Today, North Carolina detransitioner Prisha Mosley filed a motion to reinstate her July 2023 lawsuit against the medical practitioners who encouraged her to pursue transgender procedures as a teenager. This comes after the North Carolina General Assembly extended the statute of limitations for legal cases regarding injuries associated with gender transition procedures.
Last month, the North Carolina General Assembly overrode Governor Josh Stein’s veto of HB 805, enacting it into law. One of the provisions in this bill extended the statute of limitations to ten years for a malpractice action arising out of injury associated with a gender transition procedure.
“This case isn’t just about me — it is about accountability for every individual who was sold irreversible and life-altering lies,” Prisha Mosley said in a news release. “I am incredibly grateful that HB 805 has given me a second chance to be heard and to seek justice for the pain that I have had to endure. A longer statute of limitations is only fair and opens the pathway to justice for many victims, as recent studies and detransitioners alike say that the average time it takes to recognize the transition as harmful is seven years.”
Background on Prisha’s Lawsuit
After experiencing trauma and multiple mental health challenges as a teenager, Prisha was told by her medical providers that transitioning her gender to become a man would help her.
“They told me that changing my body to look like a boy’s body would cure my mental health problems. They told me that injecting large amounts of testosterone into my female body would be good for me. They also encouraged me to undergo surgery to remove my healthy breasts,” She wrote in a Fox News op-ed.
Now that she has fully detransitioned, Prisha has been seeking to hold her medical providers accountable for their actions. According to her lawyer, the lawsuit she filed in 2023 was the first detransitioner lawsuit to proceed to court.
House Bill 805
Sponsored by Representatives Neal Jackson (R-Moore), Sarah Stevens (R-Surry), and Jennifer Balkcom (R-Henderson), HB 805 includes a variety of pro-family provisions in addition to extending the statute of limitations for detransitioner legal cases, including:
- Defining “male” and “female” based on biological sex in state statute, administrative rules, and state regulations;
- Prohibiting non-consensual posting of explicit images online;
- Prohibiting the use of state funds to provide puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgical gender transition procedures to prisoners in the State prison system;
- Directing local boards of education to allow a student or a student’s parent to excuse the student from an activity that would “impose a substantial burden on the student’s religious beliefs” or “invade the student’s privacy by calling attention to the student’s religion;”
- Directing local boards of education to maintain a searchable web-based catalog of library books available at each school in the local school system and allowing parents to identify any books their child may not borrow; and
- Directing local school systems to adopt policies prohibiting students of the opposite sex from sharing sleeping quarters during school-authorized events.
HB 805 was vetoed by Governor Stein in July, and was then overridden by the General Assembly on July 29th, 2025 with a vote of 72-48 in the State House and 30-19 in the State Senate.
Conclusion
NC Family is excited to see actions being taken to aid those harmed by gender transition procedures and to protect others from being harmed in the future. We are so thankful for everyone who worked to support the passage of HB 805, and for Prisha’s willingness to stand up against those pushing this harmful agenda.