My de-trans side blog

HATE transmedicalism for making me believe that I couldn’t just get top surgery without going all the way, like. Idk I wanted to stop Testosterone as soon as I woke up from my mastectomy and that’s when I knew i was just. A cisgender girl who had dysphoria abt her chest. I don’t think I ever had any issues with my body otherwise. But transmedicalism made me believe that made me ‘bad’, a ‘faker’, or worse, a ‘transtrender’).

BUT at the time I was kind of entrenched in transmedicalist-adjacent communities who shut that shit down when I brought it up.

Years later? In the end repressing it doesn’t work. So YES it is ok to do what you want.

Cisgender but dysphoric? Me too! That’s neat.

Transgender but non-dysphoric? Not a contradiction at all.

Non-dysphoric but you DO still want to medically transition? Perfectly fine!

Dysphoric but do NOT want to medically transition? Also perfectly fine!

I like to pretend that P3 Minato transitioned to Kotone and then detrans back to Minato. Weird AF, I know. I have too many detrans persona headcanons right now because I can't stop playing the games lol

So yeah detrans Minato please

Thanks for reaching out, don't worry you're not bothering me!

Yes indeed, I identified as ftm between the age of 18 and 24. I injected T for 6 years and I had topsurgery at 22. Now at 6,5 years since I started detransitioning!

I've never wavered in my belief that genderaffirming care should be a universal human right, and fiercely love and appreciate the trans community. It's immensely heartbreaking to me that detrans people are being used to attack trans rights, and that our communities are pitted against each other.

I still relate a lot more to trans people than to Cis people. Most detrans people I know feel the same way. A detrans experience mirrors a trans experience a lot more closely than a Cis experience. We share a lot of the same struggles and face the same bigotry. Not to mention that we were part of the trans community once, and some of us still identify as part of the trans community.

Not every detrans person fully detransitions to their AGAB either. Some detransition medically but stay transitioned socially, for example because of lack of access, medical issues, or safety reasons, or because they just do not enjoy the changes hrt made.

Others, detransition socially, but stay on hrt. For example because they do like the effects of hrt, but their gender identity shifts to be more GNC instead. Others might feel more comfortable switching to a more NB identity. There's endless possibilities and variations within the detrans community, just like the trans community.

I only got back on tumblr recently, after several years of being gone, partly in fact because I am getting fed up with the lack of proper detrans representation online. I'm a very private person in general, but tumblr felt like the safest place for me to try to make a difference. To show people that most detrans people are not alt-right or terfs, and we stand in solidarity with the trans community, not in opposition of it.

Sharing our experiences can be very scary online. Our stories get co-opted by bigots and taken out of context. Used to attack trans people. And because of this, trans people can also get triggered by our very presence. I understand its a knee-jerk defensive reaction out of self preservation, but online trans spaces can sometimes also be very hostile to us too, which continuously makes it more and more difficult for us to speak up. We're a minority of a minority, and whenever we try to speak up, trans and Cis people alike tend to talk over us.

So yeah, that's why I've been starting to share my detrans experience haha, I'm a fierce ally of trans folks, yall are my family, and I wish more folks would see that it's in both our best interest to stick together and show solidarity!

I do not regret my transition, even tho I'm reversing it right now. I do not regret living as a transman for 8 years, I do not regret changing my name and my gender marker, I do not regret HRT, I do not regret getting surgery. I am happy I did it, because at the time that was what I wanted and needed.

I thought I would always identify as ftm, but that wasn't the case. I changed my mind, and THAT'S OKAY!!

The stigma surrounding detransition is very tense currently, since the right has decided to co-opt it for their anti-trans agenda.

Detransition is not the end of the world if it is what you want, it could make you happier, but forced detransition is vile and should be stopped.

It's important to remember, most detrans people are in full support of gender affirming care, are trans allies or still in some way identify as trans themselves, and just wish for detrans-trans solidarity.

Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4 is detrans