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Prisha Mosley says transition made adult life harder
Her account shows what is at stake for parents as North Carolina’s appeals court weighs whether her lawsuit over treatment can reach a jury.
” Every parent weighing a clinic's advice for a struggling child should read what she says it cost.
Mosley's post, as she wrote it.
Mosley says changing her name and documents made legal paperwork hard, and changing her appearance made dating harder1. Mosley says taking hormones made it hard for her to get pregnant and that she could not deliver naturally; she says surgery made it impossible for her to breastfeed.
Those are the treatments at the center of Mosley v. Emerson, her malpractice, fraud and conspiracy suit against the doctors and counselors involved in her transition. A Gaston County trial judge threw out her claims. The General Assembly then overrode Gov. Josh Stein's veto to enact House Bill 805, which extended the malpractice claim period to 10 years and reaches pending cases3. The North Carolina Court of Appeals heard an hour of arguments on whether that law lets her go to a jury2.
The defendants answer that her suit arrived after the statute of repose, an absolute deadline for filing legal actions, and Dr. Martha Perry's brief says Mosley and her parents consented to testosterone. Mosley's brief answers that she was a mentally ill teenager whose team told her she had a male brain, and the judges pressed the defense on exactly that2. Judge Jefferson Griffin asked whether telling a girl she can grow a penis is even practicing medicine, and Mosley expects a ruling before the end of the year3.
Mosley says the legislature was clear and it is up to the courts to follow the law, and Family Brief agrees3.
These are life-altering treatments. The family is prior to government, and no clinic should talk a parent out of the authority to direct a child's care. Courts owe those parents and children the same seriousness, and should treat the harms as real.