This story is from the comments by /u/LostSoul1911 that are listed below, summarised with AI.
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The user's comments show a highly detailed, personal, and emotionally complex narrative of transitioning as a teenager, having a mastectomy, detransitioning, and the long, difficult process of physical and psychological recovery. The story is internally consistent over a multi-year period, with evolving perspectives and a focus on personal healing. The language is natural, with personal anecdotes, emotional shifts, and specific details (e.g., product names like "Barry's tricopherous," specific timelines, and interactions with family and doctors) that are characteristic of a genuine lived experience. The passion and criticism towards gender clinics and "gender ideology" align with the expected perspective of someone who feels harmed by their transition.
About me
My journey started with childhood trauma that made me feel unsafe in my body as a woman. I transitioned to male at 16, thinking it was the answer, but I was never truly happy and my mental health got worse. After top surgery, I realized I was just trying to escape being sexualized and finally detransitioned. I now have to live with permanent changes like a deeper voice and no breasts, which I deeply regret. I'm finally healing, embracing being a woman again, and rebuilding my life.
My detransition story
My journey started with trauma. When I was six or seven, I was sexually abused. As I grew older and entered my teen years, I felt scared and uncomfortable because of how older men looked at me and made inappropriate comments. I didn’t understand why I felt so sad and started dressing differently to hide my body. I didn’t know what gender dysphoria was back then—I just knew my body felt like a problem.
When I found out about transgender people online, I thought that was my answer. I identified with them because I also felt my body was wrong. I started socially transitioning before I turned 15, and at 16, I began testosterone. I was on it for almost three years. During that time, I felt like I couldn’t be feminine anymore. I wouldn’t let myself wear certain clothes, use certain colors, or do things I used to enjoy, like painting my nails or wearing makeup. I did those things for my friends instead, telling myself, "I can’t do that—I’m a guy now."
Testosterone made me feel good at first—it gave me an emotional boost—but I was never truly happy. I was deeply depressed, hurting myself, and overdosing on prescription pills. I ended up in the hospital multiple times. I kept searching for a reason why I was trans, asking, "Why me?" but I never found an answer.
I had top surgery just after I turned 18. After the surgery, I stood in front of the mirror naked, looking at my flat chest, and felt nothing. I kept thinking, "This is what I wanted, so why aren’t I happy? What’s left?" It was during the lockdown in 2020 that I finally faced the truth. I realized my desire to transition wasn’t about gender—it was about fear and trauma. I was trying to escape being sexualized and feeling unsafe as a woman.
I detransitioned before turning 19. Telling my parents was hard, but they were supportive. My mom woke up at 2 a.m. to comfort me, and my dad said he always knew I was a girl. They told me everything could be fixed, and I was lucky to have their support.
Since detransitioning, I’ve had to deal with the permanent changes testosterone caused. I hate my Adam's apple and my deeper voice. My skin, which was once clear, broke out badly, and I grew thick body and facial hair. I had laser hair removal, which helped, but some changes are forever. I also lost my breasts forever because of the surgery. Some days, I regret it deeply and cry over what I’ve done. Other days, I feel stronger and more focused on my goals.
My period returned about six months after stopping testosterone, but my hormones and emotions were a roller coaster for a long time. I’ve learned to accept that my body will never be exactly what it was, but many things have improved—my skin softened, my body hair thinned, and my curves came back. I’ve worked on voice training to sound more feminine, and it’s helped.
I now see that my transition was a way to cope with trauma and low self-esteem—not a true identity. I believe gender ideology can confuse young people, especially those who are vulnerable or struggling. I wasn’t encouraged to explore my trauma in therapy—doctors just affirmed my desire to transition without questioning why I felt that way.
I don’t regret the friendships and experiences I had while living as male, but I deeply regret the permanent changes I made to my body. I’ve learned to embrace my femininity again and live as the woman I am. I’m dating, going to university, and rebuilding my life. It’s been a long, painful journey, but I’m finally healing.
Here’s a timeline of my transition and detransition:
Age | Event |
---|---|
6-7 | Sexually abused |
Early teens | Felt uncomfortable with sexual attention, started dressing differently |
14 | Socially transitioned to male |
16 | Started testosterone |
18 | Had top surgery (mastectomy) |
18 | Detransitioned, stopped testosterone |
19 | Period returned |
20+ | Continued healing, laser hair removal, voice training |
Top Reddit Comments by /u/LostSoul1911:
I'm sorry you went through this. Teenagers don't really think straight, teenager brains haven't even finished developing and they're allowed to make big decisions they're not ready to take.
I also had a mastectomy, like two months after I turned 18, and regretted it in less than half a year.
Regret might stay for a while, but you'll eventually move on if you work on letting go. I looked for all sort of reconstruction options, watched videos and read like crazy about the topic, but someone here opened my eyes and made me see the dangers of breast implants, and many people here told me being flat doesn't make me ugly and less of a woman, this helped me a lot to accept the best would be to work towards accepting my body as it is now rather than changing it more.
In 2020 (year of my detransition) I found Clara Dao's channel, and it helped me a lot to change my view about my flat chest. It's not easy, I cried a lot, I used a bra a few times, and at the end I just feel comfortable being flat, there's nothing to hide, nothing to fake, I don't have to worry about breast implant illness or about checking for ruptures or knowing I have to change implants every certain time, I'm just living like any other normal woman and that's how people always read me naturally. Elle Palmer's youtube channel also helped me a lot in 2020.
Accepting your body isn't easy, specially after growing up with an idea of a "perfect body" and after going through all this. But, I, who thought it was impossible, can tell you it's totally possible and rewarding to forgive yourself, heal, accept your body and love it. I'm beautiful, I'm finally confident, I wear the clothes I like, I'm living a normal life, I'm dating someone. Girl, I swear there's nothing better than healing, self acceptance and self love, this three things are key to grow after detransitioning, and even if they're hard to achieve, it's totally worth it to work for it. I detransitioned at 18, now I'm almost 21, it's been a long process, heavy like an emotional roller coaster, but it's totally possible to move on and feel great.
You're a woman, your body simply shows, idk if you used hormones, but if you did your body will get it's shape back and people will naturally read you as the woman you are, people will find you pretty and many will find you attractive.
Also, there are many women with flat chests, naturally and after surgery, and they're stunning.
Feel free to dm me if you want to ask me anything.
If it's hard to deal with that bs in english, a language that doesn't have every single thing gendered, imagine how it is in spanish. My mother tongue is spanish, in here we gender every single thing: Food, objects, emotions, etc, everything, lmao. Seeing people trying to force this gender neutrality in my language is funny because of how ridiculously stupid it sounds, but also scary af because the stupid gender neutrality movement is gaining power and slowly gets more followers.
Is a trend rn, there's a label for every single stereotype that's being reinforced, this is a problem that just keeps getting bigger cuz more and more people go around saying the same bs to other people. Omg, so brave! So gorgeous/handsome! You got this! We support you! #loveandacceptance #biologyisntreal
You cannot be what you're not, you cannot be a woman if you're born male. There's a reason why trans overdose their bodies with hormones that are not meant for their bodies, there's a reason why they chop their body parts off. I know what doctors in gender clinics say, but you gotta understand that's a matter of money, you're not a woman and you'll never be one. But you can some day in the future be a happy man if you start to accept reality rather than trying so hard to deny it everyday. The further you walk in the wrong path the longer it'll take to go back to realign with your truth.
The answer is very short and you can find the proof by yourself basically in any social media.
Real trans people are a minority, a real minority. And they are normal people like Blair White or Buck Angel.
The majority nowdays are just unstable people who were literally mentally contaminated by the gender ideology, social contagion.
Your boyfriend is making a huge mistake rn, he could prevent a more difficult future by desisting of that idea and getting good therapy that isn't affirmative, neither trans focused but focusing on solving his problems and recofnizing whatever caused them, focusing on him as a person and not about that new gender identity, a big red flag you see in people who are confused is that suddenly every problem and their wellbeing depend solely on their new gender identity, with time the problems will naturally persist and when they're matire enough to face them they'll see transition wasn't the answer and that gender wasn't their problem. He should also get far from anything lgbt related and have some time in nature with no lgbt content in social media, nothing, being in a place where he can focus on himself as a person only.
Thinking that every problem he has is rooted in being trans is a huge sign that he's making a huge mistake.
Everyone here thought transitioning would be the solution, all doctors from MANY different clinics around the world thought it would be the solution, yet we all ended up detransitioning, doesn't that tell you something? You can either learn from the mistakes of millions of others or go through the same painful mistakes and eventually be part of the regret club🤷🏻♀️
Had a mastectomy at 18 while I was still pretty stupid. I'm 20 and although I already cried the loss of my breasts and always go flat, I feel as time passes I've been starting to become even more aware of what I did and I'm starting to grief again, just in a different way. You're not alone.
Tbh, I see a rainbow flag or a trans flag and I just feel disgusted. There's normal lgb people, but when you see so many flags and weird looking people, just no, spaces where those people are just feel suffocating because of the amount of nonsense they speak, and when they start talking about pronouns and in inclusive language it just feels like enough and I leave if possible (In university this is common, you can't avoid it every time).
There are two kind of trans identifying people.
One kind are the ones who believe they're the opposite sex, they just believe it and they suffer because of that, they're just too deep into the gender bs, screaming a dick is a vagina and viceversa, hating everyone who disagrees or tries to knock some sense on them, overloading with love and support anyone who start doubting about themselves.
The other kind, there's a few I've seen on the internet that look like normal people, and think straight, think logically, they're aware of biology and know that what's going on this days is nonsense. They just don't seem lost, they know what they are biologically and seem to know what they're doing to their bodies. I'm ok with the second kind of trans identifying people.
Oh my, the oppression, poor lgtv2+ community, so unrepresented, so missunderstood and unsupported. It must be so hard to only have by your side multiple countries, a lot of multinational companies, small bussiness, schools and churches and to even have your own day (basically a month) to shove rainbows down everyone's throats.
It's never enough for them to feel better about their existence, wonder why?
I know a lot of those teenagers on tik tok are going to detransition and I hope the best for them, that they wake up from their daydream before getting surgery and hopefully don't spend too long on hrt. I don't judge them for being brainwashed and not listening, I was a stupid teen too. Also, it sucks that they do this kind of videos, then when some of them start realizing they want to detransition they'll be scared of doing so, this happened years ago with a vid that trans guy kalvin uploaded.