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Coralys Pabón Rivera, 21, Puerto Rico USA.
https://www.instagram.com/0neeyedh1m
“Detransition was one of the scariest things I ever had to do. You ever been so sure of something, and then you’re wrong, and you feel like everybody is staring at you?
That was me.
The truth is I was never a transgender man. I had gender dysphoria related to my own trauma as a female from being assaulted as a kid, which caused me to believe that if I was a man, men would treat me with respect.
I moved away to Washington state for college and was seventeen when I started testosterone, and a whole year later, I was planning how to get off of it. If only I had been made to wait till 18, a lot of things could’ve been different.
I couldn’t get a tattoo, but I could get life altering hormones without my parents consent. Because my parents signed a paper giving my university (where I got my hormones) access to treat me in any way necessary, they deemed I didn’t need parental permission as long as I had a paper that stated they could give me health care in any situation, nice loop around for doctors making trans kids who are trying to hide it from their parents. Horrible consequences.
Being a man didn’t bring me any happiness, it just made me hide my truest self. It caused me to have less acceptance for who I truly am.
Now, I have to deal with having a deep voice for a woman, and hair growing out of my chin and chest, stuff which I’ll have to do laser or surgery to treat, irreversible changes that I couldn’t even understand or imagine at 17.
I want to be a mother, yet my access to hormones at so young could’ve made me infertile. I had no idea it truly could, as I was given a 5-minute talk about hormones and then they offered them to me. No therapy.
No nothing. Ever since I got off T, my hormonal cycle has been an absolute mess.
I just wish someone had talked to younger me and made her understand that time heals all wounds, instead of jumping into doing whatever you want with your body.
That someone had just given her a hug, instead of an injection.”
Coralys Pabón Rivera, 21, Puerto Rico USA.
https://www.instagram.com/0neeyedh1m
“Detransition was one of the scariest things I ever had to do. You ever been so sure of something, and then you’re wrong, and you feel like everybody is staring at you?
That was me.
The truth is I was never a transgender man. I had gender dysphoria related to my own trauma as a female from being assaulted as a kid, which caused me to believe that if I was a man, men would treat me with respect.
I moved away to Washington state for college and was seventeen when I started testosterone, and a whole year later, I was planning how to get off of it. If only I had been made to wait till 18, a lot of things could’ve been different.
I couldn’t get a tattoo, but I could get life altering hormones without my parents consent. Because my parents signed a paper giving my university (where I got my hormones) access to treat me in any way necessary, they deemed I didn’t need parental permission as long as I had a paper that stated they could give me health care in any situation, nice loop around for doctors making trans kids who are trying to hide it from their parents. Horrible consequences.
Being a man didn’t bring me any happiness, it just made me hide my truest self. It caused me to have less acceptance for who I truly am.
Now, I have to deal with having a deep voice for a woman, and hair growing out of my chin and chest, stuff which I’ll have to do laser or surgery to treat, irreversible changes that I couldn’t even understand or imagine at 17.
I want to be a mother, yet my access to hormones at so young could’ve made me infertile. I had no idea it truly could, as I was given a 5-minute talk about hormones and then they offered them to me. No therapy.
No nothing. Ever since I got off T, my hormonal cycle has been an absolute mess.
I just wish someone had talked to younger me and made her understand that time heals all wounds, instead of jumping into doing whatever you want with your body.
That someone had just given her a hug, instead of an injection.”