Detransitioner accuses surgeon of performing double mastectomy on her at 14
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A detransitioner who had a double mastectomy in her youth openly confronts the surgeon who performed the surgery, accusing him in an open letter of having her healthy breasts removed without adequately addressing the underlying causes of her condition.
Claire Abernathy’s Thursday letter plastic surgeon Dr. Alan Dulin details his sadness over the surgery and describes the physical and emotional pain he continues to experience years later.
“You took advantage of a little girl’s confusion and the family’s trust to perform unnecessary, disfiguring surgery on a child who had just entered puberty,” Abernathy wrote. “You committed an act of violence that I must wear on my skin for the rest of my life.”
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Claire Abernathy, who went through the transition process after starting her gender transition at the age of 14, shares her experience. (Independent Women)
In a recent column for Fox News, Abernathy wrote She said she was given testosterone at age 14 and eight months later surgeons performed a double mastectomy on her.
“I’m not that quiet, defenseless fourteen-year-old kid anymore. I’m a woman living in the wreckage of your carelessness, and I’ll spend the rest of my life making sure people know exactly what kind of ‘medicine’ you’re administering,” Abernathy said.
Dulin is described on the American Institute of Plastic Surgeons’ website as a board-certified plastic surgeon “serving patients in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Plano, Frisco, and Dallas.”
The site says Dulin focuses on cosmetic plastic surgery and “approaches plastic surgery as a collaborative process rooted in education, transparency, and individualized planning. His goal is to help patients make informed decisions that promote both confidence and long-term satisfaction.”
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Plastic surgeons perform surgery. (Getty Images)
One October report Abernathy’s double mastectomy surgery was performed “sometime between eighth and ninth grade” at the American Institute of Plastic Surgeons in Plano, The Texas Insider tells me. The surgery took place after just a 15-minute consultation.
“I want you to know the reality of the ‘success’ you achieved on that operating table,” Abernathy wrote. “I had to watch as the skin of my nipples, which you cut off, removed the fat from, and then transplanted back onto my skin, turned black and fell off my body. I was a child, and parts of me were literally rotting away because of your ego.”
“I now live each day with a numb, hollow chest covered in the disfiguring scars you chose to carve into me,” Abernathy continued. “I am forced to deal with constant, agonizing reminders of the damage you have done. There is an electric current constantly humming and pulsing under my skin, a manifestation of the trauma you have created and stitched into my nerves.”
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A doctor holds two injection vials labeled testosterone and estrogen, used for hormone therapy. (iStock)
“I made a big name for myself by making sure you would never be forgotten,” Abernathy wrote. “I have already publicly named you before the Federal Trade Commission and the United States Senate. I have placed your name on the record as a warning for safekeeping in the halls of power.”
“Your name will go down in history alongside mine as the man who forced me to find my voice by trying to destroy my body,” he added. “The whole world will know what you did. I’ll make sure of it.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Dulin, the American Institute of Plastic Surgeons and the Federal Trade Commission for comment but did not immediately hear back.
