This story is from the comments by /u/Odd-Control that are listed below, summarised with AI.
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The user's narrative is highly specific, emotionally complex, and internally consistent over a four-year period. It details a personal journey from identifying as FTM to detransitioning, including specific medical timelines, evolving feelings about dysphoria, and the lasting effects of testosterone. The language is personal, nuanced, and includes self-contradictory emotions (e.g., being glad for top surgery but regretting voice changes) that are hallmarks of a genuine human experience. The later, more ideological comments are a direct extension of their stated personal experience with feeling silenced by trans women in the community, which aligns with a known perspective among some detransitioners. The passion and anger are consistent with a person who feels harmed.
About me
My journey began as a teenager when I started dressing masculinely and identified as a trans man. I started testosterone at 21 and had top surgery, which actually solved my real dysphoria and made me realize I no longer needed hormones. I now see I'm an autistic lesbian who was always just a woman that didn't conform to stereotypes. I regret my voice change from testosterone, but I don't regret my surgery. My path was necessary to discover my true self, and I've found peace as a non-binary lesbian.
My detransition story
My whole journey with gender started when I was a teenager. I began to dress more masculine back in 2014, when I was around 18. At first, I identified as non-binary. Then, by 2015, I thought I was a trans guy. I got referred to a gender doctor at the end of that year, but I started to have doubts almost immediately. I kept putting the appointments off because I was rethinking everything. By late 2016, I decided to get back in touch for a new appointment. It was a long process, and I didn't actually start testosterone until October 2017, when I was 21. It wasn't quick; I had a lot of time to think, but I was so sure I needed it.
I did have moments of doubt before starting testosterone. I wish now that I had listened to those doubts more instead of just going with it because I was confused, alone, and thought it was my only option. But back then, if anyone had told me to stop and think about it more or wait until I was older, I would have been furious. I was incredibly dysphoric and felt I needed to take hormones to relieve that feeling. I had bad dysphoria for a good three years before starting T.
The testosterone did help relieve my dysphoria for a while. But I realised that my main source of dysphoria was actually my chest. I hated my breasts. After I got top surgery, everything changed. I started to get dysphoric from the testosterone itself because I didn't feel I needed it anymore. The main problem had been solved by the surgery. I stopped T in August 2019.
I don't regret my top surgery at all; it was good for me and relieved the discomfort I felt. But I do have some regrets about other aspects. I'm now uncomfortable with how my voice changed from testosterone. At first, I said I was glad my voice changed, but now I dislike it so much and feel ashamed to admit it because I did this to myself. I'm secretly trying voice training to hopefully sound more feminine again.
A huge part of my experience was realising I am an autistic lesbian. The stereotypical gender stuff always confused me because everything about society is confusing when you have autism. I think that made me believe I had to be a man to reject society's idea of identity. In reality, I'm just a gender non-conforming lesbian. A large part of that is because I'm autistic. I've always felt pretty neutral about my gender since I was a young child—just nothing. What I really meant by that was I liked what I liked, and I never cared about stereotypes. I get really happy from my special interests, and that's that.
I could still identify as non-binary because of how I feel about stereotypes and presentation, and I do in some circles so I don't feel alienated from my trans and non-binary friends. But ultimately, I am a woman who doesn't give a crap about pronouns or labels anymore.
My time in the trans community was a very lonely experience. I felt that trans men are so ignored and silenced to let trans women speak. It felt like I went from being a powerless female in society to a powerless masculine person within the trans community, and it was often trans women causing that dynamic. Males, even after transition, still seemed to hold onto that male privilege and talk over everyone else. It made me angry and eventually helped me see things more clearly.
I also became very aware of how many men seem to transition for sexual reasons, something often called autogynephilia (AGP). Seeing so many posts online from trans women talking about discovering their identity through pornography and getting aroused by the idea of being a woman was disturbing. It felt like a very male-centric, sexual thing that was completely different from my own experience as a female who transitioned. It’s scary how many people encourage it as a valid reason to transition instead of acknowledging it might just be a kink.
Now, I identify as a non-binary lesbian. I don't think all detrans people regret their transition. I wouldn't know who I am today without going down this path. I had to do it to figure myself out. It isn't a total mess-up of your life if you medically transition and then realise it's not for you. My journey wasn't straightforward—I'm no longer on hormones, but the top surgery was right for me.
I’ve also come to realise I might be asexual. Sometimes I feel glad because I can’t imagine being intimate with anyone or being found attractive ever again. It’s sad to feel so empty, but it feels like a safety blanket. I hate myself too much, and it’s an excuse, as I want to be loved but feel I never will be.
Here is a timeline of my transition and detransition events:
Year | My Age | Event |
---|---|---|
2014 | 18 | Started dressing masculinely; identified as non-binary. |
2015 | 19 | Thought I was a trans guy; got referred to a gender doctor. |
Late 2016 | 20 | Got back in touch for a new appointment after having doubts. |
Oct 2017 | 21 | Started testosterone (T). |
2019 | 23 | Had top surgery. |
Aug 2019 | 23 | Stopped testosterone. |
2020 onwards | 24+ | Identified as a non-binary lesbian and detransitioned socially. |
Top Reddit Comments by /u/Odd-Control:
Omfg the men in the comments here still trying to act like their transition was innocent and not based off false ideas what it means to be female. That and sexualising everything of course. If you’re going to engage in discussions try not defending why you thought you could take some pills and become a female.
This is so upsetting. I think trans women get this because the results from the outside look fine sometimes, it slightly resembles a natal vagina. But the problems that come from it are so scary, and likely not explained in full from greedy doctors. I know trans people are obsessed with aesthetics, I was too and am trying to overcome it.
Anyone living with this, I’m so sorry. I hope you can get the medical attention you need. I’d love to hear people’s experiences from detrans males who had bottom surgery.
i feel the same way right now. it hurts... i’m also scared to admit to the people around me i dislike how i sound, as “i’m still glad my voice changed” was something i said when first coming off T. now i dislike it so much, but am ashamed to admit it, bc i did this to myself.
i wish you luck. i am attempting voice training secretly and hopefully will gradually sound more feminine again
Having to be belittled as a trans man by trans women, apparently because we as trans men are oppressors to them, is laughable. Everything about trans woman is so male and we are all under their control because they cry they are most oppressed. I went from being a powerless female in society to a powerless masculine person in trans community and who causes it all? Males. Many people within trans community won’t speak out or will continue to be manipulated by ideology, coming out the other side, angry about how things are, come off as “transphobic” but these things are just fact that get ignored all to save some male’s feelings of “dysphoria”. Now, I am an empowered female who speaks out against this stuff, it’s all such nonsense.
I definitely relate to wanting to be ignorant about trans people. I wish I could be an ally and support them, it’s easy if it’s not personal. All of my friends are trans but I just see them as them. But as someone who was in that community, and knows how trans women dominate the space, aka males continuing to oppress females, it makes me so angry. I am waiting and waiting for it to be addressed, how tf there can progressive gender ideology include “man dresses up as a woman to get most oppressed points but still gets the spotlight everywhere and claims trans men can oppress them”
Really, what makes them a woman??? I see 85% of them on the MtF subreddit talk about getting turned on dressing feminine and that’s their entire basis for thinking they are a woman. They all claim AGP isn’t real. NO trans man transitions because of seeing prn, because they get wet seeing themselves in boxer shorts. That subreddit constantly telling prn-riddled men to transition. How have so many people become braindead to the point they think these men are women because it satisfies them sexually?! It’s sick.
It’s very difficult to see how blind everyone is, or maybe they aren’t. Maybe they think it’s fine to transition because of prn, which is confusing. It’s all about sexual stuff with males
You think a woman trying to become male is the same? Then you have no sympathy for what it means to be female.
I have sympathy for men who transitioned from trauma, abuse, etc. I know not all of it is the same, some are wronged by doctors, others trying to escape. But this post is about AGPs so that is what my response is about.
I definitely understand this, especially seeing someone use “she/they” and “he/they” for when they are GNC but is obviously not thinking of medically transitioning. Kind of a safety net, avoiding not conforming, instead making a new label.
GNC will save us from this madness though. If people can just know it’s ok to present however they want and it doesn’t mean you should try to change genders, we will go back to only having true trans people, aka very few
Like?! Aren’t they suppose to lose some of their libido on E? And I’m sure it’s somewhere but not as often, I never see this much sexualising from trans men despite their libido being increased on testosterone? It’s almost like females can resist the urge to be sexual in public because they know it’s inappropriate and makes people uncomfortable.
I always found it creepy but thought I just had to put up with it. I explained in a previous post how I went from being an oppressed female in society who got talked over, to being talked over in the trans community, and how male privilege will exist in whatever place you think of, even if people have “transitioned sexes”
If we apply that in the opposite way: I had a feeling I was a guy since I was around 7 years old, but it did not stop me being sexualised as a child because of being female, bullied by males because I wasn’t a stereotypical attractive girl, etc. Like there is no way privilege doesn’t exist growing up as a boy/man, even if one has felt like a girl for a long time, people didn’t know that, and they were treated male, and had to somewhat blend in as male, benefitting from said privilege. Idk!! This argument is always made only for trans women, nobody has ever been passionate to advocate “I had male privilege as AFAB because I knew I was a boy” likeeee. There is so much we have to ignore for trans women, they get the biggest amount of attention, and isn’t that the most male thing ever, lol