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About me
I was a deeply unhappy young man who thought becoming a woman was the answer, heavily influenced by online communities. I took hormones for almost two years, which caused severe health problems and made me feel like my body was falling apart. I realized I could never actually change my sex and that my transition was a form of escapism that left me feeling broken. I stopped the hormones a month ago, and my physical health is already improving. I am finally finding peace by accepting myself as a man.
My detransition story
My whole journey with this started because I was deeply unhappy with myself. I was a young man who felt uncomfortable in my own skin, and I started to believe that becoming a woman was the answer. I now see that a lot of this was influenced by spending too much time in online trans communities. They felt like a dark hole, or even a cult, where any questioning was shut down and called hateful. I was gullible and got sucked into that world.
I thought my desire to be a woman was valid, like I was just seeing women having fun and wanting that for myself. But it was more than that. I had a lot of low self-esteem and I now think it was a form of escapism from my problems. I started taking hormones, and that’s when things got really bad physically. I experienced eczema, terrible intestinal problems, brain fog, and I even lost coordination. It was like my body was falling apart. I did less than two years of HRT, but it was enough to cause serious health complications.
The mental part was just as hard. My whole life became about being trans. It was all I could think about. I realized that no matter what I did, I could never actually change my biological sex. I was just a man poisoning himself, trying to suffocate that reality. It felt humiliating. I went from being a proud person to someone who felt broken and lost all respect for myself. People didn't treat me with the same respect they did before I transitioned.
A big moment for me was when I saw that I was starting to influence people around me to consider transitioning too. That scared me. It made me see how contagious these ideas can be. Part of my healing now involves erasing trans women from my thoughts. I know that sounds harsh, but it’s what I need to do to get better. People would call that repressing, but I’m way happier "repressing" than I was when I was trying to be something I’m not.
I also had to face some uncomfortable truths about my own motivations. I had a nasty, perverted side that found the idea of transformation sexually arousing. Thinking about it now, it seems ridiculous and degrading, not liberating. Transition felt like a punishment, not a solution.
I don’t regret transitioning because it led me to where I am now, which is a place of much better understanding. But I absolutely regret the pain I put myself through. I am a man. That is my physical reality. I can be a husband, a father, a son. I cannot be a woman, a wife, or a mother. Accepting that has been the key to my peace. I’m learning to find contentment in being a man, and my physical health has improved so much since I stopped hormones a month ago.
My thoughts on gender are simple now: biological sex is real, and we can’t change it. Identity is in our mind and it can change, so it’s better to identify with your biological sex because life makes more sense and is much happier that way. The world would be a happier place without having to constantly deal with the confusion that trans ideology brings.
Here is a timeline of my journey:
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| 22 | Started questioning my gender, heavily influenced by online communities. |
| 23 | Began taking testosterone blockers and estrogen. |
| 24 | Experienced severe health issues: eczema, intestinal problems, brain fog, loss of coordination. |
| 24 | Stopped hormones and began detransition after realizing I could never change my sex. |
| 24 | Physical health began to improve within a month of stopping HRT. |
| 24 | Accepted myself as a biological male and began to find peace. |
Top Comments by /u/0030ebi:
I'm one of those people here that are glad that "asking for pronouns" is not a thing in their city.
And a comment on the pics: trans people are very good at playing victms in internet spaces, but IRL, it just gets awkward, I say that because I was there. It is also a problem that you get easily ban for challenging trans-ideology in non-trans spaces, or wait... butchlesbians? Most lesbian subs are full of non-binary / trans, hahawoahawokawhwaokwokewokewokewoke
Yeah, you don't even need to hear about surgeries, there are trans people saying they feel sick after injections or that they don't even know how to do it but they are so willing to risk their lives.
Reddit is also in my opnion, guilty of hosting so many trans subs with poor surveillance and allowing them to recommend FFS and sugeries to each other, convince minors and elders they are trans, no ban, but I can't even link that South Park's episode in which guy get turned into a fake dolphin by a doctor, lol. We detrans have to walk on eggshells in this sub, trans call use "cissies" slurs and insult "cis people" all day.
Enable the mentally ill, censor advice.
That is a good advice but you know how stubborn trans people can be, there are people dying from HRT that prefer to die than to detransition, 😔
I'm lucky I gave up, but I did experience physical ilness such as eczema, intestinal problems, brain fog, motor cordinations problems due to HRT. It got worse with time and I did less 2 years of it.
It all got better as I'm detransitioning for a month or so.
One of the things that caused my detransition was that I saw myself influencing other people around me in becoming trans themselves...
Also part of the treatment of my own gender dysphoria is erasing trans women from my thoughts. It does work and trans people would call It repressing, lol, I'm way happier repressing then.
Yeah I agree, no way transition is good for you just bcs you are aware that it won't actual change your sex, OP.
I believe transition is self-destructive, and I strongly believe that medicine won't ever reach a point where a man or woman can truly live happily as the opposite sex. One can say she is happy because she uses cocaine, but It doesn't mean cocaine is what made that person happy..
Also, adults think different compared to young-adults and teenagers, if OP keeps transitioning, OP will still grow older and probably will struggle to find MEANING in past actions... It will be sad, transition leave a void in our lives...
It prob doesn't go away, some trans people are better at ignoring It.
If you look at trans youtubers, those that are very further in transition, you will noticed their lives is all about being transgender. I mean, yeah, they're youtubers, but Just look at average trans person in public, people don't ignore the fact your trans, even in relationships, this doesn't go unnoticed, the best you will get is it being overlooked.
Once you give up transtion, you start noticing happy things in detransition, and that there is no need to transition other than being mentally deranged. Sorry if it hurts.
It makes no sense when you identify as the opposite sex but you have those characteristics of your sex, then you try to erase them but it is not possible, the result is a life trying to hide and ignore it, which is quite hellish and an unhappy situation. Some are lucky to realize that identity is in our mind, not in our bones or brain, so when you identify as something, it can change if you change your mind, it is better to identify as your sex because then life makes more sense and is much happier.
And this is something I'm learning more and more as my detransition goes on, I didn't had those insights in the beggining.
If you think being a feminine gay man is humiliating wait until you try being trans!
For real, best thing I read today, haha.
Being trans is so humiliating that my personality kinda changed from proud, young and reckless to that of a humble menopausal women that no men wanted to marry 🤣
I can only be a man, this is my physical role in this world, I don't say that from an ideological point of view, I simply noticed it, after years of exploring transition and studying my experience on that. I can be a husband, a father, a male friend, a son, I can be a man. I can't be a woman, a sister, a mother, a wife, I can't be a woman. I'm not saying I will not avoid dating women like a plague, to the point of never becoming a husband, I will, I don't feel joy from being a man, that is just how I avoid punishment.
This is what I noticed... Ugh. Lol. So what did hormones did to my life? Uwuwu? I became a disgrace of a man, not even an ugly woman, not even a woman with a penis, I went from strange peculiar man to a disfigured weird weird unhappy man with erectile disfunction(recovering). Ouch. Transition means transitioning into pain, there is no changing sex.
People used to have some more respect to me, even if I was an unhappy male that had envy towards women, even if I was kinda effiminate. I now hit bottom rock. I don't get the same respct as before.
I'm attempting to recover, but I already dettached myself from the idea of going back to having it as easy as it once was. Whattever bro. At least spiritual growth can compensate my decay as a man.
Transition is self-harm, respect the cruel authority of physical reality... Don't be an experiment against biology, your chances are zero.
My life was always a disgrace of my own, oh, now that I finally have the courage to admit it, because I'm not desperate, will I find some true light? Well I will, I will actually overperform everyone in a spiritual sense, hahahaha
Just accept that you're a biological male.
It took me a lot of jabs from reality to finally get there.
You can't erase the fact your male, you can only suffocate, ignore and oppress it.
I'm much happier to accept people's for their real gender than back in the times I'd join trans people in their rejection of biological reality.