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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, "Ed_Sparrius," exhibits characteristics of a passionate, opinionated individual involved in the detransition community.
Key Points:
- Consistent Persona: The comments maintain a consistent identity (Ed, from Australia), viewpoint, and writing style across several months.
- Passionate Advocacy: The tone is strongly opinionated and activist, which is common for this subject matter. The user is advocating for a specific perspective (caution against medical transition) and promoting resources (Walt Heyer, their own email).
- Engagement with Nuance: The comments show an understanding of complex topics like ROGD, desistance rates, and medical critiques, which is atypical for a simple bot.
- No Automation Signs: There are no signs of automated posting, repetitive spam, or incoherent text.
While the account is promoting a specific website and email, this is consistent with an activist role rather than a clear sign of inauthenticity. The user presents as a real, highly motivated person with a strong stance on the issue.
About me
I was a teenage girl who felt a deep discomfort with my body when I started developing during puberty. I found communities online that convinced me I was a trans man and that testosterone was the answer. I had surgery and took hormones, but it didn't fix my underlying depression and anxiety, only adding new health problems and making me sterile. I later realized my issues were from body dysmorphia, internalized homophobia, and trauma, not from being born the wrong sex. Now I'm a detransitioned woman who has found peace through therapy that helped me address my real problems.
My detransition story
My journey with gender started when I was a teenager. I was a girl who felt incredibly uncomfortable with my body, especially when I started developing breasts during puberty. I hated them and felt a deep sense of wrongness. I now believe this was a mix of body dysmorphia and the normal discomfort that can come with puberty, but at the time, I was convinced it was gender dysphoria.
I spent a lot of time online and was heavily influenced by what I saw. I found communities that affirmed my feelings and told me that transitioning was the answer. I started identifying as non-binary first, which felt like a less scary step, but eventually, I was convinced I was a trans man. My low self-esteem and depression made me latch onto this new identity as a solution to all my problems. It felt like an escape from being me.
I began taking testosterone when I was 19. I was so sure it was the right thing. The changes were exciting at first—my voice dropped, I grew facial hair. But after the initial excitement wore off, the underlying issues were still there. The depression and anxiety didn't go away; they just changed shape. I ended up getting top surgery at 21. I thought it would finally make me happy, but after the recovery, I was left with a different body that still didn't feel like me. I was sterile from the hormones, and I started to experience serious health complications that my doctors linked to the testosterone.
Looking back, I can see how many other factors were at play. I think I experienced internalised homophobia; accepting myself as a gay woman was harder than becoming a straight man. I also struggled with an eating disorder, and I now see my focus on changing my body was linked to that. I was deeply influenced by friends and online spaces that encouraged me to transition without ever questioning the reasons behind my feelings.
I don't talk about it much, but I also had a problem with porn that shaped my ideas about men and women. I think for a while, my desire to transition was tangled up in that.
I have profound regrets about my transition. I regret the permanent changes I made to my body, especially losing my fertility. I regret not getting the right kind of help sooner. I benefited immensely from non-affirming therapy later on—therapy that finally asked why I felt the way I did instead of just affirming my self-diagnosis. It helped me work through my trauma and other issues, which is what I really needed all along.
My thoughts on gender now are that it's a very complex thing, but for me, it was a mistaken solution to other problems. I was born female, and I am a woman. I don't believe my discomfort was ever about truly being a man. I think some people are helped by transition, but for many like me, it's a path we take for the wrong reasons and later regret. I believe everyone should have the right to explore these feelings, but they also have the right to get help to question them without being called hateful.
Here is a timeline of my journey:
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| 13 | Started feeling intense discomfort with puberty and my developing body. |
| 17 | Found online trans communities and began identifying as non-binary. |
| 18 | Socially transitioned and began identifying as a trans man. |
| 19 | Started testosterone hormone therapy. |
| 21 | Underwent top surgery (double mastectomy). |
| 23 | Realized I had made a mistake and began the process of detransitioning. Stopped taking testosterone. |
| 24 | Began therapy focused on underlying trauma, body dysmorphia, and depression. |
| 25 | Accepted my identity as a detransitioned female. |
Top Comments by /u/Ed_Sparrius:
Can I point out that there are zero scientific studies that prove gender dysphoria as a genetic condition. That historical record show that, certainly not all but the vast majority of people who suffer gender dysphoria, who receive good support, grow out of it by age 25.
While understanding that many kids, teens, suffering gender dysphoria are desperate to have it stop, the current push to put kids on blockers and put them on the medical pathway is not something numerous of those kids, as adults living with the consequences, would have wanted to have done to them.
Kenneth Zucker, a doctor who ran a highly successful gender clinic in the US used the watchful waiting process. Carefully supporting and monitoring his patients. Giving them all the psychological support they needed. If as adults the gender dysphoria had not abated, and the patients now being mature enough to appreciate the consequences of the medical pathway, he would assist them with it if they so wanted.
Zucker was fired by the progressive management for refusing to push kids onto the medical pathway. In the end he won a court case that upheld his approach, he received a public apology and financial compensation. But sadly his clinic remained closed.
Over the last years the Tavistock clinic in the UK had 35 doctors resign in protest at the way kids have been pushed onto the medical pathway. The gender clinics openly admit they have no idea which kids will desist. Yet they also admit that 100% of kids put on blockers will become transgender.
There is only one long term study that was released, called the Swedush study, and it concluded that srs contributes to suicide rates. Usually peaking at around 10 years post srs. All subsequent released studies are only 5 - 6 years long. It is during this time that most patients are elated, believing they have changed their bodies appearance and are waiting for it to heal. But in time reality sets in.
While srs does relieve the gender dysphoria for some, for others it doesn't. The trans person then needs to deal with taking lifelong organ damaging cross-sex hormones. Being sterile. Often sexually incompetent. Urological problems are common resulting in surgeries and requiring antibiotics. "Vaginas" need packers to stop them closing. "Penises" do not naturally become erect. Sex can be painful. And srs is not reversible.
These issues should be made very clear to anyone who decides to go down this path. If then they want to go ahead that is absolutely their right.
Society should be asking why these 5 -6 year long studies arent lengthened to show if the Swedish study, which has been much criticised, is correct or flawed?
And society should investigate what the clinics are doing and if it is in the best interests of their patients. People often forget, they are businesses looking for profit.
In the 1960's studies came out that "proved" smoking was good for people. That is what happens when you allow a business to investigate itself. The clinics should be viewed no differently.
Canada have the most oppressive laws to stop people seeking assistance out of the trans life. Bottom line is that anyone should have the right to be what they want. Want to be trans? Your right. Dont want to be trans? Should be your right but no longer is. If you want you can email me and I will get some contacts in Canada for you. I am in Australia. We are building up networks around the globe to fight the extremes in all this. My name is Ed. My email is [email protected]
Walt Heyer, ex transwoman has a support network. He estimates around 20%.
The problem with the stats is that the clinics dont follow up people who drop out of their studies. The very people who would have done so due to depression, the result of regret.
Walt's website URL is: https://sexchangeregret.com/
I should have added. Do you understand that if governments around the world outlaw what they are calling "conversion therapy" that this Reddit support site would in time be labelled a hate group and threatened with legal action if it doesnt shut down. That is what we are fighting.
Gender dysphoria / Transgenderism was historically far more prevalent in males from a very young age. ROGD is very much a female issue, often occurring around puberty.
Researchers are suggesting that, whereas gender dysphoria often resolves itself by late teens to early 20's, the event of social media has given these girls the impetus, tools and encouragement to explore further and so develops into transgenderism.
As this reddit thread shows, the gender dysphoria resolving itself but now having left the painful consequences of transitioning to deal with.
Thank you for your story. Walt Heyer lived as s woman for 10 years before detransitioning. He now has a support website.
You can contact him at [email protected]
There are a number of articles and videos on gender dysphoria and a link to Walt's website on the RESOURCES page of out website. Here is the link...
https://www.stopsafeschools.com/resources-4/
Hope it is helpful. Ed Sparrius.