Detransition | True Colors
I was trans for nine years. Testosterone wrecked my body, mastectomy stole my chance to breastfeed, and no one warned me. De-transitioning saved my life—yet insurance won’t cover reversal. Kids deserve time, not scalpels.
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Euryale Enitan recounts nine years living as a trans man, beginning at 17, after older trans adults quickly affirmed her identity. She suffered immediate and lasting physical harm from testosterone and double-mastectomy, followed by severe regret, resumed self-harm, and a 2020 suicide attempt. Now de-transitioned, she criticizes the ease of accessing hormones and surgery, the lack of informed consent, and the affirmation model for minors, urging parents and clinicians to let children explore without medical intervention.
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Euryale Enitan describes a nine-year experience of identifying as transgender, beginning around age 17, followed by a decision to de-transition. Raised in a conservative environment that equated femininity with weakness, she says she internalized misogyny and “hated” being female. After confiding in older trans adults—who quickly affirmed that she was a man—she began testosterone injections and gel, followed by a double-mastectomy. She reports immediate and long-term complications: painful atrophy, urinary problems, rashes at injection sites, a postsurgical hematoma requiring a second operation, and permanently misshapen nipple grafts. She emphasizes that no medical professional warned her about fertility risks, bone-density concerns, or genital changes, and she now grieves the inability to breast-feed future children. Psychologically, the speaker recounts escalating regret: post-operative depression, resumed self-harm, and a 2020 suicide attempt that left her in a four-day coma. Upon deciding to de-transition, she discovered that insurance would not cover reversal procedures such as breast reconstruction or laser hair-removal, even though the same insurers had paid for masculinizing treatments. One therapist, she claims, immediately closed her case when de-transition was mentioned. She argues that obtaining hormones and surgery has become “pretty easy,” often requiring little more than signing a generic consent form, and she criticizes the use of puberty-blocking drugs like Lupron—historically used to chemically castrate sex offenders—on children as young as nine. The speaker concludes that minors are being steered by adult “influencers” rather than making informed, autonomous choices, and she urges parents and clinicians to “let kids be kids” instead of rushing to affirm a fixed gender identity.