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About me
I was born female and felt from a very young age that I was supposed to be a boy, so I started testosterone at 18. After nearly two years, my lifelong dysphoria completely vanished, and I realized I had confused hating being a woman with being a man. I stopped taking testosterone, but the hormone caused severe liver damage that nearly killed me. I'm now on medication I might need for life. My experience showed me that these feelings can change and that the medical risks are very real and dangerous.
My detransition story
My name isn't important, but my story is. I was born female and from the time I was just two years old, I had this deep, constant feeling that something was wrong with my body. I felt like I should have been a boy. This feeling, this gender dysphoria, stayed with me my entire childhood and teenage years. It never went away. I was told by doctors that it was permanent, that it would never leave me, so after a lot of thought, I decided to medically transition. I believed it was a mental or neurological illness, but I thought if I had to live with it forever, I would rather live as a man.
I started my medical transition when I was 18. I was put on hormone blockers for six months, even though I had already gone through female puberty. After that, I started taking testosterone. I was on T for almost two years. My hormone levels were always in the normal range for a man during that time.
But then, something huge happened that my doctors swore would never happen: my gender dysphoria just went away. It stopped. I stopped feeling like I was in the wrong body. I even started having daydreams about being a mother, which was a feeling I never thought I'd have. I realized that for me, a lot of my struggle was about hating being a woman, not necessarily feeling like I was a man. I also think I might have had body dysmorphia that I confused for gender dysphoria.
So, I decided to detransition. I stopped taking testosterone. My period came back very quickly, just 18 days after I was due for my next shot. But soon after stopping, I got very, very sick. I started having symptoms like tiredness, nausea, and my stomach felt weird. I went to the doctor and we found out my liver was in bad shape. My ALT levels were over 1085 when they should be between 0-41. I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. The doctors told me I almost died and was at one point on the list for a liver transplant. They said there was a 30% chance I could have died during the surgery.
No one in my family has any history of liver disease or autoimmune disorders; everyone lived a long life. My doctor believes the most likely cause was the testosterone. It seems the hormonal changes overloaded my liver. It was a terrifying wake-up call about how dangerous this can be, even with regular blood work. I'm doing better now with medication, but I might have to be on it for life.
My views are different from a lot of people in the queer community. I never really fit in there. I was always more conservative, and when some of my trans friends found out, they turned on me in a really horrible way. I've come to believe that non-binary isn't a real thing—you can be a masculine woman or a feminine man without changing your body. I think the focus should be on fixing the mind, not altering the body, especially because of the serious health risks.
I don't regret transitioning because at the time, I was genuinely suffering from what I believed was a permanent condition. But I am deeply concerned about the health impacts it had on me, and I am now strongly against medical transition for minors. I think my story shows that dysphoria can go away, even after many years, and that the medical interventions are not without serious, life-threatening risks.
Here is a timeline of my journey:
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | First experienced gender dysphoria, felt I should be a boy. |
| 18 | Started medical transition: 6 months of hormone blockers, then testosterone. |
| 19-20 | Was on testosterone for almost 2 years. |
| 20 | Gender dysphoria stopped. Decided to detransition and stopped testosterone. |
| 20 | Diagnosed with serious liver damage (autoimmune hepatitis) shortly after stopping T. |
| 20 | Underwent treatment and began recovery, potentially requiring lifelong medication. |
Top Comments by /u/Marta_Jorge:
You’ll never be a woman, transition will only make you realise that in the hard way, it did to me (but ftmtf instead). You look very feminine, and it’s ok for a man to be/look feminine, everybody’s different :) Do what’s best for your health. Try fixing your mind instead of changing your body. We’re all here to help you.
I don’t think most of your comments would be very helpful in a sense that you don’t have the same experiences as us. So I’m imagining your comments could be you defending some trans things (which we’re done of listening to) or being sympathetic towards us (which isn’t bad but that’s not what I personally want from non detrans people), I think we all want to hear from other detrans and their experiences so we don’t feel alone, and figure out the next steps. But I don’t see any problems on you commenting on more medical stuff because you also experienced and experience hormone treatment (but please not debating just experiences because we already deal with that a lot in other situations), so you can experience side effects or health issues like some of us did, or, commenting on before and after detrans pics and stuff. I don’t see a problem with this but according to the comments here I think others may not agree with me.
First of all, non-binary isn’t a real thing, you can feel masculine, feminine or neutral being either a man or a woman. If you feel comfortable with your femininity sometimes, even though not always, you should try to explore that and try to find out why you feel bad sometimes, and treat it rather than changing your body more. From what you told, it doesn’t seem like you have gender dysphoria, it seems more like a thing “I hate being a woman” rather than “I feel like a man”. Hope it helps
For me it was the opposite, I never liked the queer community even though I thought I was trans. I was a conservative even back then, and they hated on me, I had trans friends that found out about me being conservative, and they started sending me pics of mutilated people and saying I should die. I knew those people since I was 3 and 10yo. So I saw the bad stuff pretty early on and it’s quite a relief for me not having to explain that I’m not one of them every time someone knew I was trans.
I think you should do the best for your health. Taking testosterone for many years will most likely cause you health issues. You’re still on time to stop, you haven’t even been on testosterone for that long. It may be a tough process to go back but I think it’s the best you can do. I first considered detransitioning because I stopped feeling gender dysphoria, but I was thinking like you that I didn’t feel bad about living as a guy and stuff so I kept going. But then I started day dreaming about being a mum and things like that so I went back. Trust me, a lot can change in very little time, everything changed to me. But even if you never get feminine desires like i did, you should do what’s best for your health.
You completely pass as female you have nothing to worry about in that regard. I also understand the struggles, the voice has been annoying me tbh, I thought it didn’t bother me but now it started bothering me more. And yeah, I changed completely it weirdly almost looks like I was two different people. On the libido part I actually got a higher libido after stopping T, maybe I’m an exception to the rule idk, I’m not on birth control nor I intend to.
Omg im so proud of your friend too! It takes time, I think she’ll accept herself as a gay man eventually :)
The younger case i know personally in Portugal is a 4yo baby, we had the same therapists.. the kid transitioned medically at 13 but socially at 4… doenst been remember to be a boy..
Omg without blood work since 2021!? Your friend should at least have it 3 in 3 months I had 3 in 3 months and still had this, because it appears suddenly
I used to be pro adults deciding but after my case and others i started thinking a lot Thanks for sharing your experience
That’s terrible! Is your friend ok nowadays?
In my case I got a bunch of blood work, a gynaecologist exam, and a genetic test (not counting about questionnaires about my family health history). I don’t have any history of liver disease in my family and I still almost died and still am at a high risk of it because my liver is too overloaded(not as high as before because the medicine seems to be working) So even with further testing people can still get fucked up and thats scary, I have a friend on T and he already has heart problems, a weak auto imune system, and auto imune disorders, I worry about his health. But even telling him what happened to me he still says he’s gonna keep going and discarded me completely tbh, he didn’t even checked up on me to see if im alive..
Because I was genuinely sick. My gender dysphoria started at 2. I knew it was a mental illness but I thought it was going to last forever and if that was the case I’d rather live as a guy even though I knew I wasn’t one. But the dysphoria went away fortunately after 18. And I found meaning on very traditional gender roles.
Wow That’s interesting The brain washing really affect you, at least you’re aware of it. I’m probably a different case from most here. I never believed gender was a social construct, or that transitioning is good. I always thought it was a mental illness/neurological (I wasn’t sure) I had gender dysphoria from 2 to 18 and thought it wasn’t gonna go away so I thought carefully and transitioned. But the dysphoria went away something my doctors swore it wasn’t gonna go away. So I’m against transition for minors.