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Authenticity Assessment: Not Suspicious
Based on the provided comments, the account does not show clear red flags of being a bot or inauthentic.
The user demonstrates:
- Deep, specific, and consistent knowledge of endocrinology, pharmacology, and biohacking related to hormone therapy and detransition.
- A cohesive personal narrative, identifying as a male with Autogynephilia (AGP) who explored transition but did not medically transition (a desister).
- Emotional investment and a clear, consistent worldview that is critical of transgender healthcare and activist communities, which aligns with the passionate and often angry perspectives found in the detrans community.
The user's tone is analytical and often angry, but this is not an indicator of inauthenticity in this context. The account appears to be a real person with a strong personal and intellectual interest in the topic.
About me
I was born male and my feelings started with autogynephilia, which I first thought meant I was transgender. I learned to speak with a female voice and transitioned online, but my medical research made me deeply skeptical of the permanent effects of hormones. I realized my core issue was a part of my sexuality, not an identity, so I stopped identifying as trans. I now manage these feelings through self-acceptance and occasional cross-dressing as a healthy man. I'm now focused on helping others recover from the physical damage of medical transition.
My detransition story
My journey with gender started with what I now understand as autogynephilia (AGP). I was born male, and from a young age, I had a sexual arousal pattern that was tied to the idea of being a woman. For a long time, I didn't have a name for it, and I thought it might mean I was transgender. I spent a lot of time in online trans communities, and I even learned how to make my voice sound female. I practiced a lot and got to the point where I could pass vocally. It became muscle memory.
I never took hormones or had any surgeries. I only ever transitioned socially online and in specific situations. Looking back, I think a big part of my initial pull towards a transgender identity was a way to make sense of my AGP. I also have a background in biochemistry and medical research, and over time, I started to see the whole transgender medical process very differently. I became deeply skeptical. I saw that the information given to people, especially about the reversibility of hormone therapy, was often misleading or just wrong. I came to believe that medical malpractice and fraud are real problems in this area.
My thoughts on gender now are complicated. I see myself more as a transhumanist and a biohacker. I'm interested in how we can change our bodies and minds, but I believe it has to be done with full knowledge and consent, and with a way to undo things. I think the current transgender model is a primitive and often harmful version of this. It doesn't allow for enough questioning or exploration of other reasons someone might feel uncomfortable with their sex, like internalised homophobia, trauma, or other psychological factors.
I don't regret exploring my gender, because it led me to a deeper understanding of myself. I've found a way to manage my AGP by accepting it as a part of my male sexuality. I work on being a healthy, functional man, and I indulge in cross-dressing when I feel like it, which has mostly eliminated the dysphoria I used to feel. I don't regret not transitioning medically. I'm grateful I avoided what I see as a potential iatrogenic nightmare. My main focus now is on trying to help others, especially detransitioners who are struggling with the physical aftermath of hormones, by connecting their experiences to other fields of hormone therapy that might offer solutions.
Here is a timeline of my journey:
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| Various ages in early adulthood | Developed and explored autogynephilia (AGP) privately. |
| Mid-20s | Began social transition online, learned and practiced a female-passing voice. |
| Late 20s / Early 30s | Researched transgender ideology and medical processes intensively. Became deeply skeptical. |
| Early 30s | Realized AGP was the core of my feelings, not a female identity. Stopped identifying as transgender. |
| Early 30s | Adopted a transhumanist/biohacker perspective. Began managing AGP through self-acceptance and occasional cross-dressing without medical intervention. |
| Early 30s | Started participating in detransition support communities, sharing research on hormone recovery. |
Top Comments by /u/ApocalypticGPirate8:
The lies trans activists are spouting can easily cause suicidal ideation. It's like telling someone they won't grow up to be an adult at all if they won't take a certain pill. Actually believing this, and other things that are typically part of the package (e.g. intersectionality, being taught to view every aspect that makes one self unique in terms of systemic oppression and rebranded class struggle) does not result in happy, contented people. It's about holding people hostage to get what they want. Reminds me of how religions hold people's entire families hostage through claims of an afterlife.
I have made that exact comparison myself. The history of medicine is full of similar examples, where "experts" got a big head and hurt large numbers of people.
Intent or emergence, malice or incompetence, I don't think it even fucking matters, need solutions to problems caused by people with too much power.
If you want to work this from a left-wing angle, there's nothing stopping you. There could be something to the idea that this trans thing is arguably about erasing certain minority groups, namely autistic people and homosexuals. You could also become a TERF.
You could also realize allies of convenience, coalitions, and strange bedfellows are a thing (see how many phrases we have for this?), through some of the most brutal conflicts in history. I have actually been an activist, and worked with people, on particular issues, who would slit my throat if they could, and if they really knew me. I learned a lot from these experiences. People are complex.
Plenty of options.
Because people who have no idea where to start thinking about biology, psychology or medicine are being told these things by perceived authority figures and everyone around them? There's a point where informed consent, isn't. Medical malpractice is a thing. Fraud is a thing, people do get tricked.
Learning that there are no "adults", and that believing in authority (including/especially when a bunch of people say they're an expert) is a fallacy, was to me, a very painful part of growing up.
"Conversion therapy" is what they're calling anything that might allow someone to gain agency over their own sexuality. There have probably been some attempts to "pray the gay away" by various religious groups, with dubious efficacy (haven't looked into the history of this in detail yet). I don't see a problem with any such thing that involves consenting adults. People attempt to use religious counseling to deal with addictions and other personal problems all the time. I can't dismiss it as religion is certainly psychologically powerful. It can inspire bravery, benevolence, and shocking acts of cruelty.
I've interacted with more than a few people struggling with self-diagnosed autogynephila and dysphoria who wish they could just make it all go away. Killing their own libido with HRT is a related move.
I once read a transhuman science fiction short where people could see a psychiatrist to easily change their sexuality, gay or straight. I don't see why that's a problem, again, between consenting adults. It would be problematic to people with an agenda who don't believe our own minds belong to us.
Edit: I support total drug legalization for similar reasons. How fucking dare someone else claim ownership over my state of mind, that's as personal as it gets.
I think they like to get people on HRT ASAP because weakened, passive men are amenable to further suggestion. With FtM's, kinda the same thing, probably feels awesome, much like cocaine or heroin would first time.
Look up the assassins/hashishin, they allegedly used what sounds like a strong hit of edible weed followed by a romp with prostitutes in a beautiful garden as an initiation.
I'm skeptical of any thread like this. Ive seen TRA trolls try to stir shit on other "alternative" trans subs claiming this place is hostile to whatever they're about, and they're probably here doing the same.
From what I've seen of these types, they're malignant, obsessed, and extremely Machiavelian, not stupid. They want us all isolated. These alternative perspectives are something they would obviously like to capture and/or nip in the bud.
I'm not sure that's what's going on in this thread, though I would be on guard for it.
Are you trying to determine whether MtF's are passable or happy? Yeah, some are. That crowd is generally a hive of despair, trauma, extremism, autistic monomania, cluster B malevolence, and delusion, some of the most tortured souls on this earth, or at least in the developed world.
I've seen trans subs mix in pictures of "cis" girls, also plenty of filters used. I believe some of it is intentional to break/desensitize innate ability to clock gender. It's dysphoria fuel either way.
Also, last I checked, OCD unwanted thoughts are just that, unwanted. They don't represent repressed desires or anything like that. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Has anyone mentioned aromatase inhibitors or SERMs?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071351/
Not advice, but you could run that by a doc. There are a lot of different patient types that get gynecomastia.
I apologize if anything I've written came across this way.
Comparison to other, possibly similar hormonal conditions could provide a frame of reference for solving these kinds of problems. They're still problems.
Stories like yours are important. We need more information on what has happened to people and what they were told that led them to harmful outcomes. People who have been harmed by these "treatments" expressing their pain is the first step.
I consider anyone that misinforms others about this stuff to be primarily responsible, especially if they were doing it as a medical professional. It's called malpractice, in that context.
I've also had some terrible things done to me by others. I still had to exert agency over the situation to get through it, and learn from mistakes, including when that mistake was trusting a charlatan. I chose to trust them. What they did was still a fraud. In some cases I was able to get restitution or retribution, or often just survive, fix the damage. I still had to do something to make that happen.