Thread by @astor_charlie

This was me. I was 17 and suicidal every day. I hated my body. I had done everything to get away it, including wearing oversized clothes, binding my breasts, and eating as little as possible to prevent my body from developing.

I have always been a doer. Climbing up trees, fingers in the mud, sprinting along with the boys.

I knew I wasn't a boy. And that was okay. Because I could do everything a boy could.

But when the first rumours of puberty hit, at 10 years old, things began change...

Climbing trees was no longer "lady-like." I was no longer congratulated on my speed but my breast size.

Men began to make lewd comments that I didn't understand, but I knew they started when my body changed.

And that they wanted to do things to me that I didn't want.

I did everything I could to get away from it.

I was told by friends, and people on the internet, that if I felt this way, because I was never meant to be a girl; I had been born in the wrong body.

Over almost ten years, I identified as gender queer, non-binary, a "they-them", and was identifying as "he/them" - believing I was "really a man" - by the time I was trying to get mastectomy, hysterectomy, and a referral to a gender clinic.

In truth, I was not a man.
Because this is not possible.

In truth, I was making myself ugly, and sexless, to because I never wanted to be sexualised, and lusted over ever again.

My personality leans into the masculine temperaments, and I had undiagnosed Autism.

Only when I began to accept what had happened to me, and that I couldn't escape myself - and that I shouldn't want to! - that things got better.

Three years on, my body is intact from the surgeon's knife. I am confident in my body and my character. I love and am loved.

I was never a male. I could never become a male. People are not born in the wrong body. They struggle to be in their body.

Chopping people's body parts off is not the answer to gender distress. It is listening.

#DetransAwarenessDay #PubertyIsAHumanRight

For those who want to understand my story in a bit more detail, I tried to articulate the journey to trans-identification the best I could in this essay:

telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/2…

This person is wrong.

This narrative that "children would only be well adjusted adults if they only were introduced to sex as children - but the loving way" is a hideous experiment that has been tried and failed.

I am another example of its failure.

https://x.com/laidonplants/status/1767728337265320309?s=l20