There are a couple of former transgender patients from across the pond who have since detransitioned and are now sharing their regrets over being pushed into sex change surgeries.
The first is 35-year-old Ritchie, who felt different when he was young and decided to become a woman in his 20s – with a lot of push from transgender activists.
Via Daily Mail:
Ritchie, a civil servant from the north of England, detransitioned after spending nearly a decade as a trans woman.
After feeling ‘different’ as a young boy, he discovered gender dysphoria while browsing online forums in his early 20s. When he explained his feelings to other forum users he was told he was ‘100 per cent trans and should act on it’.
In March 2014, Ritchie drove to a private clinic in Scotland where after just three appointments in two days he obtained a diagnosis which would allow him to be prescribed cross sex hormones on the NHS. He then went to an NHS gender clinic in Brighton.
‘The first question I was asked when I saw the psychiatrist was whether I wanted gender reassignment surgery,’ he recalled on the film. ‘I said to her, ”I’m not sure, I’d like some time and I heard you could have therapy”.
‘But I felt they communicated to me that they weren’t a mental health service, they were there to help people medically transition. They wanted me to have surgery more than I wanted to have surgery – it was really bizarre.
‘I refused it in 2015, I refused it in 2016, then in 2017 the psychiatrist said to me ”you’re established on your hormones, if you don’t want surgery we’ll discharge you”.
‘But I was in the middle of that critical therapy, which was the anchor I needed in the world to keep me well. Then they told me I’d be discharged if I didn’t go on this list.’
Ritchie described the surgery he went through to transition from male to female as ‘extremely brutal’.
‘The first thing they do is they give you what’s called an orchidectomy to remove your testicles,’ he said. ‘Once they’ve done that they essentially shave the skin off the penis for that to be removed, and then they start removing the erectile tissue.
‘If you imagine your knuckle losing your finger, you still have the knuckle – you can still twinge it, so unfortunately you still have that phantom sensation. What they also do is reangle the urethra, which causes a very common complication called urethral constriction.
‘That’s when you can’t pass urine properly. It will either come up slowly, painfully, or in some cases not at all. Some people have got catheters for the rest of their lives. Some have got really horrific complications.
‘And for me I lost a lot of blood in surgery because they drill right through your pelvis. The infections that you get after are just treated like it’s a normal thing. They were like, ”you just get infections”.’
Ritchie said he struggled mentally after surgery: ‘Even if you’re happy with it, it’s tough. You lose energy, you become extremely fatigued and vulnerable in a way because you recognise you don’t have that power in a sense – it’s a very strange feeling.
‘I was still involved in therapy at the gender clinic and I said ”I think I’ve f****d up here, I think I’ve made a really mad decision”. And their response was, ”You’ve just had this really major surgery… this is a rumination, this is just your OCD”.
‘So I would go back every month and at every session say I feel the same, ”This is f*****g mental, I should have never done this”.’
Ritchie, who has since retransitioned to a man, added: ‘This is not reversible, the experiment is over for me, there really really isn’t any turning back.’
Next up is Amber:
Amber, who is in her early 30s, works in recruitment and lives in the north west of England with her wife, also bravely came forward to give her testimony to No Turning Back.
She also first went to a private gender clinic, where after just two appointments she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and received cross sex hormones. She then had surgery to remove her breasts on the NHS.
After three years on testosterone she said she began to question her decision but found the medics at her private clinic were not supportive.
She told the film: ‘It didn’t stem from a questioning of my identity at the time – what happened was I started to experience a phenomena that does happen to a lot of people who have a transition that’s transmasculine where the testosterone therapy causes issues for their internal bodily functions, from a female lens.
‘So, my female reproductive organs started to have some issues. I haven’t had any menstrual experiences since the onset of testosterone and at the point where I got to about two and a half years on testosterone I started to experience a lot of severe pain in my genital region.
‘I think I regret the speed at which I approached transition, especially the medical side. I don’t think seeking diagnosis was necessarily an issue and I did experience gender dysphoria. But the rush to have surgical intervention and to have hormones is definitely something I wish I had taken more time over.
‘I wish I’d have explored in therapy the feelings I was having. So, even if I had taken those medical steps I’d at least have laid some groundwork to know I might not regret them and I might feel more confident rather than rushing in as if it would solve all of my problems.’
Describing the ‘permanent effects’ of having taken male sex hormones, Amber said: ‘I have facial and bodily hair – female hormones don’t remove the hair that we’ve grown on testosterone. I also have genital changes that are permanent and of course I had a double mastectomy.
‘[My breasts] were what was causing the predominant bulk of my dysphoria in the beginning and I do still have mixed feelings on my flat chest – whether I in some ways appreciate the neutrality it gives me and I feel I’m less sexualised…
‘By trying to avoid what was difficult about going through this surgery in some ways I have denied myself of the opportunity to embrace my womanhood fully.’
Taking testosterone for a long period had caused problems with her internal female organs to begin to atrophy. Amber said the usual pathway at this point would have been full hysterectomy but she refused and came off the testosterone.
It’s horrific the damage done to these young people, confused about who they are and pushed into this garbage by activists with an evil agenda. And much of it is permanent now, something they’ll have to live with for the rest of their days on this earth.
It just goes to show that what these young people are experiencing is mental health related and not gender dysphoria. These two were adults by the time they transitioned, but many are now put on this path when they are incredibly young, even toddlers. It’s disgusting. These parents who allow this to be done to their children should be seen as criminals and child abusers.
For more on this check out the Daily Mail…