Strongin, now 24, joins a growing number of “detransitioners” who lament the “gender-affirming care” such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgery they received as teens and young adults. …Strongin was distrustful of her parents, especially her mom, and she blames “trans influencers” on social media for planting those seeds of doubt. “It’s definitely really cult-like,” she said. “I thought these online communities were my adopted family. That’s one of the tactics: ‘Oh, if your mom doesn’t accept you, I’m your mom now.’” Lonely and confused, Strongin said the most important message she needed to hear was that “there was nothing wrong with me.”
