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Authenticity Assessment: Not Suspicious
Based on the provided comments, the account appears authentic. There are no clear red flags suggesting it is a bot or a bad-faith actor.
The user's comments are:
- Personally Detailed: They share specific, emotionally charged experiences (e.g., transitioning in Italy's healthcare system in two months, being 27 after 6 years of therapy).
- Internally Consistent: The narrative of being a detransitioner who feels harmed by rapid transition is consistent throughout.
- Emotionally Complex: The tone is passionate, angry, and regretful, which aligns with the warning that detransitioners can be "very passionate and pissed off." The raw emotion and personal frustration are difficult to fake convincingly.
While the account's views are strong and it promotes a controversial video from a right-wing source, these are matters of opinion and ideology, not indicators of inauthenticity for a detransitioner.
About me
I started feeling lost as a teenage girl when puberty hit, and I found answers online that convinced me I was really a boy. I'm from Italy, and I was quickly approved for testosterone, which permanently changed my body. After several years, I realized the transition was just a band-aid for my deeper issues with self-esteem and depression. With the help of a good therapist, I learned to accept myself as a woman who doesn't fit a feminine stereotype. Now, at 27, I'm finally comfortable in my own skin, understanding that there's no wrong way to be female.
My detransition story
My journey with this all started when I was a teenager. I was 13 years old and really struggling. Puberty was hitting me hard and I felt incredibly uncomfortable with my body and the changes that were happening. I didn't feel like I fit in anywhere. I spent a lot of time online, and that's where I found communities that seemed to have all the answers. They told me that the reason I felt so bad was because I was born in the wrong body, that I was actually a boy. It made a weird kind of sense at the time, and it felt like a solution to all my confusion and unhappiness.
Looking back, I can see I had really low self-esteem and was probably depressed. I think I was also influenced by my friends who were exploring similar ideas. The concept of being a "non-conforming" woman wasn't really presented to me as an option. It was like there was only one path to feeling better: transition.
Everything happened so fast. I'm from Italy, and we have a public healthcare system. I got approval to start hormones after only two months. I remember being so happy at the time that the doctors and my parents were so "supportive." They didn't question me at all. Now, as an adult, I'm furious about that. The same adults who were supposed to protect me just went along with it. I was a kid, and they helped me make a decision that has affected my life forever.
I took testosterone for several years. It changed my body permanently. My voice dropped, I grew a lot more body hair, and I know my fertility was impacted. I never got any surgeries, but I desperately wanted top surgery because I hated my breasts. I felt like they were wrong and didn't belong on my body.
After about six years, when I was around 19, things started to change for me. I began to realize that transitioning had only been a temporary solution. The initial feeling of relief wore off, and the deeper problems were still there. I started seeing a therapist who wasn't just affirming of my transition, but who actually helped me ask hard questions. This non-affirming therapy was what I really needed. We worked on my self-esteem, my issues with my body, and the depression I'd been carrying for years. I slowly came to understand that my problem wasn't that I was a man in a female body; my problem was that I couldn't accept myself as a woman who wasn't traditionally feminine.
I don't regret my journey because it led me to where I am now, but I deeply regret that I was allowed to make those permanent changes as a confused teenager. I feel like I was brainwashed by the online communities I was in, and then discarded when I started to question things. Now, when I speak about my experience, I'm often told by trans activists that I was "never really trans." It's a hurtful and dismissive thing to hear.
I'm 27 now and I've been living as a woman again for years. I'm finally comfortable in my own skin. I've learned that there is no one way to be a woman. You can be a woman with a more masculine body, with a deep voice, with whatever traits you have. Femininity is a wide and non-standard concept, and it's okay to just be you.
Here is a timeline of my transition and detransition:
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| 13 | Started feeling intense discomfort with puberty. Began spending time online and was influenced by trans communities. Socially transitioned to male. |
| 13 | Parents and doctors quickly approved medical transition. Started taking testosterone after a 2-month process. |
| 13-19 | Lived as a male. Took testosterone consistently. Experienced permanent physical changes like voice drop and increased body hair. Developed a strong desire for top surgery. |
| 19 | Began to question my transition. Started non-affirming therapy which helped me address underlying depression and self-esteem issues. |
| 19 | Stopped taking testosterone and began socially detransitioning back to living as a female. |
| 27 | Present day. Living comfortably as a woman, having addressed the root causes of my distress. |
Top Comments by /u/hykuzo:
It’s ok to as a woman to have a more masculine body, there is no woman template, but maybe when you look at a male body it’s more the attraction towards that body rather then the idea of yourself with that body..
Also, and I’m sorry for this one, check on this sub, you will find that it is a lie that trans people will have the other sex body, too many times people felt lied to and misled about this issue.
There is no going back despite what people may tell you, go on hormones will affect your life forever, even if is just for a year (many studies show how fertility drops and hairs start to grow a lot more, and there is no go back).
Why don’t you feel comfortable into being a woman? Genuine question
Im so sick of this attitude, I literally lived through overly accepting parents (when it was about my transition) and this made me furious, so i commented “you’d still have a son, but with mental problems and possibly forever sterile if he used blockers” and got as usual downvoted.
Then i made some fun of the activists with the SAME comments I receive every time i open my mouth on other subs (like: “as a REAL trans person i can say that this dude is a MAN, never was trans” like YEAH, I WAS BRAINWASHED BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU) and BAN.
I’m so sick of these, and the funniest part? I’ve included some of the endless report i made that were constantly rejected, they were all about calling for harms or direct insults against me or detrans and for some weird reason they come back REJECTED everytime…
Im sick of this, being literally brainwashed by the internet and rejected once you are not useful anymore, being Italian and with all that “free” healthcare, i got transitioned in 2 months, and there is literally no way back since you can’t even come close to afford paying for a private surgery (because it is “free” IF you get a doctor approval and an INPS, basically nhs, approval, but they will never admit they were wrong and there is no shortcut, so F🤣CK ME)
Sorry if most if not all of this makes sense, it is hard for me to talk about this and got really upset.
PS: the dude my profile is linked to is NOT me, just someone that reached here on reddit, mocked me and took my username, pls don’t send hate to him
PS2: MODS you can remove this if you want, i just wanted to write it like i was yelling, but i see a psicologist and kinda can “cope”, so I won’t mind. Again it was just a rant..
Have you tried seeking mental support? For many people transitioning is only a very short temporary solution, the regret and realization comes and hit harder than everything you ever lived through.
i could only advice you to try to talk with someone qualified to try to understand the root of your feelings
Also, how old are you? Because puberty is an ugly bitch
There was a wonderful video resurfaced online where the head of an hospital was talking about the money side of transitioning, they clearly stated that a fallopastic can pay up to 1/4 of hospital bills, no doctor could refuse transitioning patients if they wanted and the trans people in the hospital were supposed to be carried by “allied tutors” (basically people that could keep the medical staff in check in case they wanted to warn the people).. i saw it on a right wind podcast
I will comment only on the “transphobic” thing: judging on how that term is used these days, i usually hang out with people called “transphobic” and avoid those who call them such ways, because based on my personal experience you get way too often labeled that way just by making questions or casting a doubt.
That word lost all the semantic meaning to me and is a callsigns that identify people you can have an honest discussion woth.
Again, this was my experience, i live in italy and honestly never met a “transphobe” that wish me dead
Maybe the voice, but from the pictures of you i saw… you are a girl, no doubt. Did you get any surgery?
Also definitely exists many “unfeminin” women, but honestly femininity is a concept i never understood, why classify under a term something so wide and non-standard, you can be “”non conforming”” but still be you and call yourself female
Did i say something wrong tho? The “im a real trans” is a comment i recive every time I speak out about detransitioning so I really don’t feel bad anymore to 15yo with XE/XIM in the bio
Edit: also the comment that make reddit give me a warming AND got me banned was the first one, not the replies
Mmmm.. i could only think that you could try to social de transition once maybe in a foreign context, like going shopping for groceries where you don’t usually go, so nobody knows you and you can get a more neutral and honest feeling from your body, that’s what i do sometimes, just to better understand what my body is telling me (MtF)
Not a “joke post” when you are 13 and your parents literally don’t even make an attempt to question your decision f-ing your future forever.
Have you ever seen the “far-right” meme “male athlete: i want steroids, Doc: NO STUPID/ 13yo: i want hormones, Doc: yes wise one”? Literally me with EVERYONE around me. The same adults that were supposed to protect me willingly and blindly helped me to destroy my life.
Luckily i found a good therapist, and after 6 years im now 27 and “””fine”””, but still get mad sometimes when i see this wrong attitude being publicized as the righteous one