Elizabeth Mitchell of The Daily Signal reports that Simon Amaya Price remains undeterred after the Berklee College of Music in Boston forced him to cancel his "Born in the Right Body: Desister and Detransitioner Awareness" presentation.
He had been tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at the private music college and decided to share about how he overcame his own struggles with gender dysphoria while in high school.
But leading up to the Oct. 20 event, Amaya Price received almost 1,000 negative comments on social media, including threats to his physical safety and recommendations that he drop out of school and commit suicide.
The MIT Open Discourse Society ultimately allowed him to host his lecture on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
"Despite many efforts to stop him, he was able to get his message out there, which is that no child is born in the wrong body," says Mitchell.
Amaya Price wanted to transition at age 14, but his father adamantly refused to allow it.
"He's super thankful that he had a father who didn't allow him to transition, but he wants to spread the message that no child should transition," Mitchell relays. "So, regardless of a child's parents' okayness with them transitioning, the children know that you were born in the right body."
She believes hearing a detransitioner's assurances that children will eventually outgrow their gender dysphoria and lead a normal life will give hope to parents.
