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About me
I started feeling uncomfortable with my body as a young teen when I began developing breasts and didn't fit in with girly stereotypes. Online communities convinced me this meant I wasn't a girl, so I identified as gender-fluid for a while. I realized later that my feelings were a normal reaction to puberty and societal pressures, not a sign I was the wrong sex. I am now a 17-year-old woman who is comfortable being gender-nonconforming without changing who I am. I am grateful I never medically transitioned and am angry that this ideology targets vulnerable young people.
My detransition story
My whole journey with this started when I was around 12 or 13. I was a tomboy and never really fit in with the girly girls. I felt uncomfortable with myself and my body, especially when I started developing breasts during puberty. I hated them; they made me feel like I was being looked at as an object, and I just wanted them gone. I was also struggling with a lot of anxiety and low self-esteem, and I felt like I didn't belong.
I found communities online that convinced me that my discomfort meant I wasn't really a girl. They said that if I didn't like dresses or makeup and was uncomfortable with my body, I must be "gender-fluid" or even a boy. I started to believe that I was born in the wrong body. For a while, I identified as gender-fluid to my close friends and in online spaces. I even gave myself a more masculine nickname, Marlin, which I still use sometimes.
Looking back, I realize I was just a girl who didn't conform to stereotypes, and the online world and the ideology of transgenderism took advantage of my insecurities. It felt like an escape from the pressure to be a certain type of woman. I am so incredibly grateful that I never medically transitioned. I never took hormones or had any surgeries. I see now that my feelings were a normal part of growing up and dealing with the way society treats women, not a sign that I was trans.
I started to detransition socially a couple of years ago, around age 15, when I began to see how harmful the ideology was. I realized that clothes and hobbies don't have a gender. I can be a woman who wears masculine clothes and has short hair—that doesn't make me any less of a woman. The transgender movement pushes the idea that if you don't fit a stereotype, you must be trans, and that's just not true. It actually reinforces the stereotypes it claims to fight.
I don't hate trans people themselves. I've had trans friends, and I believe they are people who are hurting and were convinced of this ideology, just like I was. But I strongly hate the ideology of transgenderism and how it's pushed onto young, vulnerable people. I am against medical transition for minors and even social transition for kids because it makes them believe something that isn't true during a critical time in their development. It really messes with your head.
I also have strong feelings about how this movement treats women. It often feels fetishistic, especially from some males who transition. It minimizes women to stereotypes about makeup and clothes and can be incredibly misogynistic and lesbophobic. I am a real woman, and no amount of hormones or surgery can change the basic biological reality of sex.
I’m 17 now, and my views have changed completely. I understand that my discomfort was rooted in puberty, societal pressure, and mental health struggles, not in being the wrong sex. I’m a bisexual woman, and I’m learning to love myself for who I am, masculine features and all. I have no regrets about not transitioning, but I have a lot of anger about how I was misled and how many other young girls are being led down that same path.
Here is a timeline of my journey:
Age | Event |
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12 | Started puberty, felt discomfort with my body and developing breasts. |
13 | Began identifying as gender-fluid online and with close friends. Felt influenced by online communities. |
15 | Began to socially detransition, rejecting the gender-fluid label. |
17 | Now fully detransitioned. Comfortable identifying as a bisexual, gender-nonconforming woman. |
Top Comments by /u/marlin_ze_fish:
Literally you got it. You CANNOT change your gender just like you cannot change your race or your age. You may act a certain way, dress a certain way, but that doesn’t mean you are any different than what you are born as just because you “feel like it.”
Don’t listen to what other people tell you and convince you and what you actually feel. Often times that’s how it starts is people online convincing you of something. I’ve felt like this before in the past and that’s why I was so easy to fall into that, I am so glad I never medically transitioned. It is okay to be gender non conforming but not be trans or anything. You don’t have to make yourself look or act like how society tells you to be. Wear what you want and act how you want. There’s so many women that don’t feel right with how society acts like what women are. Just sitting still looking pretty and quiet being living art/objects. Art that you can fuck. I believe it is rooted in the way society treats women and the way we are expected to be. Go out into a mystical fairy circle with your friends and escape into the woods forever to forget about society and expectations 😆
Whenever you go so deep into a toxic ideology even when you get out of it there is still apart of “that you” that remains. If that makes sense. I don’t think we should hate trans people, they are just people that are hurting inside like we were and was convinced of all this and full heartedly believes in this, but we should hate the ideology, hate transgenderism itself. Hate that it’s pushed on everyone, Hate the way they act or how they treat us, but not hate the person themself.
Yes, the only trans identifying people that I do very much dislike though and don’t mind insulting are those middle aged men claiming to be women they have full on facial hair and everything wearing a wig and hooker clothes that it’s very much obvious that their whole trans identify is a fetish.
Idk if it’s contributing to making your health issues worse but it certainly isn’t healing. I don’t know your whole story but from the tidbits in your post, it seems that you’re an effeminate male that felt like he had to transition to female because effeminate men are often looked down upon, or whatever the specifics are it’s related. That’s what compels a lot of people on here, they don’t fit the “norm” of what they “should” be according to their sex. Tomboy girls feeling like they’re a boy and with you vice versa. He yourself, don’t worry about labels ♥️
Honestly I see this a lot with young girls. A lot of trans boys (such as how I was when I was gender-fluid) were just young preteen/early teen girls that are insecure and uncomfortable with themselves and their identity that is struggling with some sort of mental health problems and just really need help, love, and a proper therapist.
You don’t have to wear feminine clothing to be a girl. And many people who struggle with identify like this, feel like this. The transgender movement has convinced us that if we don’t fit the societal norms of how our sex/gender is “supposed” to look/act/dress… then that must mean we’re trans! Many women feel dysphoria with their feminine bodies/breasts at times as they continue to be objectified. Especially masculine/androgynous women.
Something I’ve learned since realizing that identifying as gender-fluid is bogus, it that it’s okay to just be myself. Accept your biology as female but what how you portray yourself is up to you. Your clothes don’t define whether you’re a man or woman. If that were the case that means every butch lesbian you’ve seen is a man! Dress however you want and what makes you happy.
Yes. This is why I am against even social transitioning when it comes to minors. Yes, it may just be clothes and a nickname, and there is nothing wrong with that. But when you full heartedly believe that you’re a different gender and you’re born in the wrong body, it really fucks up your brain in a way that it takes years to fully recover from. I have masculine features (to em) and sometimes I appear very feminine but other times masculine. And that’s okay and that’s who I am, something I’ve grown to learn, and am working on loving my masculine features. But there have been times where I think, that are very rare now thankfully, that I would look better as a man. But I of course know that isn’t true. And I am so glad I never went through with being trans/gender-fluid.
Yes. Because these things are mutations and not actually enough to be considered a “third sex” and is often just a combination of male and female characteristics but you’re STILL male or female. Gender care is supposed to be for these people but it’s been taken away by the trans movement (hmmmm common theme here?) and takes away this care for them. However, chopping off your breasts doesn’t do shit about things when they’re perfectly healthy normal breasts you naturally grew.
That as well. Scroll through here and you might be able to find the story of this lesbian that always liked women growing up, but through seeing how her family reacted to women kissing, she associated that with being bad, and subconsciously the only way she would be able to be with women if she was a man. It’s really sad.
For me, I’m just a bisexual woman who sometimes likes to dress feminine but sometimes more masculine, I’ve always be a bit of a “weird kid” and gotten along better with guys and always considered “one of the guys”, even by my boyfriend lol. I wish I knew what I know now when I was 13, that I wasn’t “gender-fluid”.
Also, side note, I hope you’re doing okay in the hospital and I wish for a good recovery. I will be thinking of you though you’re a stranger and I don’t know your name, I will be praying for you. 🫂