Detrans Voices 🦎
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Amplifying the voices of detransitioned women, being a detrans woman myself. In need of support? Just send me a message! 💜 (account not active atm)
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You find the whole zine (pdf) here:
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Want physical copies? just email realitygirlzine (at) 👈
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Today is
#DetransAwarenessDay
! ✊
Use the hashtag, read/listen to some stories from detrans people (you can scroll my twitter ;) ), help raising our voices!
And here's a vid with me just rambling about the importance of this day 🤘😌
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"I'd give a massive warning, just a huge warning to anybody who is thinking to transition.... I feel like I'm kind of ruined, mentally and physically."
Extremely brave video by Rosh, 9 years on tesosterone
#detransition
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19 yrs old, US
"I'm detransitioning because I'm sick of this community and the kind of activism that's done in its name"
"No one want's to say -I'm comfortable being gender non-conforming and NOT transitioning-"
#detransition
#transactivism
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Alfie id:ed as trans from age 15-21, and this one almost brought me to tears💜
"I'm not very good at being a woman in the sense that I got dysphoria. But a woman is still what I am. Dysfunctional, wonky, weird, gay, autistic - a completely authentic woman"
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"And detransition is not about retraining ourselves to conform, it’s about accepting our nonconformity as part of our Womanhood, rather than taking it as a sign we were meant to be men."
#detransition
#GNC
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VOICE
#116
"For me detransition isn't about going back to anything, it's about accepting what's already there.
It doesn't mean I have to wear pretty skirts, it doesn't mean I have to wear makeup, it means I can be whoever I want and still be a woman" ✊
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Brave trans man speaks out after 14 yrs on T!
"I stopped because I was just tired of it (...) Just bc I inject T, and bc I think and believe that I should have been born male, that doesn't make me a man, nothing I do will ever make me biologically male."
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"She was unhappy as a child - not because she was a boy trapped in a girl’s body, but because she didn’t understand that she could be the kind of girl who hated girly things but loved other girls, without having to metamorphose into a man."
#detransition
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"Realizing that you're a woman in a world that is not particularly friendly to women, I think that that is what ultimately caused my gender dysphoria"
Great interview in
@FeministCurrent
with Dagny from the detransition awereness project
@PiqueResProject
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VOICE
#113
"I don't feel female, I don't feel male.
I think it's all trauma, me just wanting to protect myself from the horrors of this world"
Gretchen is socially detransitioning, and she made a very brave video about it 💜
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"Where are the studies, where is the research, where is any attempt to find non surgical help for us?"
Incredible speech by
@charlie_sci
👏
#detransition
@DetransAdNet
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10) ...but being able to refer to the voices of 100 individuals with so many important messages has to work as convincing proof for some. At least one of these stories should be able to touch something somewhere in people's hearts, and open up to a change of perspective 💜
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2) They said they'd never read an article or sen anyone else like me in the media. They thought I was just unlucky and that I was projecting my frustrations unto the trans community. In their eyes I was just "one of the small 0,4%" who transitioned by mistake.
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7) Receiving that message from someone I used to be so close to meant so much to me. It also means one more ally in the fight to stop more young girls getting hurt by this.
It took her two years of convincing, and the rise of people speaking out is what did it for her.
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"In all honesty transitioning was not the cure to my feelings, it was just a surface level social answer to feelings that were hidden deep inside of me."
Eloquent and brave by Kathryn👊👇
#desister
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"I wanted to be a boy. I desperately wanted. Had my parents told me that liking boyish things made me a boy,I would have concluded that I was a boy. I am thankful that they didn’t freak out,or make any life-altering decisions for me.They just let me be me"
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8) My point is, you'll come a long way with the voices of professionals, medical arguments and statistics, but victims speaking out about their stories is, in my opinion, what makes the biggest impact on people.
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3) I realized there was no point in trying to convince them of anything else without proof, and for that to happen there simply had to be more voices, more stories, more evidence. So I started this account to collect every piece of public information I could find, in one place.
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5) However, a few weeks ago I got a message by one of my old friends (a "queer" lesbian).
She had seen enough. She was concerned, and felt that as a feminist, this was a matter that could no longer be ignored. She realized she'd been a part of it, enabling it as a trans ally.
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4) At first it was hard, I had to search the web thoroughly to find a new voice. Since then it has only gotten easier. More and more are finding the courage to go out and tell their stories, and it is incredible to see! (I don't even have time to share everything I find💜)
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6) She also wrote "I've seen so many videos and articles now, and I realize how much courage and bravery it takes to go out publicly, with the potential backlash and harassment from the TRAs. I know I'm only looking at the tip of the iceberg..."
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WHAT BESIDES TRANSITION HAD PROVIDED RELIEF FROM DYSPHORIA?
Survey of 359 dysphoric females who are not currently pursing transition as a dysphoria management strategy.
Huge thanks to Hailey Mangelsdorf (previously trans-identified)
See full survey here
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9) Didn't mean to make this too long, what I wanted to say is simply that I hope people can use this account as a resource. We don't know how many we are because there are no reliable statistics,
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Psychotherapist Caspian tries to speak out:
'It wasn't so much that there seemed to be increasing numbers of younger people, particularly females, transitioning, but that there were so many of them who seemed to be later reversing the transition."
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VOICE
#106
"I did not feel respected as a young woman compared with young men. I thought life would be better for me if I changed my sex"
Strong story (❤️) by Keira, who started transitioning at age 16, now 23.
#detransition
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"I realized that I was running away from my butch identity, that I had sort of internalized this misogyny from messages from my parents and society"
Leigh was on T for 6 yrs. Now she has started to document her detransition. Truly brilliant videos!🙌
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VOICE
#115
"The fact that I liked women,
The fact that I hated my body,
The fact that I was masculine,
The fact that I drastically wanted to become a different person made me think I was trans"
This is just a vry powerful vid.
All 💜 & strength to Kodie💪
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"I don't feel like a woman, and I don't feel like a man - I am female and that's all there is to it.
I don't need to feel like anything to justify the fact that my female body likes to do say and think things that women aren't supposed to do."
#reidentify
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"The only solution that was presented to me was to medically become a man.
I don't want to become a lifelong medical patient.
What I want and what I always wanted is peace with myself. Not a surgically altered self, but my own self."
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UK, 17 yrs
"Recognizing that I am female and realizing that I cannot change my sex was extremely hard to accept, but once I did it it felt very comforting, reassuring, and was the first starting point I’d ever been offered for coping with my dysphoria."
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"Feminists, wake up - gender is not a feeling!"
A debate article written by a detransitioner in Swedish national newspaper, here is the translation.
#detransition
#sexnotgender
#transgender
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"I asked her, who is going to let people know about alternatives, if not doctors or therapists?"🤔
This is a unique interview with a detransitioner who gathered the immense courage to go back to her doctor to to tell her.
By Callahan, with
@hormonehangover
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Usually only share detrans stories with this account, but this is too good new from my own country to not be shared, hope other countries can follow too:
📢No more puberty blockers for < 16 (and strongly limited 16-18) 🙌🙌🙌 Science says no.
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VOICE
#102
"As a detransitioner, as someone who was once absolutely convinced, and thought that I would never regret it, to read what some of these proposed changes would do - really, really concerns me"
By Watson, 4,5 yrs on T, follow her on
@ImWatson91
👏
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VOICE
#123
"I was told that if I came to regret my transition, I'd likely kill myself. Or if I didn’t transition I'd likely kill myself. Had it not been for that narrative, I think I'd've been able to get through my dysphoria and develop as my own person"💜
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This is highly recommended! 👇
Writings by 10 detransitioners. Their personal stories, political analysis and also some practical advice, and resources for other females who struggle with dysphoria and dis-identification.
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"I can't understate the role social media has played in all this. It is obvious to me now that, in which part of the internet that you inhabit for large chunks of time has serious effects on your brain and your view of the world"
#reidentify
#ftm
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"The thing that has most disturbed me in all of this has been the sheer scale of the denial, vilification, ignorance and, at best, silence that has come from trans-activist groups and their supporters on the subject of detransition." 👇
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"My gender dysphoria was real and often painful, but the way for me to resolve it wasn't by becoming a man. It was by questioning and rejecting the stories society had told me about what it means to be a woman."
#detransition
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"The thought of going back was scary, because I transitioned to escape my problems. Detransitioning means facing the things I never managed to overcome," says Nele.
So happy Nele and Ellie found each other 💜This is a really good article! 👇
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VOICE
#104
"A lot of what drove me to transition in the first place was linked to mental health issues (...) That should have been taken care of beforehand."
Mackenzie identified as trans from age 13 to 20, you can follow her on 👉
@kenzielmn
👏
🎥
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"Biological sex is a material reality. One can not choose to identify as male or female"
Gill Smith, a detransitioned woman, talking at
@Womans_Place_UK
event. Brave and very wize speach.
Follow her on
@reckoner80
#detransition
#ROGD
#lesbianerasure
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1) Thank you to all the other speakers and everyone who attended the online conf
@voorzij
"Stop medicalising transgender children". Scrolled trough the comments afterwards and there was some really nice comments there, thank you <3
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"I didn't like how I looked,
I didn't like how people treated me,
I didn't like how people percieved me,
I was like: What if I'm trans??
And my friends was like - Yeah, you probably are!"
#detransition
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"I didn’t want to be seen as a woman–as a lesbian–and I didn’t want to ask why."
Great essay by detransitioned Max Robson, 22 y/o. Her story, queer culture, and the political implications.
#detransition
#ftm
#transideology
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"I started tesosterone four years ago, I'm 20 now and I'm starting to realize that this isn't the path that I wanna go down...."
Brave video by Mack Wells, concidering
#detransition
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"She never asked me if lesbophobia med me feel isolated and alone"
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"The truth is that we, detransitioners, have become an entire community on the internet that is constantly growing, and to continue to ignore us is beginning to come off as ignorant and on the verge of unethical."
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Message from a detransitioner, UK
"I am simply asking..begging,that we be allowed to examine this issue critically. Raising concerns about patient safety and welfare is not transphobic. Raising concerns about the lack of evidence is not transphobic"
#rogd
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Vanessa lived as a trans man for 15 years, she’s now starting a Youtube-channel to talk about it, stay updated!👇
”When I detransitioned, I was trying to find people like me, - but I couln’t find many. I decided maybe it was time for me to share my story”
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Amazing comics by a detransitioned woman, check her out on "Detransstories" on Instagram! 💕
#detransition
#comics
#detransstories
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Long, but really good interview with
@lacroicsz
from the
@PiqueResProject
, who identified as FTM for 5 years. Talking about dysphoria, social media and how gender ideology can have such strong influence on a young GNC person.
#detransition
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Last year me and
@radfemjourney
got the opportunity to contribute to this important and groundbreaking book, we're proud of the outcome and honored to be among such a brilliant company of authors🙌
Ask your local bookstore, or order here!
#inventtranschild
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"I'm in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn't, and their dysphoria hasn't been relieved, they don't feel better for it"
Follow Charlie here
@charlie_sci
👏
#detransition
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This is powerful.
Laura (
@FlohrFritz
) ID'ed as trans when she was 16. Today she's 36 and has decided to speak up about the trauma she went through.
She also condemns transition of children, calling it child abuse.
#detransition
👇
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“If there is a ‘gay conversion therapy’ of our times, it’s this,” says Charlie
Great piece written by
@HJoyceGender
Not exclusively focusing on detrans, but the concept of self-ID, treatment of children, effects on women's rights etc. It's all linked.
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48 y/o, detrans
"I eventually came to the conclusion that I transitioned too young (age 22), under the wrong circumstances (abusing street drugs) n for the wrong reasons (self-loathing rooted in misogyny n untreated trauma at having been a rape survivor)"
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Well-written article on the topic by a detransitioner
"I have come to the conclusion that my decision to transition was due, in part, to the misogyny in our society and the subsequent feelings of discomfort that misogyny generated in me."
#detransition
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"...the therapist who wrote my letters never asked whether I’d ever had any sort of delusional thoughts and the doctor who wrote my prescriptions didn’t ask whether I was depressed" // 27 yrs old detransitioner
#detransition
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"What was really going on was that I was a girl insecure in my body who had experienced parental abandonment, felt alienated from my peers, suffered from anxiety and depression, and struggled with my sexual orientation."
By
@KLBfax
👊💜
#detransition
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Listen to these awesome and super brave detransitioners/desisters who've started a project called
@PiqueResProject
where they will talk about their storries and experiences. This is their first Q&A video 👊👇
#detransition
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"I detransitioned because I realized that my trans identity had been a shell - it was, above all, a coping mechanism" 💜
Finish detransitioner, "We are so lightly there" on Youtube👇
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DESISTERS & DETRANSITIONERS STUDY📣
Do you live in the US and are between the age of 18-33? Please consider participating in this research study from Brown University 👇
For more info, get in touch with Lisa Littman at lisa_littman
@brown
.edu
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VOICE
#111
"I spent three years being someone I wasn't. I thank my mom for not letting me medically transition, I would be in regret now if she hadn't"
Sky
@SKendelle
wanted me to share her story 💜
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📢📢📢
On Friday, March 12th, is Detransition Awareness Day!
We want to break down the stigma around detransition and let others know that they are not alone. And we want to be guaranteed proper health and mental health care, just like anyone else.
👉Share the # on Friday!
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Another video by the trans man who's been on T for 14 yrs, and stopped
"Doctors tried to be helpful but they didn't really know what they were doing. Just kind of stabbing in the dark!
Studies have not been done long term to see what will happen."
#detrans
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To anyone dysphoric out there, here's a message for you ❤️
And a big thank you to the writers, compassionate and well put 🙌
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“But after around 18 months, I began to realise I’d been changing my gender for all the wrong reasons – it wasn’t because I wanted to be a boy, it was because I felt uncomfortable with my female body.” Cale, 24, detransitioned
#detransition
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📽 The Trans Train from Sweden: Part 3!
- about Pubert Blockers. And the damage being made to young vulnerable people using them.
I'm talking about the detrans situation as well, which has seen quite an increase last couple of years.
#transtrain
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"Many who detransition never inform their doctors, Max says, so are not reflected in the statistics. Her network of detransitioned people, which was formed a couple of years ago, numbers just over a hundred. Kitty thinks it gains one to two new members each week."
#detransition
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This is such good resource, please take time and read:
"The aim of this study is to analyze the specific needs of detransitioners from online detrans communities and discover to what extent they are being met" (274 participants)
An incredible work done by Elie from Post Trans👊
We are very happy to announce that the results of our survey on detransition-related needs and support are now available online:
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VOICE
#122
"It makes me sad to realize the amount of trauma I went trough. I was diagnoses with PTSD even before all this trans stuff, but i didn't realize that those were connected"
// 'The Honestly Project', from Finland. She has many more videos 🙌👇
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"Having stopped testosterone, it's wonderful, it feels healthy, like the body was designed"
#detransition
#testosterone
#trans
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"As a transguy I felt like I was wearing a mask, trying to cover up for who I was..... I was depressed, and I needed a quick change" /Max, just reidentifyed
#desisting
#reidentify
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"I started getting really angry from the testosterone, which is a side effect," she says. "But then I started getting depressed. I was like, why am I depressed? I should be happy." / Zahra, from NZ
#detransition
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24 yrs, US
"I was never confused about being a female, I had just learned to hate them. I was just ashamed of the parts of me that were feminine. I used this new T-umbrella to help me justify my discomfort with feminine traits instead of dismantling my own internalized misogyny."
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Johanna was sure transition was the right path for her, and Alexa (20 yrs into transition) asks themselves if things could have been different.
Here's part 2 of the Swedish documentary about detransiton and trans health care, absolutely worth watching! 👇
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@charlie_sci
@DetransAdNet
"For decades - gender non conforming women and girls have been failed by a system that has diagnosed them with a medical condition treated with hormones and surgery. Instead of embracing gender nonconformity, this system has forced these women and girls into boxes..."
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VOICE
#101
Boyce has made several in depth interviews with detransitioners, this one is with Rachel who was on T for 5 yrs.
She tells us her whole story, from being abused as a child and growing up in a homophobic community, to later on detransition 👇
💪💜
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"It eventually dawned on me that my experience on HRT would not be a continuous growth curve (...) I would never reach the end point that I had decided would “feel right,” bc it was and remains biologically impossible no matter the medical intervention."
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2) Someone asked me to expand about a phrase that just came out of my mouth 'trans fog'. I think that's my best effort to summarize:
- the constant brain gymnastics that's required of you to try to keep things somewhat logical
...
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VOICE
#103
"The way that I interacted with society and the way that I perceived myself and my role in society was different than how everyone else perceived me"
Elle Palmer came out as trans when she was 15, in this video she shares her whole story 💜💪
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"All the years I was taking testosterone my mind felt almost like there was this 'malice'... Because testosterone is chemical, it is foreign, our bodies were not design to produce testosterone in large quantities. We supplement it with a synthetic version."
#testosterone
#trans
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"...so I came to the conclusion that I was actually just a gender non conforming butch woman"
Very brave vid by a Dutch detransitioner 💜
#detransition
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What did you think changing gender would achieve?
"I'd become accepted in the world"
/ Debbie, lived as a trans man for 17 years
See the full BBC clip here about detransition (including debate afterwards)
Thank you Debbie for telling your story! 💜💪
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"Detransition was a chock in my system, that woke me up from a fantasy. And I couldn't be more thankful I found the community of detransitioned women online" 💜
We're happy to show you the story Eli has shared with us!
She also has a very interesting YouTube channel where she talks about the topic of detransition. You can find it by searching for "Rad Flowers" or here: 1/3
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"I experienced and I still do experience dysphoria - all that's really changed is how I choose to label it. A lot of my trans identity was connected with hating myself and seeing transition as this escape, this way out of my past and this way out of my body..."
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@HormoneHangover
"My doctor used to tell the press that no one she sees had ever regretted transition. I wanted her to know that there isn’t always a happy grateful trans man coming out the other side of that process."
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Swedish documentary (with eng. sub) about detransition and the immense lack of research behind all of this. Featuring amongst others, James Caspian, Marcus Evans - former board member of Travistock Centre, and the detransitioners Sametti and "Mika" 👇
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"People who transition, a lot of times have comorbidities - most commonly anxiety and depression, and then there is autism, OCD and ADHD. It can cultivate the feeling of being transgender"
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4)- the constant stress about behaving correctly/using the right words in the community
- the constant stress about others saying the right thing about you
-and ultimately -although few admits- the constant wondering whether there REALLY is such thing as 'born in the wrong body'?
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"It’s also when I started questioning trans politics, when I reached 'peak trans’ if you will. And I’m eternally grateful that radical feminism helped me snap out of that horrible phase of my life. I was deluding myself, setting myself up for failure."
#detransition
#rogd
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"I realized it is okay to be a lesbian, despite the bullying I experienced because of it. I realized it is okay to be a masculine woman, it is okay to be gender non-conforming, none of this stuff makes you transgender."
#rogd
#reidentify
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Post trans has made a (very nice looking!) website where you can find all stories they have published 👏👏👏
We are very excited to announce that our website is now online! There you can find all of the stories in both simple text and illustrated forms.
New content will be available soon in the blog section. We will keep you updated :)
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