De transitioned former TW speaks of experience.

A video Patrick retweeted. It's long - over 20 mins, but very much worth listening to in full.

Gosh, that was a hard thing to watch. The poor man.

These are incredible. I've spent the morning listening.

Thank you for posting this link I look forward to watching these videos. I find it very worrying how the voices of detransitioned people are deliberately erased and omitted from the narrative at the moment.
These voices need to be heard by policy makers in the public sector especially the NHS including mental health services, Parliamentarians who make the law on this and the regulators and the professional bodies of the doctors, nurses and therapists that work with those seeking to transition.

The UK professional bodies and regulators of medical and psychological professionals are particularly key because they will apply guidance that binds professionals working in the private sector. Not all children and adults are using the NHS.

The potential for an experience like this man’s must also be accepted and informed about as part and parcel what professionals are telling their patients in an informed consent discussion. It would be nice to be able to attach more details to this discussion from the UK context, but James Caspian’s research on detransitioned people in the UK- and generally that of other academics around trans issues, is being blocked by the intimidatory atmosphere that TRAs are creating in UK universities. the Times reported on this just this past weekend: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3407331-Times-on-activists-threatening-academics

I saw this the other day and found it profoundly moving.

He's on Twitter: twitter.com/Rueckkehrer

Great information from a really thorough and impressive witness to the reality that transition isnt.

It just also makes me more concerned about the transition of young teens . They do not have the maturity for real understanding and consent - this guy shows how important that is

I am so impressed by this man and have so much sympathy for him that even, as intelligent and articulate as he is, he nearly ruined his life. Yes, he absolutely was failed by therapists. He should have been offered an alternative to simply transistion affirmation. Thankfully he realised the truth before he tooks steps he couldn't reverse. So very brave of him to speak out. Hopefully it will help other vulnerable people.

Yes thanks - I'll also be tuning in to that link also.

What an interesting and articulate man - and in English too.

I found his comments at the end of his most recent video particularly enlightened: where he talks about trying to find a way to accept his body and integrate his physicality into a healthy sense of self.

God, isn't that what we all have to do?

Betty indeed, in one of his (German) vids he says the transition made him more depressive, even suicidal, because the discrepancy between his ‚female identity‘ and the reality of his body was so disconcerting (albeit acknowledging that this is a common risk but not a certainty). This is what Cary described, too, I believe.

For the lurkers or those who may come across this thread in the future whilst googling for detransitioning info I am adding a shout out to Cary Callahan - a detransitioned trans ‘man’ (aka a ‘reidentified woman’) who makes similar observations in her own videos (all on YouTube and on her personal blog).

careycallahan.com

I hope he sees this thread! He seems like a lovely, reflective, kind and compassionate person - but also courageously honest and clear-sighted about his own story.

Great vids.

He is spot on. Institutionalised negligence is exactly what this is all about. The whole thing is deeply unethical.

There is no freedom or autonomy in people who are experiencing distress being pushed toward a fiction that will in many cases never resolve the underlying problem and will cause irreversible damage.

His fury here is palpable - I agree with him about therapists although as we know, we are fast approaching a situation where any therapist who does not take the affirmative-only approach will be struck off for "conversion" therapy and "transphobia", so I think the drive is far bigger than individual therapists in terms of power.

I only hope he is right in that this lack of ethics and integrity is not going to last much longer.

In German they talk about Social sex (or use the English word Gender for it) and biological sex. The distinction must already have happened with 2nd wave feminism, which pointed out that the role of women is socially constructed, I guess. But I agree, the Getman language makes the distinctions generally harder (female and feminine are the same word. Same for male masculine).

If not. How did Germany get to the same place as the U.K?

Does German conflate sex and gender in the same way as in the English language?

Definitely French native speaker, though his German is really fluent with only hints of an accent.

I initially thought he was German but having heard him pronounce Simone de Beauvoir I'm beginning to think he's a Francophone. Belgian maybe?

Very interesting, thank you for posting. I particularly like how he addresses psychotherapists and TRAs at the end of the second video, where tells the former to find another job, if they have nothing to offer and the latter that it is cruel to risk fragile people‘s wellbeing with their agenda.

Notably, in a video in German about Radfems (who he generally sympathesizes with) he mentions that brand new German guidelines now, contrary to former ones, say that transitioning should now also be open to fetishists (who he explains are mostly heterosexual late transitioners with e.g. previous sexual interests in women‘a underwear. He gets women are livid these can now claim womanhood, also understands in principle that women find it offensive how transwomen often seemingly reduce womanhood to stereotypes).

So Germany seems to be on the same track, full speed ahead.

Excellent videos - Tx for posting