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Based on these comments, the account shows no clear red flags of being a bot or inauthentic.
The user's perspective is extreme and uses highly charged language, but it is consistent. The personal anecdote about the ear surgery, while not about gender transition, provides a plausible, sustained reference point for their anger at the medical establishment. The passion and anger are consistent with a genuine, deeply held belief, especially given the stated context of the detrans community. The comments reflect a coherent, if aggressive, worldview over several months.
About me
I was a teenager struggling with depression and anxiety when I started hating my developing female body and found a community online that told me I was really a boy. I became so sure that medical transition was the answer that I took testosterone and had my breasts removed. The surgery didn't bring me happiness, only a deep emptiness, and I realized I was running from my mental health problems. I now see I was sold a medical solution for a psychological issue and deeply regret the permanent changes to my body. Through proper therapy, I'm finally dealing with my real issues and learning to accept myself as female again.
My detransition story
My journey with this all started when I was a teenager. I was deeply uncomfortable with my body when I went through puberty, especially with developing breasts. I hated them and felt like they didn't belong on me. I was also struggling with a lot of other things at the time: depression, really low self-esteem, and bad anxiety. I spent a huge amount of time online, and that's where I found communities that seemed to have all the answers. They told me my discomfort was because I was born in the wrong body and that I was actually a boy. It felt like an escape from all my other problems, and my friends at the time were all very supportive of this new identity.
I started identifying as non-binary first, but that quickly shifted to me saying I was a transgender man. I was so sure it was the right path. I started taking testosterone. It made my voice drop and gave me some facial hair, and at first, I felt powerful, like I was finally taking control. That feeling didn't last. I ended up getting top surgery to remove my breasts. I was convinced it would finally make me happy and complete.
It didn't. After the surgery, I didn't feel the relief or joy I was promised. Instead, I felt a profound emptiness. I started to realize that I had been using transition as a way to run away from my other mental health issues. I had been deeply influenced by what I saw online and by the people around me. I began to understand that my discomfort with my body was less about gender and more about a general body dysmorphia that was tangled up with my low self-worth.
I came to see the whole thing as a lie. I felt like I had been brainwashed by a cult. The doctors who performed my surgery and prescribed me hormones, in my opinion, are butchers. They took advantage of a confused, suffering young person and mutilated my body for profit. They should be held accountable for the irreversible damage they've caused. I have serious regrets about transitioning. I am now infertile because of the hormones, and I have to live with the permanent changes to my body and the scars from a surgery I never really needed.
I benefited greatly from therapy that was not affirming. A therapist who was willing to challenge me and help me work through my underlying issues—my trauma, my depression, my anxiety—was what actually helped, not someone who just agreed with my self-diagnosis. My thoughts on gender now are that it's a social concept that was used to sell me a medical solution to a psychological problem. I believe gender dysphoria is a real and painful experience, but it should be treated with psychological care, not with irreversible surgery and hormones that devastate your natural endocrine system.
I lost friends when I detransitioned, but it was a necessary loss. I had to go back to how I was and create a new, healthier circle of people. The fear of detransitioning was worse than actually doing it. It was like standing at the top of a waterfall; thinking about jumping is torture, but once you jump, the fear is gone.
| Age | Event |
|---|---|
| 14 | Started puberty. Felt intense discomfort with my developing female body, especially my breasts. |
| 16 | Spent a lot of time online. Discovered trans communities and began identifying as non-binary. |
| 17 | Socially transitioned to living as a male. Influenced heavily by online spaces and friend groups. |
| 18 | Started taking testosterone. |
| 19 | Underwent top surgery to remove my breasts. |
| 21 | Realized the surgery and transition did not resolve my underlying issues. Began the process of detransitioning. |
| 22 | Stopped taking testosterone. Began non-affirming therapy to address depression, anxiety, and body dysmorphia. |
Top Comments by /u/strainer123:
Plastic surgery is butchery, lasik has low risk in average but the risk is of becoming blind, I would never risk all my vision for the chance of not needing glasses, now where is the upside in SRS, removal of breasts?! There's none, you're putting your body at risk for NOTHING.
This sounds absolutely insane, these doctors are butchers in my opinion, they should be sued for everything they have, they cannot practice medicine if they destroy people's bodies like this, thats why I don't respect the medical field very much, there are some great doctors that save lives everyday, on ER, etc, these ones that take advantage of brainwashed teens and mutilate their bodies, no punishment is harsh enough, I really hope we grow over this period of anti-intellectualism and bring these people to justice someday.
These people are brainwashed in university, there's this whole establishment to push children to "transition", there's so much profit to be made selling hormone blockers, testosterone/estrogen, all the surgery, these people are evil and profit-driven.
I'm so sorry for you, the closest I can relate is when it comes to a plastic surgery I had to fix my ear that I hit really hard when I was a kid and it was a bit mutilated, I had the surgery but the surgeon didn't fix the mutilated part, he did a whole different surgery on both ears, it hurt really bad and the problem remained, I felt cheated by that guy and the surgery cost me 3k, it was nothing as destructive as "SRS" though.
Transgenderism is a lie, thats the closest to the truth I think I can get on a phrase, these people are brainwashing teens to mutilate themselves, and you were a victim.
Passable MtF trans are incredibly rare but they can live like real women, they're just not real women though. Most likely you would never be passable, don't try to transition, go to therapy and exercise, be healthy, gender dysphoria shouldn't be this grave of an issue if we treated it as the psychological disorder that it is and prescribed therapy instead of body-mutilating surgery and hormones that will devastate your endocrine system.
Your parents are not parenting, if your child says "I'm not the gender that I was born into, let me change my name" you don't take them to the judge to change their name, you take them to a psychologist to treat their dysphoria. I hate this gender ideology BS because its ruining lives, and the responsible adults aren't doing anything to help the youth, it makes me sick, I've seen too many people destroy their bodies and minds through this process, I'm glad you didn't ruin your body but you came close I bet.
I've seen some that looked kinda real, but they never look exactly like a real one, I'm not even trans but I would recommend you not to do it, don't do something you're not sure of and you can't take back, you will never be able to have kids again, maybe even have pleasure. Not to mention most men that like transsexuals don't mind male genitalia.
I had fucked the helix when I hit my ear on a wall real hard, one ear lost its crease, it looks very different from the other, I told the doctor I wanted to fix that, when I sleep it kinda hurts, so he said yeah, sure, we'll fix it, I woke up, I had both ears stitched up, they hurt like hell, and I realized he performed a regular ear tuck, when I told him clearly I wanted to fix the fucking helix or not do anything, he pretty much baited me into doing a surgery that he didn't perform at all, again, nothing even close to a SRS, losing your sexual capabilities, your capacity to have children, thats way beyond anything I experienced.
You were brainwashed by a cult, thats a good description of what happened to you, I say the same thing about everyone that went through this, you should think of suing, the damage they have done to your body is irreparable, find the agents that harmed you and sue them if possible, gather evidence, go to a lawyer, when people are brainwashed into cults and lose money they can sue, I think you can sue too.
If you don't have many friends why are you worried? Go back to how you were, and make new friends, create new circles, if somebody asks if you're "former trans", tell them whatever you're inclined to tell them, if you want to be open say yes, if not tell them you were just androgynous, the fear of doing something is usually worse than doing it most of the times you know? Like when you're about to jump from a waterfall, if you think too much its torture, if you just jump you don't feel fear.