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About me
I started taking hormones as a teenage boy who believed he was meant to be a girl. After two years, I realized I was mutilating my body and that I could never truly change my sex. I stopped the medication, but it left me with permanent health problems, including infertility and debilitating fatigue. I deeply regret the medical intervention that disrupted my natural development. Now, I’ve accepted the body I was born with and focus on living my life.
My detransition story
My whole journey started when I was really young. I was born male, but I became convinced that I was supposed to be a woman. I started taking estrogen and testosterone blockers when I was a teenager. For a while, I could pass easily and I thought that was the solution to everything. But I was never truly comfortable. I came to a point where I realized that no amount of medical alterations would actually make me a woman. I felt like I was mutilating my own body and I had to stop. I was in denial about that for a very long time, and it was really hard to finally accept it.
I was on hormones for about two years. After I stopped, my body never really went back to normal. My endocrinologist had told me that as long as I didn't have surgery, my natural hormone production would bounce back, but that was a lie. It’s been years now, and I still have serious health complications. I feel extremely weak and lethargic all the time. I have constant fatigue and brain fog. I got my levels checked and my testosterone is in the normal male range, but I still feel terrible. It’s a mystery, and it’s left me unable to live a normal life. I can’t handle college, I just work a minimum wage job and come home too tired to do anything else. I have no social life. I also found out I’m now infertile, which is devastating. I can’t have kids, and that depresses me more than anything else when I think about the future.
I don’t really have regrets about the social parts of transitioning, but I deeply regret the medical intervention. I disrupted my whole biological process by starting so young. My advice to anyone is to just stay occupied. I’ve found that I don't think about any of this crap when I'm busy with my hobbies, friends, school, or work. You have to learn to live with yourself as you are.
My thoughts on gender now are simple: you can't change your sex. I tried and it caused me nothing but pain and lasting health problems. I’ve learned to live with the body I was born with, and I haven't looked back since stopping.
Here is a timeline of my transition and detransition:
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| 15 | Started taking estrogen and testosterone blockers. |
| 17 | Stopped HRT after 2 years, began detransition. |
| 22 | Present day. Still dealing with fatigue, brain fog, and infertility. |
Top Comments by /u/sansworth:
I started HRT young and could pass easily but threw that all away because I was no longer comfortable mutilating my body. I’ve just come to the conclusion that no amount of medical alterations will make you a woman. I was in denial for so long so it was hard to accept.
I’ve learned to live with myself as is and haven’t looked back. I recommend just staying occupied. I don’t think about any of this crap when I’m busy with hobbies, friends, school, or work.
To be honest, the future depresses me more than my past. It seems like all my dreams and goals are out of reach now. I can’t have kids. I deal with constant fatigue and brain fog and don’t feel like I could handle college. I just barely manage to work a shitty minimum wage job. I’m too tired to do anything else afterwards so I have no social life. I practically have the lifestyle of an 80 year old woman. I fail to see how it’s going to get better.
When you start that young you disrupt the whole biological process. There’s a chance your body isn’t capable of producing T at male levels. So I’d definitely get that checked.
In the meantime you could try lifting weights, wearing male clothing, getting shorter hair. Also you are only 16. Many 16 year olds still don’t have that much facial hair.
Yeah I feel you. I was on E and T blockers for 2 years. I’m livid because it was literally my endocrinologist who claimed as long as you don’t get your testes removed, things should go back to normal. I would like to try TRT because I have nothing to lose at this point but it’s ridiculously hard to get it prescribed.
It has been around 4-5 years for me so I don’t think any changes are going to miraculously happen at this point. But 2 months is not a lot of time especially after suppressing your natural hormone production for 3.5 years. I would give it a few more months. I hope things look up for you.
2 months is still relatively short. But yeah as another MtFtM, this sounds about right. Nothing feels like how it did pre-HRT. I feel extremely weak and lethargic overall. My testosterone levels were within male ranges so I don’t know, it’s a mystery.