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Reddit user /u/Bubblegumpants_'s Detransition Story

Transitioned: 19 -> Detransitioned: 26
female
internalised homophobia
porn problem
hated breasts
took hormones
regrets transitioning
depression
got top surgery
now infertile
homosexual
anxiety
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The user's narrative is highly specific, emotionally nuanced, and internally consistent over time. They describe a deeply personal and painful journey with complex, contradictory feelings about transition, detransition, identity, and sexuality. The emotional tone—anger, sadness, regret, fear of social judgment, and a detailed focus on sexual function—aligns with the genuine distress and passion found in the detrans community. The account does not read as a caricature or a propaganda piece.

About me

I started transitioning at 19 because, as a masculine lesbian, I felt pressured to become a man since I didn't fit a feminine ideal. For seven years on testosterone, I became emotionally numb and my sexuality felt hollow, which were the most devastating changes I wasn't prepared for. I deeply regret the physical changes and the pain of losing my former self. I stopped testosterone recently, and it feels like I'm finally untying a knot in my throat as my emotions slowly return. I now realize I was just a woman uncomfortable with stereotypes, and I'm detransitioning to find peace and love as myself again.

My detransition story

My journey with transition started when I was around 19. I was a masculine lesbian and I felt a lot of pressure to fit in, both from the world and from myself. I thought that if I couldn't be a feminine woman, then I must be a man. I started testosterone and after only two months on it, I was already approved for top surgery. It all happened so fast.

I was on testosterone for seven years. At first, I was excited about the changes. I got a deeper voice and grew a beard. But the biggest change, the one nobody really warned me about, was what it did to my emotions and my sexuality. It was like a switch flipped inside me. I became emotionally numb. I couldn't cry for over two years; I just bottled everything up and faked expressions. I felt a terrifying emptiness.

Sexually, it was a disaster. My sex drive became really high, but the actual pleasure was completely underwhelming. Orgasms became a chore. Before testosterone, my orgasms were like a whole symphony—deep, full-body, and satisfying for days. On T, they were just a superficial, concentrated sensation that lasted a few seconds and left me feeling nothing. It was a huge letdown. I would try to edge for as long as possible just to feel something, but it was never even half as good as it used to be. I realized I never really liked dicks or being with men; I was dating gay men just to feel validated as a man, and it made me hate myself. Deep down, I always wanted a simple, happy lesbian relationship.

I also started to regret my physical changes. I used to be a very attractive woman, and now I feel like a less attractive man. I spent so much money and went through so much pain to get a body that I don't even feel at home in anymore. I look in the mirror and don't recognize myself. I feel stupid for not appreciating the body I had.

A big turning point for me was realizing that gender is an artificial construction. If it's not real, then why was I putting so much effort into performing one? I don't care if people call me a girl or a guy anymore. My biggest concern now is just wanting to feel things again and to enjoy sex like I used to.

I finally stopped testosterone not long ago. It feels like a tight knot in my throat has been untied. I can feel my emotions returning, which is scary but good. My sexuality is slowly improving, too. I'm starting to detransition because I want to get back in touch with my truest self. I wish I had embraced my masculine traits as a part of being a woman instead of changing my whole body. I have a lot of regrets about transitioning. I feel like I wasn't presented with all the possible consequences, especially the emotional and sexual ones. I was rushed into it.

I don't think I'm trans. I think I'm a woman who was uncomfortable with the pressures of being feminine and found what felt like an escape in transitioning. Now, I just want to find peace with myself and hopefully one day find love as the woman I am.

Age Event
19 Started testosterone.
19 Had top surgery (mastectomy) after only 2 months on T.
26 Stopped testosterone after 7 years due to emotional numbness and sexual dissatisfaction.
26 Began the process of detransitioning.

Top Comments by /u/Bubblegumpants_:

27 comments • Posting since January 22, 2022
Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains why they expect the number of detransitioners to grow, citing extreme gender rhetoric, a stronger gender binary, and the medicalization of masculine women and feminine men.
99 pointsJan 27, 2022
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Honestly? Expect it to get even bigger, there's a lot of side effects and situations that are getting out of control, the gender rhetoric is getting extreme and the binary stronger than ever.

We don't have women who like to express themselves as masculine anymore, they're all transmen now, just as men who express femininity have to be transwomen.

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) expresses hope for regaining full-body orgasms and fear of social rejection when considering detransition.
36 pointsJan 22, 2022
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Oh god...... So you're telling me there's hope? I really want to get that feeling back, but I'm completely terrified of detransitioning, I feel like I will lose all my friends and people will look at me like I'm a joke.

But I need those full body orgasms back, I can't carry on with this superficial feeling anymore.

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains their regret over medically transitioning, warning that not fitting feminine stereotypes doesn't make someone a man and urging others not to make the same costly mistake.
23 pointsFeb 21, 2022
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There's no wrong way of being a woman, please don't believe that you're a man because you don't fit into the society idea of what a woman is. I'll be completely honest to you: I would do anything to go back to being a cis lesbian, even in if masculine, even if awkward looking. I used to think this too, that I'd be a way better man than everyone around me, but it took me so long, years even, thousands of dollars spent on T and surgeries, to realize that the reason I'd be better it's because I was a woman, I could recognize their behavior and be better than them because I wasn't a man. And now I feel stupid because everyone thinks I'm a man and they think I'm really good at it, but I don't even feel like one anymore, I don't want to be one, everything I admired in a man's body I already have it and I don't want it, I don't find myself in the mirror anymore and I feel sad that this idea that women have all to be femenine or they're men never allowed me to express as the type of woman that I am , but I feel like a woman and now it's harder because I have a beard, I have narrow hips and I have no breasts, but still I'm sure I am a woman and I won't let anyone try to correct me and tell me I don't look like one or I'm not doing it right because existing as you, and expressing yourself as you wish to, is never wrong, so if you want to transition do it because you really feel like it's who you are, if it's because the world is telling you that who you are right now is wrong, trust me, it's a mistake.

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains how testosterone permanently reduced her capacity for sexual pleasure and orgasms, stating she would not have transitioned had she known.
15 pointsJan 22, 2022
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Exactly. I totally agree, I did know that I would get a bigger clitoris but I didn't expect it to feel like that, I thought it would be an amp version of the smaller one. I didn't have the complication of it resting outside of my clitoral hood, but my changes were significantly deeper, it went to the way I experience pleasure all together. There is nothing I can do physically to experience stronger sexual pleasure, and orgasms. So yes, if someone would have told me that I would get a small fraction of the pleasure I usually had, for the rest of my life, I wouldn't have done it, beard and deep voice isn't enough compensation to this unsatisfactory sexual life. Thank you for your comment and linking it to a known experience, I do hope it gets better for you, did you get any procedure or treatment for your condition?

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains that the 'detrans' tag on Tumblr is often dominated by a "cock cult" kink, where users—primarily men or transphobic individuals—fantasize about converting lesbians, and suggests this content is a form of porn-sick self-harm rather than representing genuine trans or detrans people.
14 pointsFeb 21, 2022
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I had no idea this existed and got curious and only took a couple of post at the very front of the detrans tag to notice that this is nothing but porn sick people, please don't confuse them with actual trans or even real detrans, most of the times they're not even that, but cis or transphobic ppl that fantasize constantly with converting them to the "cock cult", they do that a lot to lesbians and you see those men running accounts where they call themselves lesbians but have a kink to be converted into straight women. It's actually funny because most lesbians already engaged with men and penises and that made them realize their sexuality. Anyway, most of them are probably men, if they're really sick, deranged actual trans people, they're consuming and creating this content to self harm, pornography many times take the shape of your own fears, things that disgust you, etc and people use it as coping mechanism without even realizing, this usually happens when you get a distorted view of the world thanks to the porn itself, it really sucks that they use you as an object to get off but remember that tumblr is mostly sick people too out of touch with reality, they don't reflect who we are, and we're not proving them right by existing and detransitioning.

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains their regret over medical transition, stating they would have been a "9/10" as a woman but now feel like a "6/10" as a man, leading to depression and an inability to enjoy relationships.
12 pointsJan 29, 2022
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I appreciate your answer. Very straightforward, I prefer that.

I've always been somewhat fixated with my self image, and I'm completely aware it is going to fade, that age is going to come, but I'm in my 20s, I'd like to be a bit shallow for a bit and feel like an attractive person. That's why I'm starting to regret this so much since I'd be waaaaay more attractive as a woman (9/10) than I am as a man (6/10)

I don't want to give up and be like fuck it, because I know for a FACT that I'll look myself in the mirror and depression will come and strangle me. I can't give up and just accept to be ugly for the rest of my life, I just can't, I'm still too young, I need to at least get something.

And the reason those relationships felt way more authentic to me it's because at least back then I wasn't obsessing over my gender, I could focus on the good things, now I simply can't, everything is triggering, uncomfortable, and too complicated to enjoy the good things anymore.

I'm just tired of it ...

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains their grief over a permanent loss of sexual pleasure and satisfaction after stopping testosterone, describing it as less intense and underwhelming despite a high sex drive.
12 pointsJan 22, 2022
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Thank you for your answer, and yes, it's like I thought it would be if I went off T. But I just really hate this, the high sex drive is a waste when the feeling is so underwhelming, and my mind constantly, every time, compares it to what I had before.

I totally get what you mean, but it's not a physical thing so much, it's not about how sensitive I am now, it's about how my body processes pleasure. It's just less intense and less satisfying, and whenever I bring this up in trans spaces people immediately goes to "it's not that bad" and I'm like... Maybe they're saying that to feel better with themselves? Which I used to do at first, hoping it would pass and I would get better, but I never did.

I'm sorry I'm just really sad about this, I'm aware it's something I won't get back, but it's all I want now.

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains how 7 years on testosterone left them feeling emotionally numb, unable to cry or feel empathy, and considering detransition.
12 pointsJan 22, 2022
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After 7 years on T... I highly doubt I will get it back.

And I agree with you, it is most definitely related to how I process emotions now. It's also waaaaay less intense, I have a harder time feeling empathy for others, before posting here I haven't cried in... Idk, more than 2 years probably, I bottle everything up and most of the times I'm just imitating expressions instead of actually feeling them.

It's fucking terrifying and I feel so empty inside.

Maybe I should detransition after all... I can't imagine going much longer feeling like this, I really don't want it.

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains how dating gay men while presenting as FTM reinforced a false identity, and now wishes she had remained a lesbian to have a relationship with her current girlfriend.
12 pointsJan 29, 2022
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I think I went through the same thing but in the opposite way. I used to date and engage sexually with gay men (while presenting as a FTM man) and they made me feel like a guy too, which was the only reason I did it because I kinda hated everything else about it.

Now I'm dating a woman, and thinking how much I'd like to be a woman too and be in a simple, happy, lesbian relationship, I wish I could go back in time and remain a lesbian and then meet her.

All this time I didn't want a dick or get dicked down. I never really liked dicks at all 😭

Reddit user Bubblegumpants_ (Socially Trans - Regrets Medical Transition) explains how bottom growth from testosterone ruined their sex life, describing how a larger clitoris became the sole focus of their sex drive with weaker, concentrated sensation, and how they lost the ability to have full-body orgasms from penetration.
12 pointsJan 23, 2022
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Exactly, it's a misconception that I'm sure almost everyone has, bigger clit = better feeling. When you clit gets several inches big, it starts being the whole focus of your sex drive, you barely feel anything anywhere else, and it's concentrated but not even strong enough. And the feeling gets old very soon.

Before, I was able to orgasm from penetration or other types of stimulation, and it was like a whole symphony, I would feel it everywhere. I'm unable to do that now.