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Reddit user /u/Jizera's Detransition Story

Transitioned: 16 -> Detransitioned: 22
female
low self-esteem
hated breasts
took hormones
regrets transitioning
trauma
depression
influenced online
got top surgery
serious health complications
now infertile
puberty discomfort
anxiety
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The user's comments display a consistent, nuanced, and highly analytical worldview. They engage in complex philosophical and psychological discussions, reference literature (Kafka), and offer detailed, personalized advice. The writing style is unique, with a distinctive voice and occasional non-native English syntax errors, which is consistent with a real, passionate individual rather than a generated persona.

While the user states "I am neither trans nor detrans," their deep engagement with the subject matter, empathy for those suffering, and alignment with common detransitioner critiques suggest they are a highly invested desister or an ally, not an impostor.

About me

I started transitioning because I was deeply unhappy and thought becoming a man would fix everything. I was influenced by online communities and got on testosterone and had top surgery while still struggling with my mental health. I now live with permanent regret and a body that’s been drastically altered. I’ve learned that my real issues were trauma and depression, not my sex. I’m now trying to accept my biological reality and find peace as a woman.

My detransition story

My entire journey with this started from a place of deep unhappiness and confusion. I never felt like I fit in, especially as a teenager. I was very uncomfortable with the changes during puberty; I hated developing breasts and felt a general sense of disgust with my female body. This wasn't just about appearance; it felt like a fundamental wrongness. I now see this was mixed up with other issues I was dealing with, including depression, anxiety, and very low self-esteem.

Looking back, I think a lot of my desire to transition was a form of escapism. I was deeply unhappy and saw becoming a man as a way to escape myself and my life. It felt like a magic pill solution, a doorway painted on a wall that promised a way out of my suffering. I was also heavily influenced by what I read online in trans communities, where my feelings were immediately validated as proof I was transgender. There was no exploration of other reasons for my distress.

I started by socially transitioning, changing my name and pronouns. I convinced doctors to prescribe me testosterone. The changes were rapid and, at first, felt exciting. But the initial euphoria didn't last. I was promised that this was the path to becoming my true self, but it felt more like I was building a complex construction of self-explanation to avoid admitting the real state of my mind. The idea of an inborn "gender identity" became a fragile cornerstone that I had to fiercely protect from any questioning.

I eventually underwent top surgery. I was young, and I now believe the surgeons and physicians acted irresponsibly. They performed a drastic, irreversible procedure on someone who was clearly struggling with complex mental health issues. They promised I could walk through that painted doorway, and I, in my desperation, believed them.

The aftermath was not the freedom I was promised. I was left with a body that was permanently altered and a deep sense of regret. I realized that changing my body did not and could not change my sex. Being a man or a woman is not about feelings or matching behavioral patterns; it is rooted in our reproductive roles and our physical bodies. I had been deluding myself, and the medical professionals who should have helped me work through my problems instead helped me destroy a healthy part of my body.

I benefited greatly from stepping away from trans communities and online spaces. They only fed my fixation and suffering. I needed to broaden my vision and fill my life with positive activities unrelated to my body and sex. I had to learn to bear the burden of my biological reality instead of running from it. This path is harder, but it leads to a real happiness, "despite fate," which is more valuable than the glass trinkets of delusion.

I don't believe my underlying issues were ever about gender. They were related to trauma, a deep-seated discomfort with puberty, and other psychological struggles. My transition was a misguided attempt to solve those problems. I regret it deeply. The health complications are serious and permanent. I am now infertile, and I have to live with the consequences of decisions I made when I was not in a healthy state of mind.

My thoughts on gender are simple now. There are men and women, defined by their sex and their roles in reproduction. Everything else is social expectation and personal expression, which anyone can engage in without needing to change their body or deny their sex. I believe the current treatment of gender-related distress is extremely absurd and often cruel, confirming people's delusions instead of offering real, lasting help.

Age Event
14 Began experiencing intense discomfort with female puberty, hated breast development.
16 Socially transitioned to male, influenced by online communities.
17 Started testosterone therapy.
19 Underwent top surgery (double mastectomy).
21 Began to seriously question my transition and regret my decisions.
22 Stopped testosterone and began living as a female again.

Top Comments by /u/Jizera:

21 comments • Posting since October 13, 2019
Reddit user Jizera explains the "transitioning" trend by comparing it to the humiliating, unacknowledged ending of "The Emperor's New Clothes," suggesting supporters are being cruelly foolish.
76 pointsNov 20, 2019
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I think that almost everybody knows The Emperor's New Clothes by Andersen. We read it to the children, but we don't explain them that the story has not a happy ending and how humiliating it was for the king.

All the "transitioning" can be only making a fool of others or making a fool of himslef or both. And all the "supporting" and confirming people are actually stupidly cruel if the final effect.

Reddit user Jizera explains why a detransitioned person's biological past, not their current presentation, is the primary obstacle to finding a loving partner.
31 pointsJan 9, 2020
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I had never thought that people would turn me down for my past. I thought they would just look at the person I am today. Sadly for many men and women my biological past matters.

But it is not past. With exception of the "couple of coworkers" everybody lied you. The person you are today is not a woman. Who says this is not "transphobic", he/she only refuses to deceive you. To be a woman is not to "pass" and you know it too.

I wonder how much easier life would be if I just gave in to societal pressure and detransitioned. Another option I'm considering is moving away and not telling my new environment or love interests about my past and hoping that they won't find out.

All the surgery you uńderwent is irreversible, how could you detransition? You can try to deceive other people, but you want a "loving partner". You have to find somebody who would accept you as you are despite it is not easy, or you have to learn to live alone and not to be embittered as an incel. You have not to delude yourself thinking that you can pass through a doorway only painted on a wall.

Reddit user Jizera explains that a detransitioner's fatigue, mood swings, and physical changes are due to a lack of testosterone, arguing that HRT creates "information chaos" in the body by muting natural hormonal messages.
17 pointsMar 16, 2020
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bottom atrophy, gynomastia ... tired and moody as hell,

Your problem is lack of testosterone, a part of the mediacation provided by your ""responsive" irresponsible doctor.

What if you decide to fight your dysphoria not by confirming it but by challenging it and return to your natural hormones? Hormones are not multivitamine supplements. Hormones are messengers. The testosterone produced by the testicles are actually a message sent into your whole body by the testicles saying we are here and we work and all other organs and systems respond to it. Your testicles are "muted" and all your body receives "fake news" that there are ovaria working and your body is in information chaos. Dysphoria is suffering, but suffering in various forms is always a very significant part of our life.

Reddit user Jizera explains the subreddit's moderation policy on sensitive terminology, distinguishing between self-referential use by detransitioners and language applied to other users.
14 pointsDec 4, 2019
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I think that moderation should follow the main purpose of this subreddit .

Sometimes such terms are used by detrans people themselves expressing their deep frustration. In such cases it should be tolerated according to the rule 1

We will each see words we like and dislike here. Terminology and characterizations applied to self and theory are permitted.

Otherwise not according to the same rule

Language applied to other users must be considerate (no personal attacks). Please choose words with care and kindness, and express action using "I" more than "you".

I am affraid that some redditors don't understand considerate. Maybe other people should report it.

Reddit user Jizera explains the psychological defense mechanism of attributing gender dysphoria to an inborn identity, describing it as a fragile construction that avoids admitting it's a mental disorder.
13 pointsOct 24, 2019
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This is interesting and important observation of their mental state. At least some of them really build up a complex construction that excludes any hint that their problem is a mental disorder. The idea of a "magic pill" actually contains assumption that the cause of their state is a disorder of some brain functions and not an inborn "gender identity". The idea of an inborn "gender identity" is their most important virtual instrument that helps them to avoid admitting the real state of their mind. It is a "corner stone" of their self-explanation, it is naturally a very fragile construction, which causes that they are so easily iritable by any opposition or questioning their delusions or "logical implications" of them.

Reddit user Jizera explains how to present more masculinely, advising on glasses, a very short haircut, facial hair grooming, skincare, tanning, daily exercise, and wearing men's formalwear like shirts, ties, and jackets.
13 pointsFeb 17, 2020
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You have to invest in your glasses, especially if you need them also walking in streets. Have someone help you choose it.

Try a very short haircut, showing your earlobes.

Exercise facial muscles. (at least Bubble Chewing Gum)

Find optimal length of your facial hair, this looks like neglected. You should not look like somebody who is lazy to shave regularly.

Facial skin care. Get tanned, not too much.

Exercise appropriately whole body every day, start today, now, at the latest immediately.

Wear men's shirts with ties and men's jackets or vests. Find your manly styl.

Next time take a "prestige" pictures (shirt & tie & jackets & vests), whole body, standing, sitting. Put on your glasses properly, some pictures without it. Also propper light to avoid shades. Darker background, we don't need to see what pictures you have on the wall and your chair.

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Reddit user Jizera explains why they blame surgeons and physicians for performing SRS on desperate, vulnerable people, calling it a cynical, money-driven act that destroys lives.
12 pointsOct 13, 2019
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I do blame the surgeons and other physicians very much! This is simply cynical behavior, they do it for money. They are actually the most important players in this terrible game. The "bloody activists" can't force any surgeon to perform such surgeries. They have knowledge enough, they know what they are doing: They promis people that they could escape through a doorway that is only painted on the wall. People suffering from a serious trouble believe them, because it is natural to believe illusions and wishes if they are desperate. (I am neither trans not detrans). Nobody responsible and mentally healathy can be excsused for helping other people destructing themselves.

Reddit user Jizera explains that a daughter's sudden gender questioning may be a trauma response to a relationship with an older coworker, warns of the dangers of demonstrative suicide, and advises focusing on that core issue.
9 pointsMar 3, 2020
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It looks like her state is actually defense, like it is caused by a traumatic experience related to the place where you live. I guess that it is the "sexual relationship with a coworker, a man 30 years her senior". It can be an extremelly terrible experience even for a girl who is otherwise perfectly healthy. I think you need focus as mch as possible to this problem. She definitely needs somebody close to share the traumatizing story somehow, but if she is autistic, it is more difficult. Of course you should not yield to the suicidal emotional blackmailing, but be very cautious, because she could try a demostrative suicide, what could be very dangerous. People trying demonstrative suicide calculates that the person, they want to attack, will come and save them. I met two cases when the to be blackmailed rescuer missed the right moment by 10 minutes...

Reddit user Jizera comments on the limits of online connection, citing Kafka on how written words are an 'intercourse with ghosts' and cautioning that true love and understanding require direct human relationship.
8 pointsNov 19, 2019
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Love and understanding is always relationship between concrete human beings who can meet, communicate directly, share their burdens, sorrows, fears, joys or even happiness. Even the religious idea of being loved by a God is something very different. And here on reddit there are only written words. Various emotions arise in me when I read stories and sorrows of the people here but I don't dare say that I love them or that I understand them. It would have been only fantasizing.

Franz Kafka in Letters to Milena wrote:

The easy possibility of writing letters-from a purely theoretical point of view-must have brought wrack and ruin to the souls of the world. Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts and by no means just with the ghost of the addressee but also with one's own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing or even in a whole series of letters, where one letter corroborates another and can refer to it as witness. How did people ever get the idea they could communicate with one another by letter! One can think about someone far away and one can hold on to someone nearby; everything else is beyond human power. Writing letters, on the other hand, means exposing oneself to the ghosts, who are greedily waiting precisely for that. Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way. It is this ample nourishment which enables them to multiply so enormously. People sense this and struggle against it; in order to eliminate as much of the ghosts' power as possible and to attain a natural intercourse, a tranquility of soul, they have invented trains, cars, aeroplanes-but nothing helps anymore: These are evidently inventions devised at the moment of crashing. The opposing side is so much calmer and stronger; after the postal system, the ghosts invented the telegraph, the telephone, the wireless. They will not starve, but we will perish.

I'm surprised you haven't written about this yet, not in order to prevent or achieve something with its publication, it's too late for that, but at least to let "them" know they have been exposed.

Incidentally, "they" are also exposed by the exceptions, for it sometimes happens they let a letter through untouched, and it arrives like the light, kind handclasp of a friendly hand. But probably that also merely appears to be so; such cases may be the most dangerous of all, and should be guarded against more carefully than the others. On the other hand, if this is a deception, at least it is a complete one.

This is about writing personal letters. Writting and reading anonymous posts and comment written by people we don't know is much more strange and dangerous.

Reddit user Jizera explains why a user was likely banned from r/MtF for a post titled "Does anyone else feel lied to by trans community? It never gets better," advising them to disengage from trans-focused communities to heal.
7 pointsNov 6, 2019
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After checking your history, I think, that you was probably banned for your post titled Does anyone else feel lied to by trans community? It never gets better which was removed.

If the text of the post was similar to the post I don't know what to do anymore you send here, you are now probably considered too "toxic" for the MtF community, because it is too true and too terrible and desperate. I myself don't know how to help you to bear your burden and to find some happines. But for this moment seems me very good to try to cut your interactions with transsexual community and also with other sites dealing with transsexuality. They can only destroy you more and more, because they are focused on the source of your suffering and you need at least to broaden your field of vision to see not only your sexuality and your unrealizable desire. You need to find a way how to work for other people to be appreciated for things unrelated to sex and fill your life with positive activities unrelated to sex and your body and put your problems with sexuality somehow aside for some time.