Hi Everyone Transitioning or DeTransitioning if one ever considers it. Is up to that person and only that person. The number of people detransitioning, without quoting numbers is very small.
So is it wise for those who want to detransition? Yes, and for those who want to transition (no I did not transition) is it wise? Yes.
In my early days on Susan's for the first time, I made the following post and you can click on the following link
First Mention to see that post.
Quote from: Sarah B on August 26, 2010, 06:00:28 AMOver my dead body would I ever detransition. However, thinking about being a male, thinking about what I once had, makes me feel sick to the core and I would rather die than become a man.
Recently in another similar thread I made the following statement:
Quote from: Sarah B on January 24, 2024, 10:02:00 PM. . . .
OK to be brutally honest there were two instances where I paused and considered what I was doing with my life, one was the consideration of de-transitioning. However, that was never going to fly in the face of it. Why? I was standing in the middle of George Street, Sydney and I was thinking about others, that were considering reversing what they were doing and I thought what I had to do to achieve this, breast removal was one of the thoughts racing through my mind at the time.
However, thinking about this, 30 seconds at most or a very short period of time, a sickening feeling came over me and I immediately and emphatically said no to myself about this. There was no chance in hell, I was ever going back to the way that I lived and to this day thinking about how I lived makes me sick to the stomach, in other words it makes me very nauseous.
The other time where I considered the ramifications of what I was doing and possibly could of ended up not going ahead with the surgery, was on the day of my surgery. My friend at the time was driving my car and we arrived at the hospital and I sat there thinking about what lay ahead and realized that if I went ahead there was no turning back, but I only dwelt on these thoughts only for about a minute or so.
Actually my mind was basically blank at the time. I already knew with out fear, what I was going to do, I did not know what the future was going to hold for me, not that I thought about that at the time, so I got out of the car and walked into the hospital and as they say, the rest is history. . . . .
You can click on the following link
Second Mention to see that post.
As an aside. Did I need 'therapy'? No, although I had to do 'therapy' to get my letters. I had no gender or body dysphoria. Not that these two issues were ever discussed in my 'therapy' sessions. I had no problems whatsoever.
I was living my life as a female, had my head screwed on correctly and that if I made a wrong decision then I was totally responsible for my actions. That is what my psychiatrists saw and why I believe that I got my surgery letters.
Finally as I always have said, "I have never regretted what I have done" and "I will always be eternally grateful for my surgeon" and the part where he states in a letter; "that the surgery is irreversible". I always say, "Thank god for that."
Take care and all the best for the future.
Love and HugsSarah BOfficial Greeter
