Thread by @post_trans

This is Carol’s story. We would like to send her an immense amount of support and thank her for being so open with us about her experiences. ❤️
@SourPatches2077
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“Transgender identity offered me an explanation for why I was wrong. I’ve felt different my whole life. I never felt like I was really a girl because I never seemed to be able to act like the other girls acted. 2/10

When I was 6 years old, I cried and screamed because I didn’t want to wear a dress. When I was 9, I begged my mother for a football. She said, “No, football is for boys”. At school kids made fun of me for acting like a boy. 3/10

I was told the way I was wrong, that I needed to behave like a girl. Yet I could not seem to do this thing that came so naturally to all the women and girls I saw around me. 4/10

My early life experiences had a lasting impact on my sense of self and self-esteem, and I grew to resent my female body.  I hated being a woman. Unlike many detrans women, I lived many years as a butch lesbian woman before transitioning at the age of 34. 5/10

I had a series of life changing events happen after the age of 30 that drove me into a deep dark depression. It seemed like I was drowning, and my dysphoria became unbearable. The only way out I could see was transition. 6/10

I’m not going to sit here and say transitioning didn’t help my dysphoria, because it did. But the reasons it helped became obvious after taking T for 4 years and having a double mastectomy. It helped because I didn’t have to live in a world that thought I was wrong. 7/10

I started taking antidepressants for my depression and they enabled me to begin to ask the hard questions necessary to address my dysphoria without continuing to live as trans. 8/10

It's been the hardest and most humbling thing I’ve ever had to do in my life, but I’m glad everyday that I detransitioned. I feel for the first time in my life I am truly living authentically. 9/10

I’m a mother, a wife, a lesbian and I’m sure people still think I don’t act like a woman. But I know now that I’m not wrong, they are.” 10/10