During President Donald Trump’s first term, Prisha Mosley said she believed she would be killed in a “trans genocide.”

Mosley, an ambassador for the Independent Women’s Forum, said she was swept up in panic surrounding Trump’s plans regarding the LGBT+ community, especially transgender individuals. That group, she said, had created a fearful discourse about how Trump could potentially use the law to harm them.

“I thought I was one of the people he’d want to round up and kill, just like the Holocaust, and all of these horrible myths and rumors that are going around,” Mosley said Wednesday. “The truth is that I was a suicidal child being told by adults on the left that adults on the right wanted to kill me, and I believed them because I was suicidal.”

Mosley now identifies as a “detransitioner,” or an individual who has halted and reversed the progress of changing their gender. She says she now has a different view of the president and his actions toward the LGBT+ community.

On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order to cut federal support for gender transitions for individuals under the age of 19, reversing a Biden-era policy. That move followed a similar order last week barring transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military.

These orders, Mosley said, illustrates how significantly the transgender movement has changed.

“The movement started out as ‘be kind,’ and nobody wants to make someone feel distressed with their natal sex or uncomfortable or display the symptoms that are being displayed in public,” she said. “But enabling is not the answer and I think that we’ve learned that the hard way it was the ignorance and the weaponization of empathy.”

Transgender people, Mosely added, can experience a significant amount of distress for many reasons. She said she now supports Trump’s actions given her experience as a child with gender dysphoria, a medical condition associated with feeling one’s sex and gender are not aligned.

“These are people who are not doing well, and that’s why they need to have access taken away from harmful doctors, especially the children and parents who’ve been lied to and deceived by doctors,” she said of the transgender community. “I worry for them. I feel bad for those who’ve bought into the lie just like detransitioners did in the past, but truly the truth is healing.”

“They view it as an eradication and erasure of transgender people,” she said of the LGBT+ community’s reaction to Trump’s recent orders. “But to believe that you’re trans and have a trans identity, you don’t need for children to be harmed, to validate that.”

Trump’s actions, she said, validate the experiences of detrainsitioners such as herself.

“I think he’s a president of the people,” she said. “He’s really listening and it’s important.”

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