Miles Yardley became ‘Salome’ at the tender age of 15 after being put on hormones very quickly after an initial consultation where he thought he might want to identify as female because his peers at school led him to believe he was trans. 

He also said he wasn’t comfortable being labelled gay. He went along with the identity without understanding the consequences. 

He now says it was rushed and underlying issues were not explored.

He spent ten years in his female identity, even becoming a successful model in the process. He has since desisted and begun detransitioning after being diagnosed with serious health issues due to experimental treatments in an attempt to appear female.

He is now suing the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for medical malpractice. He recently discovered he has pituitary adenoma – a type of brain tumor – and has hypothyroidism. Both conditions have suspected links to hormone therapy.

“I realized that I’m hurting myself. I’m poisoning myself. I’m sterilizing myself. The normal things that bring meaning to normal people’s lives I’m shut off from because I can’t have children in this state. I can’t do the normal things that bring normal people meaning,” Yardley says of the moment he began to question the experts and trans ideology.

He says at 15 he could not conceive the serious possible side effects and with hindsight and adulthood he recognises the irreversible harm done to him in the name of gender ideology. 

“I was really crazy on the hormones,” he said.

“I was mentally unstable and cognitively impaired. And generally fatigued, tired, not strong at all in ways that I’m only now coming to really understand.”

As is the case with most people who decide to desist or detransition, doctors have little advice or protocols to follow since the entire industry is built on experimental and off-label use of harmful drugs.

“I’ve asked multiple doctors for advice, and they don’t know what to do,” Yardley says on stopping hormone treatment, a process that “makes you feel [physically] awful. It’s been difficult.”

Yardley is extremely gracious to his mother, the medical industry and even himself as he deals with the regret. He has become a christian and believes exercising grace and forgiveness is essential in walking out his catholic faith.

“But I think it has a lot to do with an overreach of professionals and a lot to do with money. Hospitals make a lot of money from these procedures. They benefit from having lifelong patients, which is what transgender people are. You need the hormones to maintain the identity.”

“If you’re a gender-nonconforming kid, you should be allowed to be yourself. I think that was the biggest problem. I didn’t feel like I could be confident in who I was. And if that person happens to like singing and dancing and cooking and Barbie dolls, who really cares? You can be a boy who likes that,” Yardley says.

“At the time, nobody in my life told me that was possible.”

There will be many lawsuits over the coming years as these children become adults and realise the lies and deception they were subject to. No one can change sex, it is impossible. The treatments simply mask or mimic while at the same time cause irreversible harm. It is a massive medical scandal that should never have been allowed to happen.

^{Image source: X: In April 2024, Yardley was diagnosed with pituitary adenoma — a type of brain tumor. He also has hypothyroidism. Both conditions have suspected links to hormone therapy. @DollPariah/X}