hormones were between 18 and 22 years old.
Planned Parenthood’s journey to include gender transition “treatment” among its numerous services began in 2005, when a clinic in Santa Cruz, California, began offering a program aimed at men claiming to be women. The Free Press said that the program’s opening was “long before de rigueur pronouns, before puberty blockers were a culture war weapon, and a full decade before the still-unexplained spike in female teens across the Western world identifying as trans.”
The program grew under the direction of Dr. Jen Hastings, a family physician working at Planned Parenthood. In 2015, two other physicians who also advocated for hormone treatments in prepubescent children began to advise the abortion giant to include more “transgender” programs among its services.
Now, years later, insurance claim data provided to the Free Press shows that roughly one in six teens and young adults seeking gender hormone treatment in the U.S. obtained it at Planned Parenthood.
Dr. Vanessa Cullins, who helped start Planned Parenthood’s transgender services program, told the Free Press that she was concerned about the way teens and young adults are now treated when they seek gender hormones.
“We have to be vigilant when we’re giving powerful medications to young people, and these are powerful medications,” she told the Free Press, adding that a lack of information could turn into a “nightmare” situation for several of those same young people.
She also suggested that 30 minutes would not be enough time to properly assess a person’s desire to obtain the hormones and inform them of the risks involved with taking them.
According to the Free Press, Hineman regrets going through her “transition” and now wants to spread awareness of other options to teens and young adults feeling like gender hormones or surgeries are the only answers.
“The answers are not just transition or suicide,” she told the Free Press. “There are ways to work through these feelings without altering your body.”
LifeNews Note: Hannah Hiester writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
