Last year, the Independent Women’s Forum published an interview with 24-year-old Prisha Mosley, a young woman who detransitioned after undergoing severe social and physical changes to make herself appear more like a man .

Her story is gut-wrenching. Having suffered from mental health issues from a very young age, Mosley struggled with self-hatred and self-harm for years. At 15, she discovered transgenderism and thought it would be the solution to the bodily discomfort she had been battling. By 17, she had been prescribed testosterone. At 18, she had both of her breasts removed.

Now, Mosley has deep scars across her chest that remind her she’ll likely never be able to have children of her own, and across her arms from the moments her despair and confusion drove her to attempt suicide. She also suffers from vaginal atrophy and dryness, which make basic bodily functions painful.

It’s no wonder Mosley’s story has been censored by YouTube. The interview, which garnered nearly 100,000 views on the platform, can no longer be viewed in news stories or on platforms other than YouTube. A notice on the video reads, “This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube.” IWF believes the age restriction was triggered by a scene in which Mosley lifts up her shirt to show the scars from her double mastectomy.

YouTube’s concerns might be justifiable if they were fairly enforced. But there are plenty of videos with a pro-transgender message that have not been censored at all, including ones that prominently feature double mastectomy scars, as the Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan pointed out.

More likely, the activists running influential institutions such as YouTube recognize the threat that stories such as Mosley’s pose to their ideology. Gender activists belligerently insist that social and medical transition are the only options for gender-confused youths, regardless of any pre-existing mental health challenges. But as Mosley has shared, transition is no solution at all — it’s a living hell.

“They lied when they told Mosley she was actually a boy; they lied when they told her that injecting testosterone into her body would solve her numerous, profound mental and psychological health problems,” a lawsuit filed by Mosley against her healthcare providers says. “They lied by omission, withholding critical information from her about the long-term adverse health consequences and permanent damage these treatments would cause her, and failing to inform her of alternative courses of treatment for her psychological problems.”

This is the reality of transgenderism that activists try to hide — the reality of loss, regret, and lifelong pain as a result of choices made by confused and vulnerable children who were too young to understand what they were doing. But the stories of detransitioners are too powerful to ignore, and they will only become more and more frequent as the effects of gender ideology start to take their toll.

Kaylee McGhee White is the editor of Restoring America for the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.