IWF ambassador, former ROGD girl, T and double mastectomy at 14, detransed at 16, politically homeless but mutes liberally, burnyourbinder@gmail.com
May 29 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The medicalization of gender-distressed children is one of the greatest medical scandals of our time.
I know because I lived it.
At 14 years old, after years of childhood sexual abuse and emotional distress, I was fast-tracked onto hormones and surgery with almost no psychological exploration.
My voice changed permanently. My body was damaged in ways that can never fully be undone.
What I needed was therapy, protection, and time, not irreversible interventions.
Jan 28 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I’ve been thinking more about this post from last summer. almost every ROGD transmasc kid I ran with back then has now desisted or is quietly walking it back. we went to the same school, the same secret GSA club, were in the same Discord servers, shared the same memes and infographics, had the same sudden “I’m a boy” epiphanies after one viral TikTok or group chat spiral. the only real fork in the road? I got sent to the one gender-specialist therapist in the county who treated “affirmation” like emergency life-saving care and fast-tracked everything. everyone else's parents either ignored it or sent them to therapists who paused, asked questions, and suggested watchful waiting.
I was 13 when my therapist convinced my mother that I would kill myself if I didn’t start T “right now.” she didn’t challenge my catastrophizing. she told them this was the evidence-based standard, that regret rates were basically zero, that this was a life or death situation. then came the disassembly line. referral to endo in under a month, T shot just after my 14th birthday, "top surgery" the summer after 8th grade.
my friends? they got stalled at “let’s explore this more” or “let's come back to this in a couple years.” that delay gave their brains time to catch up. puberty kept marching, the social contagion wave crested, and one by one they realized they were just depressed, gay, autistic, traumatized girls who hated their bodies for completely understandable reasons. they didn’t need to destroy themselves to survive.
