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Reddit user /u/creustmas's Detransition Story

Transitioned: 14 -> Detransitioned: 18
female
hated breasts
regrets transitioning
influenced online
puberty discomfort
only transitioned socially
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About me

I'm a female who, from a young age, desperately wanted to be male, a feeling that intensified with puberty. I planned to medically transition but was held back, and I later began to question why I felt such deep discomfort with my body. I realized my dysphoria was rooted in societal misogyny and a romanticized view of being male, not in a true need to change my sex. I never took hormones or had surgery, and while the dysphoria still comes in waves, I've found peace through body neutrality and focusing on my health. I now believe I dodged a bullet and have found strength in accepting myself as a masculine woman.

My detransition story

My whole journey with gender has been complicated, but I never went through with any medical transition. I’m a female, and from a young age, I remember always wanting to be male. This feeling got stronger when I hit puberty. I hated the changes happening to my body, especially developing breasts. It felt wrong, like my body was betraying me. I started spending a lot of time online, and that’s where I found communities that seemed to have the answers. I began using a neutral name and pronouns online because it felt like a safe space to explore.

For a long time, I seriously planned to start testosterone and get top surgery as soon as I turned 18. I was deeply dysphoric. But something held me back, mainly the knowledge that my parents wouldn't understand. Looking back, that might have been a blessing. I started to question the whole idea of transition after I learned about gender critical and abolitionist ideas. It made me look at my dysphoria differently. I started to ask myself tough questions about why I felt this way.

I realized that a lot of my discomfort was tied to being a woman in a society that sexualizes and shames female bodies from a very young age. I thought about how we’re taught to hate our bodies, to see them as objects. I also had to confront my own internalized ideas about womanhood. I asked myself, did I really want male genitalia, or was I just envious of the social power and safety men seem to have? Was my hatred of my breasts about them being female, or about the unwanted attention they could bring? I had a kind of womb envy, too, a romanticized idea of pregnancy and menstruation that ignored the real pain and hardship involved.

I never took hormones or had surgery, so I’m a desister, not a detransitioner. My dysphoria hasn't completely gone away. I still have bad waves of it, especially around my period, but it’s less intense than it used to be. I’ve learned to practice body neutrality. I don’t have to love my body every second, but I can accept that it’s me, and that it’s the result of thousands of years of evolution. It works. I try to focus on my health—eating well, staying active—which has helped my mental state a lot.

I don’t believe gender identity can change your sex. Sex is a biological reality, hard-coded in our genes like our blood type. Transition, in my view, creates a caricature of the opposite sex; it doesn't actually change your sex. I think the current movement pushes a flawed logic, especially on young, confused kids. I’ve seen online spaces where there’s clear grooming into these ideas, and it worries me. I think for many, dysphoria is a mental health issue influenced by society, trauma, and other factors like low self-esteem or depression, and it should be treated with therapy, not immediately with hormones and surgery.

I don’t regret not transitioning. I feel like I dodged a bullet. I’m critical of the gender ideology that dominates online spaces because I think it erases the reality of biological sex and the specific oppression women face. I’ve found more peace in accepting that I am a female, and that womanhood doesn’t have to look one specific way. I can be a masculine woman, that’s okay. You just have to live your life as you are.

Here is a timeline of my journey based on my experiences:

Age Event
Early Puberty (around 11-13) Started feeling intense discomfort with my female body, especially breast development. Wanted to be male.
Mid-Teens (around 14-17) Spent significant time online in trans communities. Socially transitioned online using a neutral name and pronouns. Seriously planned to medically transition at 18.
Late Teens (around 18) Began questioning transition after exposure to gender-critical ideas. Critically examined the roots of my dysphoria (societal misogyny, internalized homophobia, romanticism of male experience). Decided against medical intervention.
Present Day (20s) Live as a desisted female. Experience occasional waves of dysphoria but manage it through body neutrality, focusing on health, and rejecting gender ideology.

Top Comments by /u/creustmas:

44 comments • Posting since September 13, 2021
Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) explains why they believe some people resort to accusations of transphobia when faced with critiques of gender-affirming care for children.
49 pointsFeb 6, 2022
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I think they go straight to such attacks like transphobe and terf because they know their politics and overall behavior as a "community" are extremely doubtful when it comes to what they claim to represent/encourage, and know you even talking about your experiences can put them at the center of (any sort of) criticism, which in their view, is transphobic regardless of what is critiqued.

I'm not even talking about terfs or transphobes "using" these stories to promote their opinions, but the general critique of a movement that supports damaging children's health. The moment someone leaves the cult and speaks up, their facade of being the weak, small, yet loving and accepting community, is challenged a bit, and for them criticism of their ideologies is comparable with threats and violence towards them.

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) explains their disgust with "egg culture," arguing that being sexually aroused by misogynistic slurs does not make someone transgender.
49 pointsJun 30, 2022
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Egg culture annoys me because some of it is "i got called a [insert insult directed at females, that imply female body parts or animals] and it made me hard my egg is cracking" It's honestly so gross and offensive. Liking being called b*, c*, s** etc. Does NOT make you trans, nor does it make you any more a woman than you were before.

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) discusses how being told to "just come out as trans" for opposing youth medicalization began their disillusionment with "egg culture."
27 pointsJun 30, 2022
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Less than a year ago i went "you shouldn't put kids under irreversible treatments" and someone legit told me "it's not too late to drop the facade of trandmisogyny and just come out as trans, if you apologize the trans community might forgive you and let you in".

Like first of all, why just trasmisogyny, my statement was transmisandrist as it was trnasmisogynistic, so that was just kinda weird. But everything else too. Literally brownie points, and the idea of Becoming Trans which gains even more popularity... It spreads like wildfire and that sort of messages as i showed here are like the nicest most tolerant of a moments you get for saying something so "controversial". Theres control of speech and of the press of things like medical journals. It's so saddening. It was part of my begining of social trabsition, idk if others, too, but i know I was not that naive, i really believed in it.

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) explains that biological sex is more than reproduction, determining bodily functions and balance, and discusses the societal separation of women's minds from their bodies.
26 pointsNov 28, 2021
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Your sex is so much more than a reproductive tool, it determines your body functions, these organs have such important roles in keeping your body balanced.

We don't accept the societal norms that come with it. We don't rediscover womanhood because we've been treated like women even when identifying as something else.

Most women don't feel connection to being a woman. Society separates a women's mind, soul, and self from their bodies, we are firstly bodies for society, sexual tool, instead of people, which are mind and body combined.

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) comments on a detransition timeline post, complimenting OP's hair and praising their natural appearance after stopping HRT.
25 pointsNov 16, 2021
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I love, love, LOVE your hair. Idk how you make it so... Calm. Mine is going everywhere 😂. Lemme just say, both photos are beautiful, but you do seem much more natural on the second one. I'm very proud of you for choosing to detransition, its a difficult decision to make. Here's hoping you'll be happier asap <3

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) compares medical transition of minors to giving liposuction to anorexic children, arguing that irreversible treatments are criminal for those too young to consent.
23 pointsJan 16, 2022
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"kinda sounds like prolifers[.] [Just because] it didn't work out for you doesn't mean you can take that choice away from others [.]"
This is one of the worst takes I've seen. gnc and gay children are being put under hormonal treatments that damage irreversibly their endocrine system. "take the choice away from others" ? Really? Maybe we should give anorexic kids medications to inhibit their appetite, to puke, etc.? Maybe give them liposuctions? I mean it's their ~choice~, right? And children aged 13 are fully capable of making choices compos mentis, that's why they drink alcohol and smoke, after asking adults to buy them vodka and cigarettes.

Maybe lower the age of consent? Because a 13 years old child is fully capable of knowing what they want and what it means?

Maybe we should let short/far sighted kids get intraocular replacement surgery, even when the real problem is:

  • myopia
  • the cornea being thicker than it should be
  • the optic nerve being somewhat weirdly placed.

And IOL is at least not as dangerous to all other systems the way that even "just" HRT is.

It is possible to actually wait and see what happens in the following years. It's possible to speak to a child and tell them their sex is unchangeable, that they can wear and like what they want without going under the scalpels, or under medications that will inflict irreversible damages.

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) explains why female bodies are not primarily designed for reproduction, citing miscarriage rates, survival advantages, non-reproductive organ functions, and linguistic biases.
16 pointsNov 28, 2021
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Female bodies aren't actually made for reproduction first, it's a common misconception. Many pregnacies of fully healthy women end in a miscarriage in the first days, even before the pregnancy is actually received. Rejection of potentially healthy offspring clearly shows reproduction isn't the main function of that.

Us females are built for survival. Our immune system is much better than our male counterparts'. We have much higher chances of survival of famines, of drought, and of travel if long distances, like the ice ages' human emigration. During pregnancy women's be dies no longer have these functions in the same way, but less, meaning that pregnancy is actually unfavored for the body. It's more a necessity of human survival, but women's bodies aren't "meant" for that, they're barely built for it, throughout the evolutional process of the straightening of the back of humans, the size, placement, and structure of the reproductive system was left essentially unchanged, even though it didn't have any help to it. This wasnt changed for thousands of years of evolution, despite low survival rates of both mothers and infants.

The uterus and the ovaries produce hormones that affect so much more than reproduction, they affect your heart's health, your nervous system, your brain.

The clitoris has no reproductive function. It's only there for pleasure. Whole men's pleasure is prerequisit for reproduction, the urethra (the tube leading urine to dispose it) in men is used for both urine and semen, while women have two different exits, it's cleaner and lets your vagina balance its own pH levels.

Vaginas have a self-cleaning quality. The area's pH, bacterial, etc. balances are self-maintained.

If women are only meant for reproduction, it means women who can't have children are less female, and this is not true.

I also want to show how Female ≠ meant to be pregnant.

Spotted Hyenas – enlarged clitoris, resembling a penis, for the females. Birth is painful, horrible, and life risking for the females. Pandas and Giraffes often crush their offering during delivery.

Hysterectomies aren't dangerous because the woman won't be able to have children, but because it fills other functions, in regards to hormonal balance (without it, you'd have osteoporosis much sooner), heat waves, and the likes. It's not a punishment, it's just something that happens. It also happens when these hormones are discharged/secreted less. Men suffer less from it because their bodies have less complex functions, but as they grow older the chances of cancer in the urinal system heighten.

Females are not meant for reproduction, they turned out to be those with (much) larger gametes that aren't easily transferred, unless you are a seahorse. And because of that, that sort of reproduction survived. Not to mention fact that females are able to reproduce only in certain periods (haha) of time, be it mating season for animals or the week before the period in the human menstruation cycle, which is when women can get pregnant. Men, however,,, men, and makes in general, are built for reproduction quite literally. Males can reproduce the sperm cells, meaning that, especially in humans whose reproductive window is once a month for females, a man can have hundreds of offsprings throughout that month.

Men are those actually built what looks like entirely for reproduction, tbh, factory-level. (No offense to men here, just a calculated observation lol).

It sometimes looks as of women's bodies are built for nothing more than reproduction because of the fact the vulva and vagina are built as if to be penetrated, an idea perpetuated for centuries by men and their man-made religions and even languages. In Hebrew, for instance, the word for Female is neqevah, from neqev - a puncture. In the Quran, "your wife is a soil for you to tilt, sow, and reap" Vagina comes from the Latin word for sheath. These men saw their reproduction hose as the most central part of the world, a variation of it fits i sits if it fit their hose, they decided to give it a name that shows that. Even semen comes from the Latin for seeds, relating men to fertility. Ovum, or Egg, is what needs to be "fertilized", the whole language of reproduction and even later on, is based in male-centric view.

Men have physical power over women because of muscle mass, yes, but not much more than that.

I know this doesn't help much, especially mindset wise, but here's some biology and anatomy.

Women are people first, and the reproductive system is just a part of a body of a women. It doesn't have to be fully functional, or to have all its components. Women who had hysterectomies, removal of the fallopian tubes or the ovaries, are still just as female.

Now, this might be tricky, and i hope I'm fully correct (I'm in class rn do kinda have to divide my attention lol)

Women born without SRY or other androgen receptors, even though they may have male and female gametes, are still female, XY with no reception of SRY, which means no developement of the indifferent gonads into male gonads (testes) in an XY fetus.

Thus there's no testosterone production and neither there is production of the Antimüllerian hormone. This means that the Müllerian ducts starts developing instead of the wolffian ones, resulting in external and internal female genitalia, with the twist of having indifferentiated gonads instead of ovaries in the structure, and testes in general, as in most cases, XY fetuses do develope testes, at the first level of sex differentiation.

These babies, despite not being able to reproduce (nor go through full (if at all) puberty) are still 100% female. As i always say, ovaries? Haha, more like ovarrated

(I made it up now please act according to the copyrighting laws of Intellectual Property in the Geneva convention of Oslo 199— wait.)

I gtg but yeah

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) explains how to reconnect with female pronouns and names, emphasizing practice, self-talk, and providing a long list of name suggestions.
15 pointsNov 19, 2021
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First thing that i think is important, is to realize pronouns are not too big of a deal. And before i get deleted, i didn't mean that your pain isn't a big deal, because it is. But pronouns — they're words that are used to describe what is perceived. I'll first rede to she/her: she/her arw in the third person, meaning it only comes up when ppl are talking about you, and usually when someone is spoken about, they're not present. So there's that. I know this cliche to say "don't give a damn of what other people say about you", but it's very much true when it comes to pronouns, because in the end, these words only have a painful or bad meaning if your mindset is still that pronouns = gender = sex.

Secondly Start using she/her when speaking of a doctors, use the feminine nouns/verbs when talking about a mixed group of people, if your language allows so. I know it sounds stupid, but it helps you familiarize with the feminine grammaratical gender. It's pretty lit once it comes naturally (also scares (almost) all the gross men away 🤠🤠).

If your language has a different "you", or "i" masculine and feminine, speak to yourself in front of the mirror, or just in general. It sucks sometimes and sometimes it's truly painful, especially with the mirror (so it was for me), but even the simplest thing as just saying, in feminine grammatical gender "i should do that" or "you can do this" in front of a mirror, it helps connect between your body, your mind, and the perception of feminine pronouns.

To summarize: for pronouns, familiarize yourself with them, use feminine nouns and verbs, slowly rebuild the bridge you thought was built on faulty ground, as now you feel it's less faulty because you * are* a female.

As for names, depending on what sort of names you're looking for. I for instance love, love, LOVE ottoman Turkish names, mihrimah/Mihrumah (meaning sun and moon), nurbanu (nur = light in Arabic, banû = woman, lady, princess), the name is basically "the princess who spreads [goddess's]* light"), but I'll understand if you find these appropriating.

Any variation of Hannah/Anna, names like Aliyah, Esther, Johanna, Nora, Rita, Nikol/Nicole/nikoleta, Natasha/Natalia, Aoife, Theresa, Aileen, Elizabeth, Gwen, any variation of Catherine, of Elena, Jane, Henrietta. Also, Anat, Lilith (or Lilly), or Layla (which means night, similar to the name lilith) Na'amah (or na'ama), Ayalah, Ayla (or Ela/Ella which mean goddess and a name of a pretty tree as well, unfortunately also a name of a king in the OT, spelled i believe Elah), Eve/Eva, Hilla (halo, aura), Inbar (Amber), Leah/Lea, , Mariah/Miriam/Mariam, Rebeccah (and its variations), Alexandra, Heidi, Adeline, Ada, Abigail, Daniellle, Ginny, Olivia, Maya/May/Maia, Taliya (or other forms), Dar (mother of the pearl), or Darya/Dariah (god's mother of the pearl), Michelle, Dakota, Marianne, Isidora, Theodora, Beverly, Janelle, Moriyah, Rae, Rachel.

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) comments on a detransition post, offering support and advice on accepting maleness, selling clothes, and healing from the experience.
14 pointsNov 19, 2022
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I'm so glad for you, that you found your truth. Sometimes we go through the hardship to understand it was unnecessary. It's okay, it's not ideal, not what any wishes to have unknowingly opt into, but it is a mistake learned nonetheless.

It'll be expensive, yes, but on the brighter ends the clothes you no longer use can either be sold to cover some of the expanses (not much, but every dollar might count, idk), or be taken to goodwill, which means others will enjoy it instead of you, who stopped enjoying it.

While it's true you would have never been able to be(come) a woman, it's okay to accept maleness and still act in traditionally feminine way, if you still enjoy it. You maybe wanted to look like a woman for external reasons, which eliminating from your life, if possible, can do a lot to improve your feeling.

Detransition sure is difficult, and I hope you heal as soon as possible, take care and good luck!

Reddit user creustmas (desisted female) comments on the promotion of transition to young children, citing a local pamphlet that suggested a boy wanting to wear a dress at five years old might be a girl.
13 pointsAug 28, 2022
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Transition has gone from being normalized to actively promoted to people who are too young to have stable identity, and a lot of highly empathetic people support it blindly because the movement takes advantage of their feelings.

This is so accurate, and I'm extremely extremely worried about kids nowadays. A city near where I live had distributed pamphlets essentially saying "if your son wants to go to kindergarten with a dress he's probably actually your daughter". No child at five years of age has any conceptual ideas of their "gender" identity, let alone trans-ness. It's depressing and horrifying.