Quote:A male who formerly identified as transgender woman has come forward with his detransition story about being "brainwashed" into seeking sex reassignment surgery, after believing himself to be a woman trapped in male's body.

"It's transphobic to say it but after I've been through the system, I 100 percent feel like I was part of some cruel medical and social experiment–except nobody checked in on me," he said

The 32-year-old male, who goes by the name Shape Shifter, shared a video to his YouTube account in May about his detransition story. "I am embracing the fact that I am a man who got brainwashed by gender ideology that I was in a "wrong" body and I needed to alter my body to be my "authentic" self. My body was perfect as is. I should have never messed with my original blueprint," said Shape Shifter in a comment on his video.

The Daily Mail reports that Shape Shifter grew up in the Balkans, a Muslim country where even being gay looked down on. He believed that he would finally find happiness if he adopted a transgender identity.

Shape Shifter was given a referral letter by Fenway Health in Massachusetts, which he says has been taken over by biased trans activists. His vaginoplasty surgery was performed by Dr. Sherman Leis of the The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery.

Vaginoplasty is a complex procedure with a high rate of complications, with 20 percent to 70 percentof trans-identified male patients reporting to have experienced complications from surgery. The purpose of a vaginoplasty is to create a neovagina from existing genital tissue, sometimes also using a section from the colon.

"One of the biggest mistakes is because I went to Fenway Health. A lot of their staff is LGBT and one of my therapists was trans as far as I know. Initially I thought it was good because she would understand me but now looking back she was biased. You know it's kind of an activist hospital in a way," said Shape Shifter.

Not long after the operation was complete in 2015, while he was in his mid-20s, Shape Shifter realized he had made a huge mistake. He now knows that he is a gay man who enjoys presenting in a feminine way.

Shape Shifter refers to his neovagina as a wound, which his body tries to close up. Additionally, Shape Shifter now suffers from depression and a low sex-drive.
Shape Shifter says men should be encouraged to feel comfortable in their femininity, without feeling pressured into medically transitioning. He still wears makeup and has long hair.

"I will never be able to get my ***** back, which is extremely traumatic for me. I want it back and I can't. Sex is traumatic for me now because I've had botched surgeries," Shape Shifter told YouTuber Blaire White in an interview.

Shape Shifter described his concern for having to take hormones for the rest of his life, when there is no long-term research to address their safety. "I'll have to have some kind of hormone in my body so it's going to be estrogen only because if I don't take any hormones, I already have osteoporosis and it will continue to get worse. I went almost seven years without any hormones. The hormones I am taking are similar to what women get during menopause."

"I feel like my life would have been better and more productive if over the last 10 years I spent expanding definition of what it is to be a man instead of trying to just blend in like society wants and trying to be a heteronormative woman," he said.

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Ex-Transgender Teen Recounts ‘Horrifying’ Experience of Transition, Surgery

Quote:Chloe Cole was 15 years old when she agreed to let a “gender-affirming” surgeon remove her healthy breasts—a life-altering decision she now deeply regrets.

Her “brutal” transition from female to male was anything but the romanticized “gender journey” that transgender activists and medical professionals had portrayed, she told The Epoch Times.

“It’s a little creepy to call it that,” she said.

Cole, who is now 18, feels more like she’s just awoken from “a nightmare,” and she’s disappointed with the medical and school system that fast-tracked her to gender transition surgery.

“I was convinced that it would make me happy, that it would make me whole as a person,” she said.

Although she feels “let down” by most of the adults in her life, she doesn’t blame her parents for following the advice of school staff and medical professionals, who “affirmed” her desire for social transitioning, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery.

Most of the medical professionals did nothing to question or dissuade her or her parents, she said.

“They effectively guilted my parents into allowing them to do this. They gave them the whole, ‘Either you’ll have a dead daughter or a live son,’ thing. They cited suicide rates,” she said. “There is just so much complacence on the part of educators—all the adults basically. I’m really upset over it. I feel a little bit angry. I wasn’t really allowed to just grow.”

Her parents, though skeptical, trusted the medical professionals and eventually consented to their daughter’s desire for medical interventions, including surgery, which was covered by their health insurance policy.

“It shouldn’t be put on adolescents to make these kinds of decisions at all,” she said.

Transgenderism, while widely celebrated in popular culture and on social media, is a much more divisive issue than people may think, Cole said.

Today, Cole is one of a growing number of young “detransitioners” who reject current trends in transgender ideology and oppose the “gender-affirming” model of care being pushed by progressive lawmakers at state and federal levels.

She recently testified against California Senate Bill 107, proposed legislation authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), that would shelter parents who consent to the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender transition surgery on their children from prosecution in other states that view such actions as child abuse.

“I think that is really dangerous for families across the US. It can tear families apart,” said Cole, who is expected to testify against the bill again this week.

Cole has been harassed on social media and received a couple of death threats from trans activists since she announced her detransition and took a stand against “gender-affirming” policies.

“Now that I’m completely disillusioned from all of it, it’s really shocking that we’ve even gotten to this point,” she said.

Diagnosed with ADHD at a young age, Cole now believes she’s “on the spectrum.”

“There is really a high comorbidity rate between gender dysphoria and autism,” she said.

Though “very feminine” as a young child, Coles was “a bit of a tomboy,” as she grew older.

“I just really hated dresses, skirts, and things of that sort,” she said.

Children’s TV shows had left her with the message “girls are less significant,” because they often depict characters who are more girly or feminine as “stupid, airheaded, and like just get in the way of things,” she said. “And that kind of imprinted on me.”

However, her real fear of femininity and early disdain for womanhood began years ago on social media and LGBT websites, she said.

“I had started puberty fairly young, about nine years old, and I started to struggle with growing into a woman,” she said.

She started her first social media account at 11 on Instagram, and with nearly unrestricted access to the internet, she was exposed to inappropriate content, including pornography and “sexting” in the online communities.

On Instagram, she was first approached by boys who identified as gay and bisexual through the platform’s messaging feature, but eventually began spending more time on recommended websites for 12-to 19-year-old “trans” teens.

“There was one particular page that stood out to me. It was a bunch of adolescents who identified as FTM [female to male]. It seemed like they were very closely knit, a very supportive community, and that just kind of spoke to me because I’ve always struggled with making friendships and feeling excluded. I’ve never really fit in with other kids my age.”

Cole seldom interacted with the transgender community in real life, but she noticed from online discussions with trans teens that many of them had deep emotional scars and mental health issues.

“Pretty much every transgender person I’ve ever met, especially around my age either has really bad family issues, or they’ve been sexually abused or assaulted at a very young age, and it’s really concerning that nobody really talks about that association,” she said.

At 11, Cole also didn’t understand she wasn’t supposed to look like the sexualized images of scantily clad women she saw online.

“I didn’t know that then,” she said. “I started to develop body image issues. I started thinking, ‘Why don’t I look like this? Am I not a woman?’ And a lot of the feminist content pushed by other girls was making womanhood out to be this terrible thing.”

By the time she was 12, Cole told her parents she was transgender, and like most parents would, they sought professional medical help for their child.

Cole went to a gender specialist, who referred her to an endocrinologist. When the endocrinologist refused to prescribe blockers or hormones, citing concerns about how they could affect Cole’s cognitive development, he became the first and last doctor to ever deny her gender-affirming care.

“It was very easy to just find another endocrinologist who would affirm me,” she said.

After two appointments, a second endocrinologist approved both puberty blockers and testosterone.

Cole was 13 when she began physically transitioning. The puberty blocker injections reduced the estrogen in her body, and about a month later she started injecting herself with testosterone, a process medical professionals call hormone therapy.

“They put me on blockers first,” she said. “I would get hot flashes. They were pretty bad. They would happen kind of sporadically, and it would get to the point where it would feel really itchy. I couldn’t even wear pants or sweaters in the winter. It’s like an artificial menopause.”

Once on testosterone, Cole’s voice “dropped pretty low” and her breasts got smaller and lost their shape over time, she said.

Cole stayed on puberty blockers for about 18 months and testosterone for about three years.

A few months after she was prescribed testosterone, Cole was groped by a boy in the middle of her eighth-grade history class, which was so chaotic, no one noticed—including her teacher, she said. The incident sealed her decision to wear binders to flatten and conceal her breasts.

“I had a relatively small chest, but it still did a bit of damage to me. My ribs are a little deformed because of them. The way they work—it’s not like the breasts just disappear—they push the breast into the ribcage,” she said.

Cole recalls her binder sticking to her skin in the hot Central Valley California weather and her chest feeling constricted. “It was just the most uncomfortable thing,” she said.

She used the men’s bathroom, but always feared she might be sexually assaulted.

However, she didn’t change in the boys’ locker room because she was afraid of being seen with her binder, and “that somebody would make a comment on it, and target me for it,” she said.

Most of the students, except those who had known her as younger child, knew her as a male, but a boy in her Phys-Ed class eventually noticed her feminine features.

“There was one time during P.E. when we were swimming. I took my shirt off. I was wearing a binder, and somebody pointed out my body shape. That was another thing that made me want to get rid of my breasts,” Cole said. “He said something along the line of, ‘I don’t know what it is, but you’re looking kind of feminine,’ and that kind of hurt me.”

Before her operation, Cole attended a “top surgery” class with about 12-15 other children and their parents to learn about the different types of incisions.

In hindsight, she said, “it kind of felt like propaganda—the words they use like ‘gender-affirming care’ and things of that sort,” she said. “It does feel like I was sold a product.”

Cole recalls looking around the room and noticing about half of the other kids appeared they were a few years younger than her. “Looking back on it now is a little horrifying. It’s a little weird considering … they were already considering surgery,” she said.

But, at the time, seeing other kids and knowing she wasn’t alone, solidified Cole’s decision to go ahead with the most widely performed type of double mastectomy called a “double incision with nipple grafts” in June 2020. She was 15.

The surgery involved removing breast tissue and contouring the chest to make it look more masculine.

The surgery left Cole with deep muscle soreness for which she was prescribed an opioid-based medication, but because the pain from the resulting digestion problems was worse than the pain in her chest, she stopped taking the pills.

“I was actually disabled for a while. I had a really limited range of motion, especially in my arms and upper body. There were a lot of things I couldn’t do. I couldn’t even leave the house for a few weeks,” she said. “I remember that being really upsetting.”

The most devastating part of the recovery process has been ongoing post-op issues with her nipples, she said.

“It’s been two years, and I’m still having some really bad skin issues,” she said. “The way the skin heals over the grafts … is just awful. It’s really quite disgusting.”

She also worries the puberty blockers might have affected her brain development as her first endocrinologist had warned, but her greatest regret is how the surgery has permanently affected her as a woman.

“I was 15. You can’t exactly expect an adolescent to be making adult decisions,” she said. “So, because of a decision I made when I was kid, I can’t breastfeed my children in the future. It’s just a little concerning that this is being recommended to kids at the age I was, and now even younger. They’re starting to operate on preteens now.”

Cole announced her detransition in May 2021, about 11 months after the surgery, and has embraced womanhood.

“I am a woman,” she said.

Despite her transition, Cole said she has always been mainly attracted to masculine men and had only ever been “marginally attracted” to women. She is now “straight,” she said, and knows now that her gender confusion as a child was based on insecurity and her fear of being a woman.

Though she has been harassed on social media and threatened by activists, Cole said she’s committed to sharing her story.

“I want to prevent more cases like mine from happening,” she said.

She wonders why educators have become complicit in the “gender-affirming” process.

“The problem is they’re not really pushing back on this whole trans thing. When I told the high school to change my name, and my email, and their records, there was really no pushback or anything,” she said.

Cole urged children who may be thinking about gender transition surgery “not to get caught up in the whole romanticization” of what it might be like to be the opposite gender and suggested they consider that there may be “other reasons” underlying gender dysphoria, including autism or other mental health issues.

Can't consent to a Tylenol from the school nurse but body altering surgery...sure

(08-29-2022 10:59 AM)solohawks Wrote:  Can't consent to a Tylenol from the school nurse but body altering surgery...sure

And don't forget it's OK for minor girls to get abortions without parental knowledge.

And good ol' Mitt is responsible for that in MA.

Detransitioner says she was prescribed testosterone after 30-minute call with Planned Parenthood

Quote:A California woman has come forward with her detransition story after identifying as a transgender man for 15 years. Singer Cat Cattinson, 30, from Santa Cruz, Northern California, grew up as a female but identified as male from the age of 13. Cattison reveals that she obtained her prescription for testosterone from Planned Parenthood, after just a 30 minute phone call.

"I called Planned Parenthood, and had about a 30 minute phone conversation and then I was prescribed testosterone over the phone," Cattison said in a trailer for the new documentary Detransition Diaries, set to be released this fall.

Detranisiton Diaries, by award-winning film producer Jennifer Lahl, highlights how medical professionals, therapists, counselors, and even school officials played a role in their transition by "affirming" their trans identities without question and shuttling them down the path of irreversible medical transition.

Cattison began her medical transition in March 2020 after struggling for years with gender dysphoria, but stopped due to experiencing "nausea and heart palpitations when taking testosterone."

Cattison, who went by "Tony" had planned to have her breasts removed through an elective double mastectomy surgery, until she began to feel nauseous and experience heart palpitations when taking the testosterone.

Cattison noticed her voice drop from testosterone, and as a singer, became concerned about losing her "high pitched" voice. After 4 months on testosterone, she chose to stop the injections in September 2020.

Cattison describes a childhood trauma when she was 5 years old that made her feel unsafe as a girl. "I thought of myself as a boy after that," she said. "When I was a teen, I found forums talking about how it was possible to change sex. I felt then that I wanted to be a boy."

"I first realized it was possible to change your body when I was 13 and from then I was convinced I wanted to transition to become male. But when I finally transitioned and actually lived as a man it didn't feel right," said Cattison.

Cattison came out to her parents at age 15, but they were unsupportive. "They were concerned for me and said I wouldn't have a good life as a man and that no one would take me seriously," Cattison said.

She postponed her transition while she battled eating disorders and bullying. "I was constantly battling how I felt about my gender identity," she said. "I became a bit of closet trans man."

After years of battling feelings of gender dysphoria she made her mind up to begin medical transition and officially come out as a transgender man.

"I felt like I'd never be happy as a woman," Cattison said. "It was so easy to get testosterone - they didn't require any tests or therapy. I was surprised at how quickly they gave it to me."

But not long after the worrying side effects began, "I was getting heart flutters and feeling sick all the time," she said. "The pain was blinding and getting worse and worse."

"It was becoming painful to sing and I realized that I might never be able to again, so I stopped taking the testosterone. I didn't recognize myself anymore. I'd been a singer all my life and I worried about what it would mean if I kept going," Cattison said.

She then realized she was happier as a female and so decided to detransition. It took a year for Cattison to fully detransition at the age of 30, despite only taking the injections for four months.

"I was bedridden because it was a big comedown from taking the testosterone every day," she said. "But now I'm happier with myself and my body and I've realized a lot of my feelings of wanting to be a boy stemmed from that trauma as a child."

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(09-01-2022 02:11 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Detransitioner says she was prescribed testosterone after 30-minute call with Planned Parenthood

Quote:A California woman has come forward with her detransition story after identifying as a transgender man for 15 years. Singer Cat Cattinson, 30, from Santa Cruz, Northern California, grew up as a female but identified as male from the age of 13. Cattison reveals that she obtained her prescription for testosterone from Planned Parenthood, after just a 30 minute phone call.

"I called Planned Parenthood, and had about a 30 minute phone conversation and then I was prescribed testosterone over the phone," Cattison said in a trailer for the new documentary Detransition Diaries, set to be released this fall.

Detranisiton Diaries, by award-winning film producer Jennifer Lahl, highlights how medical professionals, therapists, counselors, and even school officials played a role in their transition by "affirming" their trans identities without question and shuttling them down the path of irreversible medical transition.

Cattison began her medical transition in March 2020 after struggling for years with gender dysphoria, but stopped due to experiencing "nausea and heart palpitations when taking testosterone."

Cattison, who went by "Tony" had planned to have her breasts removed through an elective double mastectomy surgery, until she began to feel nauseous and experience heart palpitations when taking the testosterone.

Cattison noticed her voice drop from testosterone, and as a singer, became concerned about losing her "high pitched" voice. After 4 months on testosterone, she chose to stop the injections in September 2020.

Cattison describes a childhood trauma when she was 5 years old that made her feel unsafe as a girl. "I thought of myself as a boy after that," she said. "When I was a teen, I found forums talking about how it was possible to change sex. I felt then that I wanted to be a boy."

"I first realized it was possible to change your body when I was 13 and from then I was convinced I wanted to transition to become male. But when I finally transitioned and actually lived as a man it didn't feel right," said Cattison.

Cattison came out to her parents at age 15, but they were unsupportive. "They were concerned for me and said I wouldn't have a good life as a man and that no one would take me seriously," Cattison said.

She postponed her transition while she battled eating disorders and bullying. "I was constantly battling how I felt about my gender identity," she said. "I became a bit of closet trans man."

After years of battling feelings of gender dysphoria she made her mind up to begin medical transition and officially come out as a transgender man.

"I felt like I'd never be happy as a woman," Cattison said. "It was so easy to get testosterone - they didn't require any tests or therapy. I was surprised at how quickly they gave it to me."

But not long after the worrying side effects began, "I was getting heart flutters and feeling sick all the time," she said. "The pain was blinding and getting worse and worse."

"It was becoming painful to sing and I realized that I might never be able to again, so I stopped taking the testosterone. I didn't recognize myself anymore. I'd been a singer all my life and I worried about what it would mean if I kept going," Cattison said.

She then realized she was happier as a female and so decided to detransition. It took a year for Cattison to fully detransition at the age of 30, despite only taking the injections for four months.

"I was bedridden because it was a big comedown from taking the testosterone every day," she said. "But now I'm happier with myself and my body and I've realized a lot of my feelings of wanting to be a boy stemmed from that trauma as a child."

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Just another example of a person who needs therapy, not surgery, or hormone injections. Hopefully no permanent damage was done.

The majority of children that are stricken with this disorder eventually decide on their own that they are confused or just gay and move on with their lives. Any parent or physician that would do advocate gender reassignment to a child should be jailed for child abuse.