WATCH: Detransitioner battles to revive landmark malpractice and fraud lawsuit

By Carleen Johnson
The Center Square

A woman at the center of the detransition movement is waiting to find out if a North Carolina appeals court will let her case proceed as she seeks to reinstate medical malpractice claims that could dramatically change accountability standards in gender medicine.

Independent Women ambassador Prisha Mosley, 28, sued her healthcare providers who took part in her gender transition starting when she was just 17. The lawsuit, first filed in 2023, includes claims for medical malpractice, negligence and fraud.

Her case was dismissed on a procedural basis, with the trial court ruling that her claims came too late. The statute of limitations had expired.

In mid-2025, North Carolina enacted legislation extending the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims regarding gender-affirming care. Affected individuals now have up to 10 years to bring a claim after discovering the injury.

The appeal could determine whether individuals harmed by so-called “gender-affirming care” are allowed to seek justice once they fully understand the extent of their injuries, often years later when they are young adults.

In a Tuesday interview with The Center Square, Mosley shared that sexual trauma in her childhood started her down the road to being manipulated by trans activists, therapists and doctors.

“I was sexually assaulted and became pregnant when I was fourteen and miscarried,” said Mosley sharing that she was already struggling with mental health issues at the time.

Mosley got on the social media site Tumblr and connected with trans identifying adults.

“They started telling me that my suffering was because I was trans and that this stuff wouldn’t happen to me if I was a boy and that’s what I just needed to do,” she said. “I believed them. I felt validated and not alone.”

Soon after, the medical interventions began.

“I was quickly put on testosterone at 17,” Mosley said. “And about a year later, I had both of my breasts amputated at 18.”

After posting videos about her transition, she was contacted by Partners for Ethical Care and started learning about detransitioners and others who regretted mutilating their bodies in the name of gender affirming care.

Being very public about her journey has taken a toll.

“It does come at a great cost. You know, I have lost privacy and I’ve been harassed and even doxed. But I honestly think it’s worse and more scary to do nothing and just watch my peers who are being lied to by the same industry and even the same doctors that harmed me,” Mosley said. “Not one of them have lost their jobs or have been fired. They’re still hurting other people, so I’m willing to be a public case study, so other people know what’s coming.”

Mosley and other detransitioners have new momentum on their side, thanks to the recent $2 million Fox Varian detransitioner verdict. A jury in White Plains, New York, ruled on Jan. 30 that two doctors committed medical malpractice by approving and performing a double mastectomy on 16-year-old Fox. The verdict found both professionals legally responsible for violating the standard of care, including by failure to obtain meaningful, informed consent to perform the surgery.

“If successful, Mosley’s case could set a national precedent—ensuring detransitioners are not barred from seeking justice simply because it took time to fully grasp their injuries and the extent of side effects from the chemical and surgical mutilation,” wrote Independent Women in an Apr 13 press release.

Mosley told The Center Square medical professionals encouraging life-altering interventions on juveniles are “selling a lie and a scam.

“I thought that I was having the magical surgery that turned my girl chest into a boy chest because that’s what was sold to me……I didn’t turn into a boy,” she said. “But they’re selling these things. They don’t tell you that you’re getting a double mastectomy and possibly leaving in breast tissues and grafting your nipples and taking everything apart. They don’t tell you that. They say we’re going to make you a boy and it’s such a lie.”

Despite ongoing health complications because of the medications and surgeries Mosley went through, she was able to get pregnant and give birth to a healthy baby boy nearly two years ago.