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Fairly typical responses to anything featuring Keira Bell |
The Lancet - of 14 young people who were turned down for puberty blockers (reasons include medical, psychological and environmental issues) 11 had, on follow-up, desisted and were glad they hadn't taken them: Puberty blockers for gender dysphoria: the science is far from settled
Poor Jazz Jennings and sex surgery nightmare due to the impact of pubertal blockade on their sexual development. This led to three, major surgeries and a life threatening collapse, and a final revision in 2020. This image is taken before the fourth surgery - there's a lot of scarring
The idea anyone, even a child, might make the wrong decision is taboo. But there are so many...
Susie Green has a good chuckle about her child's sex reassignment surgery (performed in Thailand as a 16th birthday present) being stymied by the lack of scroto-penile tissue due to puberty blockers, used from the onset of puberty, preventing normal development.
"if u want depth most Thai doctors said colon vaginoplasty is my only way, or a scrotal skin graft with more skin from my thigh or anywhere ."
"I wanna know did have any problems after colon vaginoplasty? other than the odor which i think it can be solved" - conversation goes on to sigmoid colon vaginoplasty. It sounds brutal
Detransitioned woman to sue doctors who removed her uterus during mental health crisis - reddit detrans / Daily Mail
KC Miller, who did a moving Tiktok about being left as a balding, deep-voiced woman at 21, was subject to a wave of abuse. Here's one example (watch it here)
HE WILL never forget the noise".
● Story regarding on person's horrifying surgical results with Gallagher, who has also removed the breasts of a 13 year old 'trans boy' - graphic, appalling images within here
● Psychotherapist blocked from studying trans regret takes case to the european court
♡ Portrait of a detransitioner as a young woman
Dr. Sibhdh Gallagher, AKA 'teetus deletus' has made a real impact on tiktok - and increasingly in criminal complaints
Young detransitioner writes to her surgeon:
● Fifty trans people tell therapist of regrets
● Scott Newgent - We need balance when it comes to gender dysphoric kids. I would know
● The detransitioners at The Critic
● Double mastectomy at 15 - detrans 16 year old now seeks reversal
● The detransitioners - what happens when trans men want to be women again
● The ranks of gender detransitioners are growing and we need to understand why
Here is an excellent blog on the ideological capture of talking therapies https://genderexploratory.com/2021/04/30/example-post-3/
Here is an interesting blog on the making of the 'trans child' https://pitt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-trans-educated-rational
And the story of how activists tried to crush Lisa Littman's study into Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria https://web.archive.org/web/20210817101115/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/19/trans-activists-fail-block-research-suggesting-gender-dysphoria/
This, from Sydney Morning Herald, details the heartbreaking loss suffered by those who regret sex reassignment surgery
"But as the wheels squeaked towards the operating table he was struck by an unshakeable thought: "It's not right." He remembers telling the surgeon: "I think I'm doing the wrong thing, it's not right, I think we've got to stop it."
The surgeon stroked Andrew's face, telling him it was natural to feel frightened before an operation. He protested again, insisting it felt wrong. Then it went black. When he woke up he was sure the surgery had been cancelled. The romantic tales he'd read of transsexuals who awoke post-surgery feeling "reborn" convinced Andrew the operation had been halted, because he felt no different"
This is another of our blogs of the treatment of parents who don't unquestionably affirm -We're your peer support - you are killing your child
Studies:
● Gender dysphoria in adolescence: current perspectives:
"Evidence from the 10 available prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence (reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma28) indicates that for ~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC, the GD recedes with puberty. Instead, many of these adolescents will identify as non-heterosexual"
● Gender reassignment - I'm man enough to admit that it was a mistake
• Ray Blanchard - "Thirty years ago, postoperative transsexuals who regretted surgery were pretty rare. That was under the gatekeeper model, however, when patients had to live as the opposite sex for one or two years before being considered eligible for surgical approval"
● Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey
"A recurrent theme in the answers was a sense amongst respondents that it was very difficult to talk about detransition within LGBT+ spaces and with trans friends. Many expressed a feeling of rejection and loss of support in relation to their decision to detransition, which lead them to step away from LGBT+ groups and communities"
● Transitioning procedures don't help mental health largest dataset shows
"Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population"
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To my daughter's therapist - you were wrong
A beautiful essay by the mother of a desisted teen
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● Arron Terrel - "On why I don’t think children should ever be physically transitioned.
"I used to think certain cases of childhood GD should be treated with physical transition. I used to wish I had been able to transition as a child. GD was brutal & I never outgrew it"
- Detransitioners -
● Watson - "I can't say what the global experience of being diagnosed with gender dysphoria is. I can, however, tell you what I went through for the diagnosis, and what the subsequent referral for HRT and surgery was like."
● Detrans gay guy speaks on his transition and detransition here
Carey Callahan on her story - "The Game Plan for when Transition Hasn’t Worked Out"
Part One: The Post-Surgery Bad Feelings, Expectations Vs. Reality, and Grief
● I want to be Debbie again - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/im-still-debbie-man-reveals-13532989 and on Newsnight here
● Carol "Thread 🧵 I was reluctant to start testosterone. And my therapist never explored that or explored alternatives just pushed me in one direction.
When I expressed worry about possible regret over having top surgery she told me regret would be normal but people get over it because transition is truly the right thing for those of us with gender dysphoria.
She then told me a story of a client of hers who had a break down after her top surgery. But she assured me she knew what was up & it would be ok.
God I feel like such an idiot now. So many 🚩 I couldn’t see. It’s amazing what severe depression and suicidal ideation will do to the thought process. I hated myself I wanted to destroy myself. I had fantasies about killing myself in horrible ways since I was 13. None of this was ever talked about in therapy. Because that Would have been transphobic. #detrans #DetransAwareness"
● GNC Centric - Coercion and abuse within the gender identity community
● Former trans woman Peter Benjamin speaks of post transition regret
● GNC Centric - Tough questions for gender dysphoric people
● Transgender regret - a dutch documentary
● Elle Palmer - Detrans thoughts on trans community
● Graysons Projects - I'm detransitioning. My struggle with gender and self acceptance
● Detransitioners - The growing dark side of trans ideology
● Daisy Chadra - I'm detransitioning
● Issa Ismail - Why I decided to transition and detransition
● Marrs - FtMtF detrans
● Socratic Citizen - Detrans with Carol (Carol aka SourPatches)
● "TRANS SURGERY RUINED MY LIFE" Trans woman back to man
● [Detrans Male] I tried being a man, without being a man
● Benjamin Boyce - Detransition Stories - Lots of different detrans voices here. Highly recommended
● Benjamin Boyce - The lost boys of genderland with Angus Fox
● Arielle Scarcella on the 60 minutes detransition documentary
● Richard Hoskins on Victoria Derbyshire
● Advice for parents with a trans kid (from a detrans female) - Waffling Willow
● Robe life trucking - Detrans MtFtM
● DETRANSITION. My story, and what I wish I knew - Rival Maverick
● "My life felt ruined" talk with detrans woman - Blaire White
● Tuffsofty - Regretting a gender surgery is hard. Take good care
