Jonni Skinner is getting a lot of attention for his takedown of California Sen. Scott Weiner while speaking at the state Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Skinner, a detransitioner who was referred to a gender therapist after being influenced by online personalities amid a struggle with feeling like a “normal” boy, argued against Weiner’s SB 934. The bill would allow those who have undergone “conversion therapy” to pursue malpractice lawsuits, but the broad definition has critics crying foul.
The legislation’s definition of such therapy includes “sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts,” which many argue could open up many therapists to lawsuits for addressing gender during their sessions.
Skinner spoke from his own experience of being “diagnosed with high-functioning autism at a young age,” according to Fox News. Growing up, he struggled with not feeling like a “normal” boy and enjoying more feminine interests. The discomfort he experienced with his own body led him to be influenced to change his own gender by some online influencers that he looked up to. Rather than being pushed to examine the root of his feelings, Skinner revealed that he was affirmed by the adults around him, and told he would feel “normal” by medically transitioning. This led him down a path of change that he described as “poison.”
“The medical and mental health providers didn’t bother to ask why I felt the way I did,” he told Wiener. “They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones, arresting my puberty and messing with my development. The result is I’m a 23-year-old gay man who’s never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in.”
While Skinner’s mother argued against transitioning, medical professionals lectured her on gender dysphoria and how he basically had a “girl brain in a boy body.” Mother and son were told that the only way to help him was to give him hormones. However, the drugs he was taking had a profoundly negative impact on his body, including “fainting spells, painful muscle spasms and urinary problems.”
After an endocrinologist suggested he stop taking the drugs to see if his symptoms improved, Skinner went down “a rabbit hole of research essentially” that resulted in him ending his treatment in 2023. Unfortunately, he still experiences several consequences such as “urinary problems and sexual dysfunction,” which is part of the reason he’s decided to be such a vocal member of the detransitioner movement. He argues that the bill will negatively impact homosexual people, and that therapists should be able to discuss gender issues with clients without fear of being targeted by malpractice lawsuits.
“In all those years, if one therapist would have just talked with me about the origins of my distress, instead of just affirming me and suggesting, you know, further medical intervention is the only solution to me, perhaps I could have been spared much of what I’m suffering with today,” Skinner said. “And this bill, SB 934, would criminalize therapists for questioning that. They’re not able to, under this bill, question gender identity or really delve with these patients into the underlying causes of their dysphoria. That would be considered conversion therapy under SB 934.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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