Such a good article from a young female detransitioner

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Impressively intelligent self-awareness of the forces which drove her to transition.

www.feministcurrent.com/2019/06/04/dagny-on-social-media-gender-dysphoria-trans-youth-and-detransitioning/

Just came on to MN to post this having just finished reading the article. Such an eloquent and moving account. Hope it is widely read and shared. It might save other young women from this horror-story.

I'd like to read more by her & her friends. One thing in particular- she said she'd been told that growing breasts and getting her period were exciting things for young girls. Is this what they are being told now, does anyone know? I am quite sure I wasn't told that, rather more that both things were a total nuisance for different reasons. This seems to fit in with Susie Green saying, iirc, that a difficult puberty is diagnostic of being trans. Like fuck it is. It's normal for it to be difficult.

I cannot get over how insightful and articulate these young women are.
for the Pique Resistance Project.

Wow. Dagny is such an eloquent writer and I am so glad she is speaking out about her experience publicly, as much as I feel so sorry for her that she has had to go through all this shit at such a young age.

This article is really important for MPs and others who make decisions about this issue to read. Detransitioned people will only grow in number and as children are being socially encouraged towards earlier and more invasive physical transition (rather than watchful waiting and long term therapy) what help is there available now to meet the needs of detransitioned young people.

Yes to all of above. What she wrote below is so important

One fix is not going to solve everyone’s individual problems. Medically transitioning is not going to help every teenager feel better. In my view, the proclivity to provide teenagers with hormone replacement therapy and instant affirmation ignores the larger problems. Why did I want to change my body? Why did I hate being a girl? Why was being a man so much more favourable

The comment about puberty being an exciting time, and thinking that being scared rather excited was evidence of dysphoria, struck me as well. Are any young girls excited by the prospect of periods? I certainly wasn’t, I was scared and resentful and I wanted it all to go away. I didn’t even start my periods until I was 13- relatively late these days- and I wasn’t ready to hear “you’re a woman now”- that idea terrified me. It’s a massive, irreversible change, and that combined with the hormonal fluctuations means that fear is a perfectly natural reaction, not a sign that something is wrong.

Dagny is awesome (even if my phone’s autocorrect doesn’t think so!)

I’m not sure which of fhe Pique Resilience women runs this Instagram account, but it’s really great, and I think potentially very moving for trans questioning teens: instagram.com/detransstories?igshid=1fz9duetlghby

Thank you for sharing this, so well expressed. These calm, articulate women's voices speaking out are so important.

Puberty was sold to me as an exciting time back in the 70s but it horrified me. I'd have done anything to escape the pain and embarrassment and the horror of my growing breasts. I remember saying to my mother how I felt Men had really got me where they wanted me now and she said cheerfully 'that's what makes the world go around.' If transing had been around back then I'd definitely have gone for it.
To be fair, the 'exciting time' thing was a deliberate and well-meaning ploy to help kids come to term with something challenging and scary. I didn't count myself a feminist back then but I'd already noted how men always had the best of everything and I loathed the way women were portrayed in films, without realising that was just films, not the way it had to be.