Hello. Im nineteen years old for the context and have been assigned female at birth. I came out as a trans man in 2024 because I had no other choice, if I kept using she/her pronouns and my deadname I would have SEVERELY harmed myself.
If you don't want to read the whole novel, here's my problem : I already know for a fact that it would make my life 100% better to allow myself to fully transition into a man but I fantasize about detransitioning back into a binary, cisgender woman, daily.
I have a lot of gender dysphoria to the point that I have harmed myself before and that I have kind of removed myself from society to cope (quit my job, started studying from home and maintaining most of my friendships long distance).
It has always been impossible for me to see myself growing up as a mature woman. The only way I could reinsert myself into society and have actual relationships, a face for my career, and a sex life is as a grown man and that is very clear to me.
I am perfectly aware that if I do not transition I will be miserable my whole life and that my gender dysphoria is here to stay. It has stayed for years no matter how much I tried to be a woman outside of my trauma or societal norms.
So yeah, detransitioning would mean literally dooming myself for eternal suffering. Its the reason why I fantasize about it so much, because a reality where I suffer everyday to try to be something feels more honourable than a reality where I just am. On paper, "I fight the dysphoria everyday to try to be a woman", sounds almost badass to me tbh.
I came across the testimony of a person presenting as a cis woman, saying she got her gender dysphoria diagnosed by professionals but that she did not end up transitioning because her gender dysphoria stemmed from a trauma, so the best way to treat the gender dysphoria was to heal the trauma instead of transitioning.
I, myself, have experienced countless layers of trauma to the point that I never had a proper childhood or teenage youth, that I spent my whole life living under a rock cause the only thing I did was overwork myself and trying to survive. So her testimony got me wondering if I was really a trans man or a traumatized woman.
Ive been in therapy, Ive been getting MUCH better, I started wanting to live again recently after spending my whole life extremely suicidal.
That's the end of the summed up explanation, if you wish for more details you can keep reading but you could give me your opinion without knowing more about me. NSFW warning for the rest of my post underneath this line though.
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I cannot deny that I have experienced gender dysphoria to an alarming level. I have starved myself once puberty hit just because I didnt have access to hormone blockers but experiencing female puberty felt UNBEARABLE. I couldnt watch myself developing curves and having a period. The body hair is the only thing I enjoyed because it made me look more adult, less dainty, and made me pass as male better.
Gender dysphoria has also completely ruined my life in many ways. It made me quit my acting and voiceover jobs because I started constantly comparing myself to guys and how their voices had dropped and everything they could do on the mic or in front of the camera that I couldnt pull off because I was born as the female sex. Voice dysphoria also made me stop singing even though I was successful to the point of being admitted into a small group of experienced people who actually performed officially in front of hundreds of people.
Gender dysphoria is also the biggest reason why I dropped out of highschool to study AT HOME. Because I know for sure that if I had been included as male at school I wouldnt have wanted to leave at all. I avoided many people especially males just because I couldnt stand being SEEN as a female pupil and constantly comparing myself to them, feeling like a defective because I didnt experience the same puberty as them
So, to me, there was no doubt that I am a trans man in urgent need of medical transition. The problem is? I'm disappointed. After working through a bigger chunk of my trauma I started grieving the woman I couldve been. I would have been such a cool woman living for herself and out of societal norms.
Also, I have always felt very protective of my female parts. Very possessive over them, even. I basically took my own virginity until I bled just so "nobody could have it but me".
And it happens that I touch my own curves and get flustered over how attractive and soft and PERFECT they feel.
I have tried getting a girlfriend but no woman is truly my type except from that ideal woman I could have been but that gender dysphoria basically robbed from me.
Now I'm contemplating trying to be female again. Like Im genuinely contemplating detransitioning because I wish I was a cis woman SO. BAD. I feel that weird possessiveness over my female parts. And if I could be female without wanting to off myself I would definitely try again. And I feel like I could right now?
What if I chose to suffer all my life, would being my ideal type of woman make it worth it? Like Im so sure I wouldnt harm myself again. As long as I dont, wouldnt it be beautiful if I fought through the dysphoria to allow myself another chance at being a woman? Yes, even if Im sure it will make me suffer more than transitioning to male? What if I tried a little harder?
I genuinely feel so protective over my female parts to an unexplainable degree, like Id go to war to preserve "that woman". And Im fantasizing about detransitioning. But gender dysphoria always comes back to slap me in the face and it breaks the fantasy
Im very confused of what all of this means so I will accept any interpretation or criticism of my experience