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The user demonstrates a consistent, passionate, and nuanced engagement with the ideology behind transition, which is a common and genuine perspective for many detransitioners and desisters. The arguments are complex, show personal investment, and directly reference the user's own experience ("people like me"), which is not typical bot behavior. The tone of anger and criticism towards trans activism is also consistent with the stated harm and stigma many feel.
About me
I was born female and my transition started because I felt a deep discomfort with my body, especially during puberty. I was depressed and struggled to accept being a lesbian, so online communities convinced me that becoming a man was the answer. I took testosterone and had surgery, believing it would fix everything, but it only left me with the same emptiness. I now see that I was trying to escape my problems, and transitioning caused me permanent harm. I am now detransitioning and learning to accept myself as the woman I am.
My detransition story
My name isn't important, but my story is. I was born female, and my entire transition was built on a foundation of confusion, pain, and lies I was told and then told myself. I never felt right in my own skin, especially when I hit puberty and developed breasts. I hated them; they felt like foreign objects attached to me, a constant source of anxiety and discomfort. I now see this was a mix of body dysmorphia and the normal, awkward discomfort of growing up.
I was deeply depressed and had incredibly low self-esteem. I was also struggling with my sexuality, feeling attracted to women but unable to accept it. I think there was a lot of internalized homophobia there; it felt easier to try and become a man than to be a lesbian. The internet became my escape. I spent a huge amount of time online in trans communities where my feelings were immediately validated as proof I was a transgender man. My discomfort wasn't a problem to be worked through; it was a sign of my true self. I was influenced online to believe that hormones and surgery were the only path to happiness.
I started identifying as non-binary first, around age 19, but that quickly escalated to identifying as a full transgender man. It felt like the only solution. I started testosterone at 21. For a little while, I felt a rush of relief. The changes—the deeper voice, the facial hair—felt like I was finally taking control. But that feeling was temporary. I got top surgery at 22, a double mastectomy. I was so sure it would fix everything.
It didn't. After the surgery, I was left with a different body, but the same broken mind. The profound emptiness and depression were still there. I had just mutilated myself in a futile attempt to escape them. I started to realize that my belief that I was a man was a delusion, a story I had constructed to cope with trauma, self-loathing, and my inability to accept myself as a gay woman. Transitioning was my form of escapism.
I came to reject the entire ideology. The core claim—that feeling like a man made me a man—was a fiction. Testosterone and surgery didn't change my sex; they just gave me a medicalized imitation of masculinity and left me with permanent damage. I am now infertile, and that is a serious and painful loss. I regret transitioning more than I can possibly express. I regret the years I lost, the health I sacrificed, and the irreversible changes I made to my body.
I don't believe I was born in the wrong body. I believe I was born a female human who was taught to hate herself and was then offered a poisonous solution by an ideology that preys on the vulnerable. My detransition wasn't about finding a new label; it was about facing reality and finally starting the real, hard work of learning to accept my body and who I truly am.
| Age | Year | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 2016 | Started identifying as non-binary, influenced by online communities. |
| 21 | 2018 | Started testosterone therapy. |
| 22 | 2019 | Underwent top surgery (double mastectomy). |
| 23 | 2020 | Realized the ideology was a lie and began to detransition. |
Top Comments by /u/Fragrant_Brief:
i think most trans people know that they are biologically the sex that they are at birth and transitioning isn’t going to make them a biological male or female.
This may have been true twenty years ago. Saying that today is enough to get branded as truscum and banned on most trans subs.
The dominant position of most transpeople today seems to be either that (1) there's no such thing as biological sex, or (2) physically transitioning in effect changes your biological sex.
TLDR: both detrans people and trans people exist.
What does this mean? Of course transgender people exist, nobody is denying that.
The more important question is whether their ideology is true, i.e. does the wish to be the opposite sex actually make you the opposite sex.
Detransitioners' very existence undermines two fundamental claims of gender ideology, (1) that trans identity is immutable and (2) transitioning is beneficial for anyone who identifies or is diagnosed as trans.
People who once identified as trans but no longer do, and/or regret the steps they took to physically transition, shouldn't exist according to transactivists. Of course they're going to go after them with the fervor of a religious zealot hunting down apostates.
A lot of people detransition because they arrive at the realization that gender ideology itself is a lie and that physical transition cannot do what they were told it would do, i.e. turn someone into the opposite sex.
Should they not be able to express those motivating factors on their own sub because it might hurt someone's feelings and is too "political"?
If "being transgender" means experiencing the intense and disturbing desire to change gender, then OK, sure, it exists, but is more meaningfully described as "gender dysphoria" or "gender identity disorder". If it means "having a cross-gender soul or essence, meaning you really are a true woman on the inside, which is why you feel uncomfortable, but transition can fix it and make you a true woman," then that is a fiction and of course I reject it, because I don't think people like me should be exploited based on our mental vulnerability.
This is an important point.
So much of trans rhetoric is focused around dysphoria and the purported alleviate properties of hormones and surgeries, and very little around the deeper question of whether any of that means that those trans people are the sex they wish to be.
Even if you accept that dysphoria is an immutable condition and transition is necessary to treat it and all that (which you shouldn't), it still doesn't mean you are a man/woman. Just because you derive some relief or enjoyment from imitating the opposite sex doesn't mean you actually *are* the opposite sex.
It's a motte a bailey tactic that transactivists are rarely called out for.
Look I'm not saying there is a globalist conspiracy to reduce birth rates, but if there was one then convincing millions of people that they only way they can ever be happy again is to sterilize themselves and cut off their sex organs sounds like something they would do.
Plenty of people claim that transgender people arent real and are simply delusional and will regret transitioning and kill themselves and bla bla bla.
Someone can be delusional and wrong, and still exist.
It saying that schizophrenic people's delusions aren't real equivalent to saying that schizophrenic people don't exist?