By Yvette Harding –
After having her body permanently altered by ’gender affirming’ surgeries and drugs, Cristina Hineman realized that she made a mistake. She still wanted to be a woman.
“I had the realization this never should have happened,” Hineman told Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). “Pieces of my body are missing.”
Hineman, now 20, is struggling with the consequences of being misled into thinking that she was transgender.
Hineman grew up in a happy, healthy, family where she was homeschooled in her early years. Later, she was enrolled in a public high school for her freshman year and was introduced to different ‘gender identities’ by her friend group.
Along with that, she said that she had been heavily influenced by pro-trans content online. At 17 she discovered she has Asperger’s Syndrome, according to IWF.
She quickly began to identify as nonbinary and then trans. Shortly after turning 18, Hineman went to Planned Parenthood to get testosterone to change her voice and parts of her body.
“I was prescribed testosterone the day of the appointment,” Hineman said, “She talked about some of the risks with me in a very kind of nonchalant way.”
A year later, Hineman was operated on by a plastic surgeon to receive a double mastectomy. He was the closest and cheapest alternative she found. He told her he had been doing “female to male” surgeries for 15 years.
Usually when getting a surgery you would expect there to be a pre-op appointment, but Hineman didn’t have one. Immediately before the surgery, the doctor handed her a Kleenex box to draw the size of the nipple grafts she wanted.
Hineman said that after the surgery “there was a brief period of euphoria” before she truly started to understand what she did.
She said the next day, after seeing an attractive actress on her tv, she had an anxiety attack, realizing she made a mistake.
Six weeks later, Hineman began wearing more feminine clothes and stopped taking her testosterone.
She realized that she isn’t able to go back, that now if she has biological children, she won’t be able to breastfeed.
Hineman returned to the nurse practitioner who prescribed her the testosterone at Planned Parenthood and asked her what would happen to her body.
The nurse practitioner answered that she did not know, that it’s different for everyone.
“I just realized like ‘wow this woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about’”
All of this crushed her.
“I feel like I am missing out on a very fundamental part of a female sexual experience, and it is something that is at the forefront of my mind basically every time I do anything of that nature.”
Hineman is now suing Planned Parenthood for giving her drugs without appropriate consultation.
“In her lawsuit, filed in April 2024 against Planned Parenthood and a number of other providers, she detailed being heavily influenced by pro-trans content online, being surrounded by trans-identifying peers, and being betrayed by health professionals who failed to treat her underlying conditions,” according to IWF.
“These included severe mental health issues and Asperger’s Syndrome, which she was only diagnosed with at 17, after she had already begun identifying as “trans.” When the COVID-19 pandemic brought lockdowns and remote schooling, Hineman said it was ‘the final nail in the coffin’ for her spiraling mental health and social insecurities.”
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About this writer: Yvette Harding studies at the Lighthouse Christian Academy near Century City, CA.
