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Reddit user /u/SnooCompliments8762's Detransition Story

Transitioned: 15 -> Detransitioned: 20
female
low self-esteem
internalised homophobia
hated breasts
took hormones
regrets transitioning
trauma
depression
influenced online
influenced by friends
got top surgery
now infertile
homosexual
puberty discomfort
started as non-binary
anxiety
benefited from non-affirming therapy
sexuality changed
bisexual
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About me

I started identifying as trans as a teenager to escape the discomfort of female puberty and past trauma. I was quickly given testosterone and surgery by doctors who never questioned my underlying issues. I eventually realized I didn't hate being female, I just hated how women are treated in society. Now, I am a detransitioned woman living with permanent physical changes I deeply regret. I feel betrayed by the medical system and have found peace in accepting myself as a woman.

My detransition story

My journey with gender started when I was a teenager. I was around 15 when I first started identifying as non-binary, and then later as a trans man. I was really uncomfortable with my body, especially during puberty. I hated my breasts and felt deeply disconnected from being a girl. I now realize a lot of that came from trauma—I had been sexualized as a young girl and felt unsafe in my own skin. I also struggled with internalized misogyny and didn't see a future for myself as a woman. I thought that if I could just change my body, all those feelings would go away.

I was really influenced online and by my friends at the time, who were also exploring trans identities. It felt like a supportive community, but looking back, it was more of an echo chamber that encouraged medical transition without asking deeper questions. I started testosterone when I was 17 after only a few therapy sessions. My therapist and endocrinologist were overly affirming and didn't challenge me or explore the roots of my dysphoria. They didn't tell me about the serious health complications or that I might become infertile. My endo even told my dad that only 1% of people detransition, which wasn't true. I was a mentally unwell, suicidal teenager, and instead of getting the help I needed, I was given hormones.

When I was 19, I got top surgery—a double mastectomy. I told my surgeon I wasn't sure if I wanted a full mastectomy or just a reduction, but he didn't pause or refer me to more counseling. He just went ahead with it. I now see the surgery as a form of self-harm fueled by misogyny and trauma, not a solution to my problems.

I was on and off testosterone for about three years. During that time, my voice deepened, I grew facial hair, and my body changed in ways that are permanent. But eventually, I started to have doubts. I realized my dysphoria wasn't innate; it was social. I didn't hate being female—I hated how society treated women. I hated the narrow box we're forced into. I also began to understand that I'm bisexual, and that my attraction to women had been tangled up with internalized homophobia.

I decided to detransition when I was around 20. Stopping testosterone was hard, and reintegrating into life as a woman has been even harder. It took about two years for my face to soften and for people to start reading me as female again. My voice is still deeper than most women's, and I've had to do voice training to make it less masculine. I don't have breasts anymore, which sometimes makes me self-conscious, but I've learned to cope with breast forms and certain clothing.

I regret transitioning medically. I think it was the wrong choice for me and that I should have gotten non-affirming therapy instead—therapy that would have challenged me and helped me work through my trauma and self-esteem issues. I feel angry and betrayed by the medical professionals who allowed me to make such permanent decisions as a teenager. I blame my surgeon the most for operating on me when I expressed doubt.

Now, I see myself as a woman, but my experience of womanhood is non-traditional. I'm comfortable with that. I've distanced myself from the trans community and found solace among open-minded women, both straight and lesbian, who accept me as I am. I'm politically homeless—I don't align with the left anymore because of how they handle gender issues, but I'm not conservative either. I believe adults should have autonomy, but I strongly oppose medical transition for minors and think there should be stricter barriers for adults too.

I think gender is a social construct, and that most people who transition are dealing with underlying issues like trauma, autism, OCD, or internalized homophobia. Transitioning won't solve those problems. I hope that in the future, we see less medicalization of gender distress and more focus on real, therapeutic healing.

Here’s a timeline of my transition and detransition events:

Age Event
15 Started identifying as non-binary, influenced by online communities and friends.
17 Started testosterone after minimal therapy. Endo and therapist were overly affirming.
19 Had top surgery (double mastectomy). Surgeon did not address my doubts.
20 Stopped testosterone and began social detransition.
22 Consistently read as female again after about two years off hormones.
23 Continued voice training and working on self-acceptance as a detransitioned woman.

Top Reddit Comments by /u/SnooCompliments8762:

205 comments • Posting since May 29, 2021
Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) comments on the irony of trans-focused content in women's spaces, arguing that while trans women can be included, fundamental spaces for people born female should be respected.
103 pointsFeb 2, 2024
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Yeah it’s so weird how actuallesbians and twoxx have so much content concerning trans women because I mean… it’s ironic. They aren’t two x. It makes sense to me to include trans women who have integrated into society as women in certain spaces, but those spaces are still fundamentally for women. People born female living as female. And if a person can’t respect that those spaces were not originally made for them in mind, then they should get out and make their own damn place.

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) warns of a future wave of regret and suicides among "trans kids" who medically transitioned, condemning the medical industry and trans community for pushing irreversible procedures on minors.
94 pointsFeb 25, 2024
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I truly think in 10-30 years when the "trans kids" start to hit middle age, there will be so much regret. People are going to start realizing the toll HRT/surgery has on the body and/or that they don't feel like they're living authentically. I hate to say it, but I genuinely think there will be mass suicides. I am livid at the way the medical industry has taken advantage of dysphoric people, ESPECIALLY kids and adolescents, most of whom were just going through shit and would have been fine without the snake oil sale. I am livid that the trans community, with very few exceptions, pushed transition for minors, gave platforms to men who clearly just have fetishes, and lied about the effects of transition because they can't admit to themselves that they f*cked up. Detransition has been traumatic for me but I'm so glad I got out relatively early and have the chance to live normally.

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) explains the dismissal of female-born experiences within the transgender community, discussing the perceived privilege of transmen and non-binary people, the enduring impact of misogyny, and the silencing of lesbians and their concerns about their own spaces.
91 pointsMar 6, 2024
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Yep. Transmen and female nb ppl are treated like we are so much more privileged than transwomen, even the transwomen who don't pass for female/haven't started transition. Like, no. You do not understand misogyny and female-born people will always deal with it in one way or another, even if they go stealth. This compounds with a lot of transwomen dismissing female concerns about our spaces and how lesbians in particular are treated for not being attracted to them. Wish they would stop talking over women for two seconds.

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) comments on predatory behavior, explaining that even when she identified as trans, she never expected gay men to be attracted to her and finds it disrespectful and childish.
67 pointsFeb 1, 2024
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So sorry you've dealt with that, that's so stupid. I do not understand what possesses people to act like this. When I identified as trans I didn't expect gay men to be into me for... very obvious reasons lmao. Like why is it so hard to just be respectful. This is such childish and quite frankly predatory behavior

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) expresses fury at WPATH revelations, condemning doctors and therapists for providing non-FDA approved hormones and surgery to young people they call "lazy" and "sick" butchers who deserve jail.
65 pointsMar 9, 2024
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I'm like 20 pages in and I can't. I AM LIVID. These "doctors" are SICK. I am so fucking tired of people bending over backwards to defend them, them, the fucking surgeons and the fucking therapists that enable all this shit and throw dangerous, non-FDA approved cross-sex hormones at (mostly) young people because they're too FUCKING LAZY to do their gdamn jobs. Anyone trying to defend these people - don't bother. Don't waste your breath. Most understand that they are providing permanent solutions to temporary problems. They understand that these kids/teens don't comprehend what they're getting into and they don't care. They don't care at all!!

Fuck these people. They all deserve to be thrown in jail. There's a few I can think of off the top of my head that don't deserve life as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely disgusting butchery of children and adolescents.

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) explains common factors for detransitioners, citing high rates of SA, being gay/bi, and internalized misogyny, and warns that validating nonbinary identity as dissociation from sex will "blow up in 10 years."
65 pointsJan 19, 2024
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Yeah, there’s definitely signs for females/males that transition isn’t right and something else is going on. Ime too soooo many of the detrans women I’ve met were SA’d, and then so many of us are gay/bi and have a ton of internalized misogyny. It’s literally heartbreaking to me when young women say they’re nonbinary because they don’t “feel like a woman.” I hate when people validate it because like, no you ARE a woman but you are dissociating from your sex. This is all going to blow up in 10 years

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) compares gender-affirming surgery to BIID amputation, arguing both are unethical procedures that victimize the mentally unwell.
64 pointsApr 1, 2024
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tbh transition through amputation of body parts (breasts, genitalia) is just normalized, well.... amputation. It's extremely unethical but I don't think a lot of people realize that because they don't understand the mentality of a dysphoric person, or a person so distressed by their limbs they want to remove them. Both are mental disorders. The difference is that people cheer on the surgeons who butcher dysphoric people and condemn the ones that remove limbs, ribs, etc. Like, I was crazy enough to get a double mastectomy because it was framed as life saving medical care. In the end, it's kids/teens and the extremely mentally unwell that are victimized by procedures like this.

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) predicts a major backlash against the trans community, arguing that the push for youth transition and hostility toward dissent will lead to a "day of reckoning."
63 pointsFeb 5, 2024
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I think we’re going to see a HUGE backlash against transition and trans people in the next 20 years, particularly because so many young people and literal children are transitioning. If trans stuff had been contained to a small percentage of the adult world and trans activists focused on respect and compassion for those suffering from GD (not necessarily agreeing with them! Just caring about trans people and their basic civil rights), then none of this would be a problem. But because huge amounts of trans communities are so dogmatic and hostile to people with questions/people who challenge aspects of transition, more everyday people are going to turn on them. People are getting sick of the trans community and the lgbt community in general, which sucks - I particularly feel this way about normal, well adjusted trans people. They are going to get fucked so hard because the trans community has pushed out any dissenters in favor of peddling ridiculous, impractical ideas about gender.

Mark my words there’s going to be a day of reckoning, and it won’t be pretty for any of us, including detransitioners. I hope that regardless some of us will get justice

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) explains her negative experiences with MTF individuals, describing a pattern of fetishized ideals of womanhood, misogyny, and assault, and cites Blaire White as an example of a sexualized caricature.
59 pointsMar 2, 2024
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I think a lot of MTFs have a very idealized version of womanhood, often very fetishized. Now I don't believe all trans women are malicious or predatory, but I have personally seen a LOT of misogyny, disrespect, and even assault from trans women. Sooo many of the TW I've met clearly thought of me as a piece of meat. I look back on my interactions with, actually, all of them and can't help but think to myself, you were always just a man. Idk even TW who have integrated into womanhood sometimes make me feel uncomfortable, like Blaire White. She just sexualizes herself so much and has also said some really misogynistic stuff, like being catty towards masc women, implying they're not "good at being women" because they're GNC. While I do not think she is a threat to women, unlike certain str8 AGP types, I honestly feel that she is a male putting on a highly sexualized caricature of females and I do find it insulting. I have a hard time trusting TW specifically because of all the terrible experiences I've had with them.

Reddit user SnooCompliments8762 (detrans female) questions why being critical of gender ideology is equated with being right-wing, arguing that true conservatives would not support GNC, gay, and feminist detransitioners.
58 pointsFeb 14, 2024
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So dumb. Why is it that people like this equate questioning yourself and by extension the concept of gender to being right wing? There is nothing conservative about it. Do they really think the right would support us as we are, as gays, highly GNC people, and feminists? There’s no way. They just can’t stand we have a different perspective and throw the conservative label at us to discredit our experiences.