I recently viewed a fairly fascinating report on Newsmax in regards to those individuals who are “de-transitioning” back to their correct gender.
What wasn’t mentioned was how at least some of these brave souls have dealt with often irreversible surgeries. Granted, women have the ability to have breast reconstruction after a voluntary double-mastectomy, but a guy who underwent an orchiectomy (testicle removal) and/or penectomy (penis removal), I would think those poor guys are simply out of luck.
Nevertheless, after reading what some of these young ladies said about having been brainwashed into believing that volunteering to have their breasts hacked off was supposedly a good thing… suffice it to say that some of these stories really are heartbreaking.
With all those disturbing mental images aside, I have found a few very interesting sources I hope you find interesting as well.
First up, a site known as HormoneHangover.com penned by Grace Lidinsky-Smith (emphasis mine);
During our brief pre-op consultation, my surgeon said that this was an easy surgery. Quick recovery, back to normal in no time, really. She glanced over my body and told me that I would look great. I was imagining a transformative and spiritual experience when I went in for surgery. I’d hyped myself up to believe that this was going to be a beautiful turning point to becoming the real me. Of course I knew in an intellectual way, it was going to be tough to have surgery. Nonetheless, I expected powerful relief from my dysphoria.
I had no idea how bad it was going to be. But once I got the surgery, I found out for myself.
After my mastectomy, I felt sewn up, aching, ghastly. My sutures oozed blood, my abdomen was swollen and grotesque. My chest didn’t feel at all natural. A disturbing, never-abating sensation of numbness and occasional pain had replaced what I now realized was the natural feeling of my intact body. And almost immediately after the surgery, the dread of regret started to sink in. Whatever I thought I was getting into, I had failed to contend with the fleshy reality.
Lesson learned, younger me. Don’t let the pushy, glitzy Instagram “before and after” photos fool you- a mastectomy is ALWAYS a big deal.
My name is Grace and I detransitioned. On the left: me shortly after top surgery, 2017. This was the darkest time in my life. On the right: me recently. Life goes on, life gets better. #DetransAwarenessDay pic.twitter.com/ItTJbiLJpF
— Grace 💙🦎 (@HormoneHangover) March 12, 2022
In an article from Ben Shapiro’s DailyWire.com some of the reminiscences from Michelle Alleva (emphasis mine);
Michelle said she began to discover activist gender conversations on the internet, how her mental health was suffering, and how she became suicidal.
“I was vulnerable, desperate, and young,” tweeted Michelle. “On top of that, I had people online telling me ‘if you think you’re trans, you are’ and ‘cis people don’t think about gender this much.’ I heard the ‘only 1% regret it’ statistic, and I thought I’d be fine. That could never be me.”
She continued: “What reasons did I have to not trust them? Why would so many people tell me things that weren’t true? Why would my doctors go along with it if I weren’t really a man? Why would therapists risk my mental health if they weren’t sure whether I would benefit from transition?”
“That is the state of activist-controlled health care,” said Michelle. “There is one narrative that is acceptable, and every person who does not fit that narrative — who regrets transitioning, who returns to living as their sex, who talks about the potential for issues — is told to shut up.”
What really hit me hard was an interview from Medium.com with de-transitioning supporter Helena Kerschner (emphasis mine);
Unfortunately for those who identify as transgender, the language of “rights” has been perverted from one that refers to an individual’s right to freedom from harmful encroachment by others to one that simply means “things people desire.”
The ideology responsible for this linguistic shift demands these desires to alter the body be met, and met immediately, without regard for the many converging causes and effects of such desires both in the individual context and on the level of the broader mechanisms of society.
In the context of “trans rights,” in this case specifically the “right” to cross-sex hormones and gender surgeries, this reconfiguration of language could not be more clearly subject to abuse.
when i was 15, lonely, and hated my body, i got sucked into gender ideology online.
my school encouraged me and i was easily prescribed a high dose of testosterone at 18, and it was very damaging.
this is not rare.#DetransAwarenessDay
me at 19, trans // me now at 23 pic.twitter.com/oNPF5J3Q7m
— helena (@lacroicsz) March 12, 2022
In a 2020 profile of Kerschner provided by NewDiscourses.com, she’s described with quite the straightforward words;
Helena Kerschner is a 22 year old detransitioned woman who once identified as a trans man and was a staunch supporter of Social Justice. Since detransitioning, she has been involved in raising awareness for detransitioners and building a supportive community through her work co-founding the Pique Resilience Project, speaking with and writing to lawmakers, and co-moderating the r/detrans subreddit.