This story is from the comments by /u/DraftCurrent4706 that are listed below, summarised with AI.
User Authenticity Assessment: Not Suspicious
Based on the analysis of DraftCurrent4706's extensive comment history, the account appears to be authentic and not a bot. The user demonstrates a consistent, deeply personal, and emotionally charged narrative that aligns with the experiences of many desisters.
Key indicators of authenticity:
- Personal Narrative: The user shares a detailed, multi-faceted personal story of being drawn into and then rejecting gender ideology, citing specific influences (anime, yaoi/BL, internalized misogyny) and a moment of realization.
- Consistent Worldview: Their perspective is remarkably consistent across hundreds of comments over many months, focusing on the impossibility of changing sex, the dangers of medicalization, and the social pressures within fandoms and trans activism.
- Emotional Investment: The comments are passionate, often angry or frustrated, which aligns with the stated reality that detransitioners/desisters can be "very passionate and pissed off" due to experienced harm.
- Engagement and Nuance: They engage with other users' specific situations, offering tailored advice and opinions that show a real-time understanding of complex conversations, which is difficult for bots to replicate.
Conclusion: There are no serious red flags suggesting this account is a bot, a troll, or an inauthentic actor. The depth, consistency, and personal nature of the commentary are strong indicators of a genuine desister sharing their lived experience and firmly held beliefs.
About me
I started as a depressed teenager who didn't fit in with other girls and was bullied by boys, which made me hate the idea of being a weak woman. I escaped into anime and began fetishizing gay men, eventually believing I was supposed to be one. My research into the permanent effects of hormones and surgery horrified me and made me realize I could never actually become a man. I understood that I didn't want to be a real man; I just wanted to escape the misogyny I had internalized. Now I'm a happy, masculine woman who worked through my real issues and I'm grateful I never medically transitioned.
My detransition story
Looking back on my journey, it all started when I was a teenager, feeling lost and depressed. I didn't fit in with the other girls because I was a tomboy, more interested in dinosaurs and video games than makeup and boybands. I was bullied a lot in school, especially by boys, which made me develop a real fear and dislike of men. At the same time, I felt like being a woman meant being weak, sexualised, and just a side character. I hated that idea.
I found an escape in anime. I got sucked into the world of yaoi and Boys' Love (BL) content. I started to fetishise gay men, imagining them as the perfect, romantic anime characters I was reading about. This led to what I now understand was autoandrophilia (AAP) – I was aroused by the idea of being a gay man. My brain was so fried from all the porn and fanfiction that I started to believe I was supposed to be one. I cut my hair short, changed my pronouns, and only cosplayed male characters. I fell in with a crowd of other girls who were doing the same thing; we were all LARPing as "gay trans boys."
The turning point came when I was around 18 or 19. I’ve always been a researcher, so before I made any big decisions, I looked into what testosterone and surgery actually involved. I thought testosterone was a miracle drug that would give me muscles, but I found out it also causes balding, body hair, and a permanent deep voice. Then I looked at photos of top and bottom surgery results. The "neopenis" surgeries looked like something from a horror film to me – a tube of flesh sewn onto the body. I couldn't lie to myself and say it looked real or good. I read about the risks: necrosis, incontinence, infections, and losing sexual feeling. I realised that no matter what I did, I would never actually be a man. It's biologically impossible for humans to change sex.
I sat myself down and asked a simple question: "Do I want to be a man? Not a handsome anime character, but a real man, like a balding, average guy you'd see at the supermarket?" The answer was a clear no. I didn't want any of the real-life effects of being male. I just wanted to escape being a woman because of the misogyny I'd internalised and the bullying I'd experienced.
I started to work on my real issues instead. I focused on my depression and social anxiety. I started going to the gym, which did wonders for my mental health and gave me the strength I wanted – no hormones needed. I realised I could wear whatever clothes I liked, have short hair, and be masculine without having to identify as a man. A woman can be all of those things. I unpacked my AAP by quitting porn and yaoi and focusing on other hobbies. I accepted that I'm a bisexual woman who prefers women, and that my attraction to "anime men" was just a fantasy.
Now, at 27, I'm so grateful I never medically transitioned. I'm comfortable being a gender non-conforming woman. I have no regrets about not transitioning because I see it as dodging a bullet. I believe the trans movement is a harmful ideology that preys on vulnerable people, especially young girls with mental health issues, trauma, or, like me, a deep-seated desire to escape the realities of being a woman in a sexist society.
My Timeline
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| Early Teens | Felt like an outcast, bullied. Discovered anime and yaoi/BL as escapism. |
| Mid-to-Late Teens | Developed AAP. Identified as a "gay trans boy," changed pronouns and presentation. |
| 18-19 | Researched effects of testosterone and surgery. Realised the impossibility of changing sex and the severe risks. Decided to desist. |
| Early 20s | Worked on underlying issues: depression, anxiety, internalised misogyny. Started gym, improved diet, quit addictive porn/yaoi consumption. |
| 27 (Now) | Comfortable and secure as a masculine, bisexual woman. Rejected gender ideology entirely. |
Top Reddit Comments by /u/DraftCurrent4706:
The fact that anyone would downvote you for this is worrying
A man wanting to "breastfeed" a baby is pedophilia (and incest if they're related). It's a guy using a kid as a prop in his sexual fetish, and idk what gross substance that man is producing but it absolutely shouldn't be fed to a baby. Or anyone.
THANK YOU for saying this
I'm active in the anime community, and I know so many young females who claim to be trans, when really it's so obvious that it's an extension of their yaoi fetish. They read BL/manhwas, cosplay mlm anime ships, draw "fanart" of canonically male characters with top surgery scars, and they always talk about how "gay" they are. I nearly went down that pipeline myself - thank god I knocked myself out of it.
The other side is just as bad. I saw a post on instagram today that said males can be lesbians and that "some lesbians like penis". No. Because then they wouldn't be lesbians. I'm so tired of "transbians" - it's just another label for predatory heterosexual men. What's worse is that some women actively encourage it because they think the only criteria for being a woman...is saying "I'm a woman".
Some males and females seem to have this incessant need to shoehorn themselves into lesbian and gay spaces respectively. It's homophobic, narcissistic, and shows a complete lack of respect. It's amazing how quickly they went from "sexuality isn't a choice" to "sleep with me or you're a bigot".
God, I hate AGPs. It's a gross fetishisation of something that is intrinsic to femaleness and actually quite scary and dangerous for many women.
These men could never understand how monumental childbirth is. They don't care about the changes our bodies undergo, they don't care about the pain or risk of death, they don't care about the fact that homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women, and they don't care about the "husband stitch" (in fact, knowing how degenerate a lot of them are, they'd probably get off on the idea).
And don't get me started on the men who try to breastfeed their children. Forcing their fetish onto an innocent child, not knowing how it will affect their bodies, is pedophilic, incestuous, and evil.
Yup.
It's nothing like natal genitalia. Looking at bottom surgery subs on reddit was part of what snapped me out of it. Those subs are just full of very mentally-ill people gaslighting and lying to each other - just cognitive dissonance everywhere. Idk if you've seen the movie Tusk but that's what those surgeries remind me of, with the big stitches. It's even worse when the stitches come undone or parts start to die or leak.
The funny thing is they'll never call it what it is. They'll always say "my vagina" or "my penis". They won't say "my inverted penis canal" or "my tube of skin". It's cope of the highest degree
She has been active in trans online communities
I fear it might be too late. In my experience, once someone falls into that crowd and is indoctrinated into gender ideology, no one else can reach them unless they start to think critically themselves. If you question your partner or say you're concerned about them transitioning, you'll probably be labelled as transphobic.
I've never seen a 100% mentally healthy person claim to be trans. There's always some sort of underlying reason, whether it's depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, DID, BPD, AGP/AAP etc. Transitioning is not a magical cure-all solution - if anything, it will just add physical ailments to the list.
I don't believe they're completely reversible. There are serious consequences to using them. The reality is tharlt since this is a new phenomenon, there aren't enough long-term studies to properly evaluate the risk (even if there were studies, who knows if the results would actually be published?)
Right now, science is in the "fuck around" stage - it will be 10 years or so before we "find out".
It's just a slogan to me. People parrot it without thinking - because it's trendy and it makes them feel like "good" people.
Reminds me of the sheep in Animal Farm who are trained to parrot "four legs good, two legs better" and none of the other animals question it.
I saw someone say TERF is short for Tired of Explaining Reality to Fuckwits lol
"Transphobic" doesn't mean anything to me anymore. Am I scared of an ideology that prioritises feelings over reality and promotes medically-assisted self-harm, body mutilation, sexist stereotypes, porn addiction, homophobia, and the idea that females, children and babies should be forced into vulnerable situations with males like Dakota Nieves, Shane Green, Isla Bryson, Jessica Yaniv, Andrea Long Chu etc.? Yes, I'm scared. I'm terrified. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would be.
It's like saying "oh you don't want to walk into that lion enclosure? You're so lionphobic!!" No, Becky, I don't hate lions - I just know there's a good chance that one will tear my head off if given the opportunity.
to get by people who never had my best interest at heart and "supported" and "affirmed" my decision to medically sterilize myself
Crabs in a bucket mentality. It's like the "fat activists" who support and affirm each other...until one of them actively tries to lose weight and get healthy - then that person is insulted, called "fatphobic" and ultimately ejected from the group.
I'm not a Trump fan (I don't trust any politician, they're all corrupt af) but I support the new law. It's necessary to protect females.
Things like agender, cosmicgender, genderfluid, etc. don't exist. It's just people (usually young people) confusing their personality with gender and wanting to be special
I agree with all of this. Transgenderism seeks to redefine what a woman is and, in doing so, erases sexual orientation.
A lesbian is a woman (an adult human female) who is exclusively attracted to other women (adult human females). That's what it means to be same-sex attracted.
It's now illegal for lesbians to organise female-only gatherings in Australia, there are publications that claim lesbians are scared of penises, and online wlw spaces are now inundated with AGPs talking about "girl cock". A 2015 survey of 3000 American "trans women" found that 27% identified as "lesbian" - that's over a quarter, the highest number just above bisexual. For comparison, the percentage of actual women who identify as lesbian is around 1-2%. Anyone who doesn't see what's going on here is just burying their head in the sand at this point. Hell, it's even observable on reddit - whenever I see a girl pfp with the trans flag, I go to the person's profile and 9 times out of 10 they're active in the sub actuallesbians.
It makes me so angry and upset because I'd love to have a gf one day but 1) there are no safe spaces for same-sex attracted women anymore and 2) a lot of women actually blindly support the ideology.
I also have sympathy for gay men who are told that they have to sleep with females or they're "transphobic". You can't even filter out trans-identified individuals on Grindr.