My Detransition Is Over.
Planned Parenthood gave me testosterone over the phone despite my mental-health history. 15 years later I’m left with loose skin, heart pain and a voice that may never fully recover. Kids deserve evidence-based care, not ideology.
Overview
After 15 years identifying as a trans man and years on testosterone, Cat Cattinson has fully detransitioned and embraced her female biology. Most physical effects—voice damage, chest pain, excess body hair, weight gain—have reversed, letting her sing and create music again. She forgave herself after realizing medical professionals and activists downplayed risks and withheld evidence, and now warns that gender ideology is “a truly dangerous ideology, especially for young people.” Though stepping back from daily commentary, she vows to keep speaking to protect minors from repeating her experience.
Full Video Summary
In “My Detransition Is Over,” Cat Cattinson opens by stressing that she feels no lingering anger toward anyone involved in her transition. After identifying as a trans man for more than 15 years and taking testosterone for part of that time, she has now fully embraced her biological sex as female. Cat says she is “pretty happy and my life is going pretty well,” yet she continues to speak about gender ideology because she believes it is “a truly dangerous ideology, especially for young people.” She frames her public commentary as an attempt to help others, not as an expression of personal resentment. Cat reviews the physical aftermath of her medical transition and reports that most effects have reversed or improved. Chest pains, heart palpitations, and severe vocal fatigue—side-effects she attributes both to testosterone and to long-term chest binding—have largely resolved. Her singing voice is not identical to pre-transition, but she can once again record music and recently performed for family. Body fat has redistributed, excess weight has dropped, body hair has thinned, and even the apparent widening of her nose has subsided. She notes residual loose skin on her chest after years of binding, but says the appearance has improved enough that she no longer feels self-conscious. Menstruation returned, and she believes she remains fertile and able to breast-feed should she have children. Mentally and creatively, Cat describes herself as “motivated,” “ambitious,” and spiritually aligned with her “life path.” She is writing songs, planning a “crazy trippy sci-fi” music video, and slowly working on a book about her detransition. While energy levels are still lower than during testosterone use, she attributes this partly to age and no longer having the drug’s artificial boost. She forgave herself for transitioning after recognizing that medical professionals and activists minimized risks and misrepresented evidence; a Planned Parenthood clinician, she says, prescribed testosterone after a single phone appointment despite her documented mental-health issues. Although she receives vitriol from both trans activists and some gender-critical feminists, Cat insists she does not hate trans people and wants respectful debate focused on protecting minors. Looking forward, Cat is stepping back from daily gender-critical commentary. After more than a year of “explaining what detransitioned means,” she plans to concentrate on music and other creative projects for at least a month. She will still archive remaining TikTok compilations on YouTube but hopes a break will let her return to the topic refreshed. She encourages viewers to support her via SubscribeStar (not Patreon, which she distrusts), purchase songs on Bandcamp, and follow her music channel @robotofficial.