If we're not going to fix them, just kill the fucking faggots.
Transform them and when they realize the truth, they'll kill themselves.
Im really worried about other people who are getting sucked
into thinking that gender transition is the answer to problems
that would be better solved elsewhere, one detransitioner said.
The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters is a cautionary
tale that exposes not only how influential the spread of trans
ideology is on social media and in doctors offices, schools,
and therapy sessions, but also how that same ideology weaponizes
vulnerable young womens identity struggle against them.
The film from the Center for Bioethics and Culture documents the
testimonies of three women Helena, Cat, and Grace who went
through various forms of so-called gender-affirming
prescriptions and procedures only to discover that the wrongly
named treatments marketed to make them feel better about their
bodies did more harm than good.
The featured women do not shy away from mentioning the
irreversible procedures and damage this mutilative movement had
on their bodies and souls, but they also dont leave viewers
feeling hopelessly doomed in a world that works overtime to
normalize the destruction of healthy bodies.
Social Contagion
The documentary starts with the women explaining not just how
they learned about transgender ideology but why it appealed to
them.
I dont think anybody would have described me as gender
nonconforming, or a tomboy or anything like that, Helena
admitted.
Though Helena said she never would have been considered gender
nonconforming or even a tomboy, after hours of scrolling
Tumblr, the social contagion of transgender ideology took root
in her mind and began fueling her mental health problems.
By the time I was about 13, I started to feel really depressed.
I started self-harming. I started developing an eating disorder.
That kind of isolation led me to go on Tumblr because I was
spending a lot of time online generally, Helena said. I was
introduced to a belief system that it had a lot to do with
gender, but it was more like, If you dont fit in, thats a
sign that youre trans. If you dont like your body, thats a
sign that youre trans. And if you transition, all these
problems will be fixed.
Similar to Helena, Cats interest in transitioning was piqued
when she was 13 after she visited a website boasting all things
trans, prompting her to determine she had gender dysphoria.
Grace testified that she had a lifelong like preoccupation and
discomfort with my body that turned out to be a very normal
sort of young adult female issues. Its not uncommon for
children and young adults like Grace to feel uncomfortable in
their growing bodies, but the vast majority outgrow their sex-
related woes if left alone. For instance, in one Canadian study
of boys with gender-identity disorder released last year, over
time, nearly 88 percent of the subjects desisted, or abandoned
their desire to identify as the opposite sex.
Grace, however, wasnt left alone. After years of feeling
lost, suicidal, and depressed, she jumped at the opportunity
to alter her body. Grace also attributed her eventual decision
to take testosterone and go through with a double mastectomy at
23, something she said she regrets, to trans influencers
online.
I was looking at trans influencers who had the body that I
wanted and reading all of that stuff like the happy
testimonials, also feeling the hysteria of the online trans
community which was really freaking out because Donald Trump was
president and theyre like, Oh, its going to be illegal to
transition. It felt like it was a little bit of time pressure,
Grace said.
How could vulnerable young women not entertain the idea of
transitioning when it is marketed as the end-all to their
mental distress? Especially since it is plastered all over
social media, and doctors advertising castration and
mutilation get endless positive press coverage.
Theres plenty of scientific evidence to suggest that kids,
especially girls, are heavily influenced by this shameless
online trans peddling and the ideologys popularity among their
friends. Thats why transition procedures on U.S female
adolescents alone quadrupled between 2016 and 2017.
The online world of trans ideology is so pervasive that when
Grace began to question whether amputating her breasts was a
wise decision, she admitted that she believed she was
experiencing internalized transphobia.
As Helena explained, it was easy to get swept up into the world
of social justice ideology with just a few taps on a screen:
In this social justice ideology, theres kind of a hierarchy of
who is the most oppressed versus who is the most privileged. The
further along you are on the oppressed scale, that means you
know that your opinion is listened to more. I found myself in
this place where I had found the only community of other girls
who are more like me in terms of personality. I could relate to
them, but it was so enmeshed in this kind of belief system that
made me feel really guilty about being a cis, straight, white
girl. You begin to feel a kind of pressure to constantly
apologize for yourself. OK, well, how do I not be this
privileged person anymore? And one thing thats really easy to
do is just change your pronouns.
Changing pronouns, of course, was just the beginning.
Eventually, Helena, Cat, and Grace all began taking testosterone.
Beyond the Screen
When Helena didnt get the affirmation she wanted from her
parents over her gender confusion, she sought help from her
schools guidance counselor and psychologist, both of whom were
more than willing to push the teen to transition behind her
parents backs.
Ironically, one of the things that really kind of supported my
idea of being trans was that before I was trans, none of the
adults in my life at school or anything really cared that much.
They didnt really see that I was struggling. But when I said I
was trans, then they all wanted to like bend over backwards to
help me be trans, she said.
Helena eventually found an in with a medical office that, after
she requested it, prescribed her the maximum dosage of
testosterone on her first visit.
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for public school officials to
urge and aid kids who want to reject their sex. This is
documented well on the Libs of TikTok Twitter account. But
schools arent the only trans-crazed accomplices.
At 18 years old, Cat used Planned Parenthood, which has taken a
recent interest in getting kids hooked on hormones, to get drugs
that would make her look and feel more masculine.
After just a 30-minute conversation, the doctor prescribed
testosterone over the phone, Cat said. It was pretty clear she
did not look at my chart, because she would have seen some
things that would at least be cause for concern, because like I
had a history of suicide attempts, I had been institutionalized
before, I had been to inpatient eating-disorder treatment. The
outcome of that conversation was, Heres your drugs.
As Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: the
Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, once noted, America
has essentially become an unlocked medicine cabinet for gender
medicine seekers as young as 15. And its hugely problematic.
At first, the young women saw what they believed was an
improvement in their sex-related confusion and other problems.
It did kind of feel like, you know, one of the better
antidepressants that Id ever taken in my life, Cat recalled.
Eventually, however, Helena, Cat, and Grace all learned that
taking drugs designed to inhibit their bodies natural functions
was not the cure theyd hoped it would be. It ultimately left
them feeling physically ill, angry, and even more depressed than
before.
But in the case of Helena, who was on testosterone for 17
months, her health professionals never considered her symptoms
to be a result of the male hormone. Instead, she was prescribed
more medications to combat what her hospitals psych unit deemed
borderline personality disorder and psychosis.
My life just became like a total disaster, Helena said. I
wasnt functioning at all. I wasnt holding down a job. I wasnt
going to school. I just felt like a monster. Once I stopped the
testosterone, the symptoms all went away and I started feeling
like myself again.
It was then that Helena gave up on the idea of doing surgeries,
saying, I just became so dysfunctional that I wasnt really
able to have the mental wherewithal to go through the process of
calling surgeons, dealing with insurance.
Cat, a singer, had plans to dive deeper into the trans world
with a double mastectomy and legal name change but paused those
when she realized how detrimental the changes to my voice had
been and how devastated I was that I had made irreversible
changes to myself.
Grace, who went through with her double mastectomy, experienced
regret and the unnerving feeling that no matter how much she
altered her body, this will never be over for me.
I just was realizing that there might not be a light at the end
of the tunnel like I thought there was. I also dont really feel
like a man, I just feel like a woman who has had her breasts cut
off, Grace admitted.
It was then that she began thinking about all of the
irreversible damage her body was subjected to because she was
told it was necessary to combat her gender confusion.
Im concerned that the testosterone may have affected my
fertility and potentially will cause me some like infertility
issues, but I really dont know, Grace said.
I feel, I think
more than anything else, regret over that. I just hadnt been
thinking about having children at that time. I didnt think I
really wanted them, and thats something that I began to really
want in my mid-20s.
All Hope Is Not Lost
There were plenty of people, organizations, and resources
available to Helena, Cat, and Grace when they first considered
transitioning, but support for their detransition was
severely lacking so they started doing their own research.
I started looking into a lot of studies, and what I found is
that there actually isnt much quality evidence supporting
medical transition as the best treatment, Cat said. I started
to grow concerned with scientific and medical misinformation
being tried by the trans community.
These young women found a way around the smokescreen with help
from truthtellers such as Posie Parker, who ignored the threat
of censorship from Big Tech to state hard and fast truths about
sex.
I went on YouTube and I just searched trans women arent
women because I had never ever listened to gender-critical
people or TERFs because I was just told they were hateful
people, Cat explained.
Helena found solace in talking to others like her who had
started taking hormones and considering surgeries before waking
up to the deception.
I realized that like, oh, OK, theres a lot of people going
through this. Its not just a handful of people. Its like
hundreds and thousands of people going through this. And so once
I started meeting these people, I just started having
conversations, she said.
Those conversations are why its so important for young women
like Helena, Cat, and Grace to share their stories.
Im really worried about other people who are getting sucked
into thinking that gender transition is the answer to problems
that would be better solved elsewhere, Grace said. I am
hopeful, but I think its going to be a really ugly time.
The
fallout is going to be really severe from all of the
detransitioners.
But our voices can no longer be denied.
Helena, Cat, and Grace will be labeled transphobic and hateful
for speaking up, but their transparency offers a message of
warning and of hope for real care that parents, policymakers,
and people all around the world need to hear: Mangling healthy
bodies is a sickness, not a cure.
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