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Young mother facing permanent health problems after gender transition warns she was sold a 'lie'

A young mother who transitioned from female to male as a troubled teenager before detransitioning shared the regret and permanent health problems she now faces as a result.

"I feel like I was an experiment and gender ideology has robbed me of my health in the future," Prisha Mosley said in a new interview cautioning other young people who are considering making the same choice.

Mosley, 26, began transitioning to a male at 17 years old as she was struggling with anorexia, suicidal thoughts and trauma from being raped. She said transgender activists online convinced her that she was unhappy because her "body was fighting to be a boy."

"I was a child, and I believed it. I thought: ‘My body’s not just horrible, it’s entirely wrong. All my problems are because I’m really a boy,’" she told The Daily Mail.

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After sharing these thoughts with a nutritionist treating her anorexia, she was "almost immediately" put in touch with a gender therapist who diagnosed her with gender dysphoria and began prescribing her hormones to start transitioning to male.

She claims medical professionals misled her and her reluctant parents about the risks and pushed them into believing that becoming a boy would solve her problems.

"It was sold as this wonderful thing that would take away all the distress I was feeling," Prisha told The Daily Mail. "But it didn’t help at all. It made me feel worse and I’m left with a lot of shame, guilt and anger."

"I’d fully bought the lie that I was going to become this whole new person, with all my problems behind me. But my problems were still there and I was feeling worse," she added.

She realized a few years later she had made a "terrible mistake," and stopped taking testosterone in order to transition back to female. 

She's now warning others about the chronic health problems she suffers from as a result of these gender treatments and how they have impacted her journey as a new mother.

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After suffering a painful pregnancy as a result of the bodily changes resulting from taking puberty blockers, Mosley gave birth to a healthy baby boy six months ago. But she is unable to breastfeed her child after having a double mastectomy at 18, and she suffers from chronic pain and other health problems.

"The muscles on my neck and shoulders are big and disproportionate, and they burn all the time, like electric shocks," she told The Daily Mail.

"I have to take medications because my pancreas is messed up, I’m insulin-resistant, and I’ve got polycystic ovary syndrome because of the years of taking testosterone," she added. 

Sexual intercourse is also difficult, and she suffers from permanent changes to her voice, among other changes she says she's experienced.

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Mosley is not just sharing her story with the media but is also taking legal action against the medical professionals she claims pushed her into gender transition.

Fox News' Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.

Georgia homeowner arrested after trying to move back into her house inhabited by squatter

A Georgia homeowner was arrested and charged with criminal trespass after she attempted to move back into her own house, which was reportedly inhabited by a squatter, according to WSB-TV.

"To see that woman walk into my mom’s house while I was in the police car, something is wrong with this picture. Something is inherently wrong with this picture," the homeowner, Loletha Hale, told WSB-TV.

The incident occurred on December 9, after Hale reportedly returned to her house to clean up, after a judge ruled in her favor in a months-long battle with Sakemeyia Johnson, the alleged squatter.

The police said, according to WSB-TV, that Hale "executed an illegal eviction and forcibly removed Ms. Johnson’s belongings."

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"I spent the night on a mat on a concrete floor in deplorable conditions. While this woman, this squatter slept in my home," Hale told the outlet.

The police confirmed with the judge that Hale did not have a "signed writ of possession," which would allow Hale to legally evict Johnson.

"She just caught up out of nowhere. She had this guy with him, and I locked the door. I locked the screen door, and he forced himself in telling us to get out," Johnson told the police of the incident. 

Hale told the outlet that she thought Johnson had moved out of the home after she was handed the victory in court in November.

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"I returned on Monday to start painting and she had broken the locks at my property," Hale said.

Johnson has not been charged with any crimes, according to WSB-TV.

Georgia has seen an uptick in squatter cases being brought to court in recent years.

A report by the Pacific Legal Foundation found an upward trend in squatter cases being brought to court beginning in 2019. The number of these cases in Georgia rose from three in 2017 to 50 in 2021. 

In 2023, there were 198 civil court cases involving squatting in the Peach State, according to the report. 

The Clayton County Police Department did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Brazilian lawmakers appeal to international human rights org over state censorship efforts

Some Brazilian legislators, along with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, are challenging Brazil's censorship attempts this year before an international governing body, asking them to condemn the censorship and uphold free speech.

ADF International is representing five Brazilian legislators before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights regarding the country's state-driven censorship crisis and their 39-day ban on X earlier this year. 

Senator Eduardo Girao, as well as members of the Chamber of Deputies Marcel Van Hattem, Adriana Ventura, Gilson Marques and Ricardo Salles, are asking the Commission to act swiftly to hold Brazil accountable for its free speech obligations and expose the country's alleged censorial efforts. 

Van Hattem said Brazil has seen an egregious silencing of political voices, citizens, journalists or anyone else who might share different viewpoints from the government in recent years. He said this includes Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who ordered the "immediate, complete and total suspension of X’s operations" in the country on Aug. 30 after the platform refused to comply with government orders to shut down accounts it has singled out for censorship.  

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"This is a major violation of all Brazilians' free speech and expression rights. We can't afford to lose Brazil to authoritarianism, which is why I am taking my case to the international level with the help of ADF International," Van Hattem said. "These attempts to silence and censor cannot be allowed to stand."  

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has jurisdiction over Brazil as a State Party to the American Convention on Human Rights, which protects freedom of speech, including prohibitions on prior restraint or censoring expression before it has occurred, as well as special protections for political speech. 

The legislators are claiming violations of their rights under the Convention, including their freedom of expression and equal protection under the law, as a result of escalating state censorship. They argue censorship has been on the rise in Brazil since 2019 and recently came to a head during X's ban ahead of elections earlier this year. 

The legislators noted that state-sponsored censorship, including the 39-day ban of X, is "disproportionate and of dubious legal basis" and "has affected the conventional rights of the Victims in a direct, particular, and serious way," according to the legal challenge they filed with the Commission.  

The petition goes on to say that the country’s X blockade "violated the rights of more than twenty million people in Brazil who are users of the platform, having prevented them from accessing the dissemination and reception of information during that time."

Julio Pohl, ADF International’s lead legal counsel on the case, said Brazilian authorities blatantly clamped down on the free speech rights of over 20 million Brazilians by shutting down X ahead of the national elections. 

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"While the ban was eventually lifted, the fact remains that millions of Brazilians, including the five legislators now taking their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, were subjected to unlawful censorship during a critical time in their country," he said. "Censorship has no place in a free society, and it’s time for the Commission to intervene and condemn the vast and ongoing violations of free speech being perpetrated by Brazilian authorities." 

Eduardo Girao, senator for Brazil and party to the petition, echoed a similar sentiment, arguing that despite the ban's lift, Brazil is still facing a very serious censorship problem. 

"While our constitution protects our rights to speak and express ourselves freely as citizens of Brazil, Brazilians throughout the country are afraid to share their beliefs for fear of persecution and punishment," he said. "We must push back against censorship in our country, and it is my hope that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will fulfill its obligation to condemn the human rights violations that are taking place in our country."  

In September, over 100 individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, journalist Michael Shellenberger, five US Attorneys General and Senior UK, US, European and Latin American politicians and professors, signed an open letter to the Brazilian Congress, demanding an end to the "censorship crisis" in which X was banned nationwide in the South American country. Owner Elon Musk previously thanked the Commission and ADF International for intervening in Brazil, following its ban of X.

Mike Benz, a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the free speech watchdog organization, the Foundation For Freedom Online, appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast earlier this month, where he discussed the so-called "censorship industrial complex." He said U.S. agencies, including the State Department, have pressured Brazil to adopt censorship laws as part of a broader strategy to counter populist movements globally and "effectively control every election or at least tilt every election around the world."

"They've sprawled this into 140 countries and Trump is going to run into every single regional desk at the State Department, every single equity at the Pentagon, arguing that if you don't allow us to continue this censorship work, it will undermine national security because it will allow Russian favored narratives to win the day in the Ivory Coast, in Chad, in Niger and Brazil and Venezuela and Central and Eastern Europe," he said. 

"You're going to have the State Department argue that if we don't have this counter-misinformation capacity, then extremists will win elections around the world or populists will win the election around the world," he added. "And that will undermine the power of our democratic institutions, essentially our programming, our assets in the region, and they've built this enormous capacity."

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Benz discussed how U.S. funding of NGOs like the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) have helped implement censorship frameworks in countries like Brazil. 

"This CEPPS program is basically in large part the reason that the Brazil censorship state was erected," he said. "This came a little bit later in the game, but it's a spawn out of this NED [National Endowment for Democracy] censorship network. This [was] explicitly created by the CIA director, self-confessed effectively, CIA cutout."

"What CEPPS does is they manage an umbrella portfolio of all of the censorship institutions that they've capacity built in a region," he added. "So capacity building is a phrase in statecraft that effectively means building up an asset so that it has the capability to be instrumentalized by the U.S. State Department."

Tomás Henríquez, director of advocacy for Latin America, told Fox News Digital that the state-sponsored clampdown on free speech is deplorable and must come to a swift end. He called out the "censorship industrial complex," adding it demands a response from the very institutions mandated to uphold free speech and free expression. 

"As governments across the globe are finding ways to sneak censorship into free societies, we are glad to see lawmakers and free speech advocates push back, exposing the web of actors that collude to restrict speech," he said. 

"Mike Benz recently spoke out against the ‘censorship industrial complex’ on the Joe Rogan podcast, exposing the various U.S. actors that have fueled censorship Brazil. Benz is right to call out this egregious act of foreign interference," he added. "The US should be doing everything in its power to promote free speech, not drive censorship abroad."

Why coddling our children ultimately hurts them

As the mother of a 10-year-old, I frequently feel the threat of social media creeping its way into his life. So far my husband and I have avoided giving him a phone. His only laptop is a school-issued ChromeBook with prison-tight safety elements and no access to adult or inappropriate sites. 

But after producing the film "The Coddling of the American Mind," I started to realize that I was putting far too much attention on the enemy outside. Inside of our young people’s heads, there is a battleground as well. The book, brilliantly written by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, examines those battles and offers strategies and tactics to survive them. 

In making this film we interviewed an array of Gen Z-ers, some of whom were still in college at the time. While it’s normal for anyone to feel a certain level of insecurity when entering college, it seems like today’s college campus creates its own battleground in some of the most personal  areas: Who will be my friends? What activities should I participate in? What classes should I take? 

These common questions now seemed to be loaded with a sense of peril: "Choose the correct peer groups and causes, and you’ll be fine. Otherwise, get ready to be ostracized."

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These sharp students devote so much energy to not getting canceled and proving they have the "correct" world view. That makes them less focused on more important things – such as embracing discomfort and hearing different points of view – that will help them in the "real world."

And in the midst of this battleground, there is the strange presence of "over protection" – administrators and professors go out of their way to help students avoid the very things that will make them stronger. It’s like watching a military weakening its soldiers. 

At a screening of our film at Duke University, I was saddened to hear from a professor there that most kids these days scrub or erase most of their social media posts and pictures upon graduation on the off chance they’ll be dug up and hurt them when it’s time to find employment. 

But I also completely understood – your past is not just captured in Polaroids and yearbooks anymore. A past version of you that was just being a silly kid or experimenting, could assassinate your future self’s reputation. But by engaging in self-censorship, they are putting crucial parts of their lives on the cutting room floor before they’ve really lived life. 

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So making this film forced me to shift my focus from the impending social media threat looming over our child and his friends to paying closer attention to how he thinks, what bothers him and how he handles disagreement. 

It also forced me to examine how my own mind works. After all, we largely teach our kids by example and if I’m vulnerable to common cognitive distortions, I have to practice how I handle them. Anxiety, paranoia, catastrophizing – these are not age-specific maladies, but challenges we all face at some point. And they typically don’t just go away for most people. 

We must put our negative thoughts on trial. The prosecuting attorney has to prove everything is as bad as your mind tells itself it is. Where is the evidence that I am a loser overall because I didn’t get one gig? Or that this friend hates me now because she was slow to respond to my last text (welcome to my personal mind reading and catastrophizing!).

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Social media is an ever-evolving threat and I see little value in it for young kids. But it’s unavoidable. Even if our son doesn’t get a phone until he’s 15, he is surrounded by kids who have them. He’s surrounded by older siblings to those friends who will inevitably show him something disturbing. He is living in a culture that pushes political agendas in materials, such as children’s books and cartoons, that should remain innocent. 

My maternal instinct to protect him from everything is not only completely unrealistic, it will hurt him in the long run. My time as a mother is much better spent equipping him with the skill of crossing a busy road by himself rather than hovering my hand over his until we get to the other side. 

D.C. restaurant server fired after comments about refusing service to some Trump officials

A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials.

"I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people," Suzannah Van Rooy, a server at Beuchert's Saloon on Capitol Hill, told the Washingtonian this week. "It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them."

Her remarks were part of a report about whether there would be local "resistance" to certain Trump figures when they were in public settings again after several high-profile incidents during his first term. They included then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders being ejected from a restaurant in Lexington, Va., and protesters swarming then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a D.C. Mexican establishment.

"People were a lot more motivated the first time around to do those kinds of shows of passion. This time around, there is kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance," Van Rooy said, according to the Washingtonian. "But I hope that people still do stand up to this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior."

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According to a review of her LinkedIn page on Friday, which has since been taken down, Van Rooy listed her duties as doing daily operations, messaging strategies for the restaurant, developing relationships with influencers, and managing in-house events for political figures and VIPs. 

Her page also said she worked as an organizer for Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke's failed run for governor in 2022.

Beuchert's Saloon told Fox News Digital that Van Rooy's remarks were "reprehensible" and she had been fired for violating their "zero-tolerance policy on discrimination."

Beuchert's said the former employee was a part-time server and not a manager. It put out statements on social media condemning her remarks after being made aware of them on Thursday.

"Recent comments made by a member of staff who had no authority to speak on behalf of our entire restaurant have been, quite rightly, flagged as inappropriate, hostile, intolerant, and unacceptable. This staff member does NOT speak for us as a restaurant," Beuchert's initial statement on Thursday said.

"After the inauguration in January, we will begin serving our fourth administration as a neighborhood restaurant on Capitol Hill open to all and welcoming to all. We have always been a safe space for all. Everyone, especially anyone who feels prejudged or misunderstood, will always find friendly service and a sympathetic ear at Beuchert’s Saloon. Again, we deeply apologize for the comments made by a member of staff. They are NOT representative of our restaurant and do not reflect how we operate as a business, and how proud we are to be a gathering place on Capitol Hill."

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By Friday, the restaurant said it had decided to dismiss the server because of this incident, calling her comments and subsequent behavior, "unforgivable." It also said she had signed on to the restaurant's social media accounts to speak on behalf of the restaurant without authorization.

"Not only do Ms. Van Rooy’s comments clearly violate our zero-tolerance policy on discrimination, but her decision to sign into our social media accounts in the middle of the night to post her own rhetoric in wildly offensive responses to comments is a further breach of conduct and protocol. She has no authority to speak on our behalf, and her comments do not reflect the positions of over twenty other people who make up our staff," the Friday statement read.

"For these reasons as well as the sheer dismay and disgust we feel at her unforgivable behavior, Ms. Van Rooy has been dismissed immediately. Our staff and families (many of whom are personally offended by Ms. Van Rooy’s comments about them) are still reeling from what Ms. Van Rooy said and did, and we as a restaurant are simply horrified to be associated with base prejudice."

The comment went on to urge the entire restaurant not to be blamed for her rogue actions.

"We are still the same restaurant known for its warm service and friendly staff, and hope you will all visit us soon. We look forward to serving you. All of you," it wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to Van Rooy for comment.

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