The Daily Signal By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
A college student who formerly identified as transgender faced threats, harassment, and cyberbullying for attempting to host an event on his college campus intended to raise awareness about the dangers of gender transition procedures for minors.
Simon B. Amaya Price, 20, was tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at Berklee College of Music, a private music college in Boston. He decided to host a presentation on Oct. 20 titled “Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness” to share his own struggles with gender dysphoria in high school and how he overcame them.
After receiving almost 1,000 negative comments on social media, including messages threatening his physical safety and recommending he drop out of school and commit suicide, the liberal arts college’s administration forced him to cancel the presentation, Amaya Price told The Daily Signal.
“The determination and the willingness of these people to go out of their way to essentially harass, bully, and slander me is really remarkable and does not make me feel safe on campus,” Amaya Price said.
Amaya Price is a “desister,” someone who identified as transgender, but decided to live in accordance with his biological gender instead of undergoing medical interventions.
Amaya Price, who has been diagnosed with autism, experienced social ostracism and a mental health crisis in ninth grade, leading him to decide his problem was that he was actually a girl.
He told his therapist, who affirmed his gender dysphoria and referred him to Boston Children’s Hospital for hormones and surgeries. Amaya Price’s pediatrician told him and his father that they could choose between having a “dead son or a living daughter,” and that then-14-year-old Amaya Price would kill himself if denied hormones and surgery.
Thankfully, Amaya Price said, his father immediately shut down the possibility of a medical transition…
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