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Josh Payne, PLLC<\/span>, Ulery\u2019s lawyer, told The Daily Wire he believes the DOJ\u2019s actions in this case do not reflect the Trump administration\u2019s commitment to stopping gender ideology.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Trump Administration is not practicing what it preaches in this particular circumstance,\u201d Payne told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to get a grip on this case and instruct her staff to negotiate with us and try to resolve this case without further burdening the court,\u201d Payne told The Daily Wire. \u201cThis is not what federal tax dollars should be spent on to defend. It\u2019s bad enough tax dollars were used to fund the mistreatment Layton experienced at the federally-funded clinic. The administration should be protecting vulnerable people like Layton, not fighting them.\u201d<\/p>\n The DOJ told The Daily Wire it is \u201cfundamentally opposed\u201d to gender ideology and stated that Ulery filed her claims outside the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Department is fundamentally opposed to woke gender ideology and is using every legal and law enforcement tool available to protect youth from being mutilated under the guise of \u2018care.\u2019 Any suggestion otherwise is patently false,\u201d a DOJ spokesperson told The Daily Wire. \u201cAs the Department has stated through filings and to counsel, the U.S. has moved to dismiss Ms. Ulery\u2019s case because her claims are procedurally barred by the statute of limitations and failure to exhaust.\u201d<\/p>\n Ulery\u2019s legal team argued the statute of limitations should be extended because the tort occurred when she could not realize she\u2019d been harmed due to her incapacitated mental state, court documents<\/a> show.<\/p>\n \u201cDr. Rafferty and others at Thundermist misled Layton into believing the testosterone would cure her mental health problems. She had no reason to think the testosterone could harm her. It was only when she heard stories of other detransitioners that she discovered testosterone can harm women like her,\u201d Payne told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the people that I was surrounded by were essentially people who were dissociated from reality, which was certainly not helpful in the circumstance that I was in,\u201d Ulery told The Daily Wire. \u201cNo one even presented me with the idea that healing was possible.\u201d<\/p>\n The lawsuit describes that Ulery escaped a cult from which she suffered 18 years of \u201cphysical, sexual, and psychological torment\u201d and later sought the help of a therapist for her severe Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her therapist \u201cbegan convincing Layton that she was a transgender man and in need of further medicalization\u201d and referred her to Thundermist HC<\/a> for sex-rejecting medical treatment, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n