Entrevista con Ame, testimonio de un proceso de "detransición"
I thought if I became a man, the abuse would stop. Social media told me transition was the only way to survive. Detransition was detox—it gave me back my life.
Overview
Amelia Guerrero recounts how childhood sexual abuse, bullying, and the sexualization of the female body led her to socially transition at age 12 after online communities convinced her she was a boy in a girl’s body. Viewing masculinity as a refuge from harm, she spent years hiding her body before abandoning medical transition as a solution. With psychological support and critical gender analysis, she detransitioned at 18, describing it as a detoxification from obsession, and now warns against gender ideology and Spain’s proposed trans law.
Full Video Summary
Amelia Guerrero, known as Ame, is a 20-year-old woman from Andalusia and a History student at the University of Seville. She explains that she identified as trans and socially transitioned between the ages of about 12 and 18, when she began detransitioning. Ame traces the origin of her distress to early adolescence, a period marked by childhood sexual abuse and relentless school bullying that continued through primary school, secondary school, and high school. She felt profoundly alone and unable to fit into expected feminine roles. Her interests—football, tennis, video games, and manga—were considered masculine, and she felt alienated from other girls. As puberty began and her body developed, she became acutely aware of the intense sexualization of the female body, especially on social media. To feel safe from further sexual aggression, she began wearing baggy clothes and male swim trunks, hiding her body not out of comfort but out of terror. Around age 12 or 13, she encountered gender ideology on platforms such as Tumblr, Tuenti, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Online narratives convinced her that she was a boy trapped in a girl’s body and that transitioning was the only way to be happy. She came to see becoming a man as a refuge that would protect her from further sexual abuse and bullying, believing that if she were male, she would no longer be targeted. Although she was convinced she needed to transition, Ame says she never pursued medical body modification and increasingly rejected it as a solution. She notes that the closer she got to transition, the more she suffered, knowing she could never change her chromosomes or biological sex. Around age 15 or 16, she began seeing a psychologist who, while not specializing in gender or sexual trauma, helped her build autonomy and self-esteem. This support allowed her to reduce the obsessive grip that gender ideology had on her. Ame describes her detransition at 18 as a 'detoxification' from a harmful obsession. She later encountered Marxist and class-based critiques of gender through organizations like Frente Obrero, which helped her understand her suffering as shaped by social and economic structures rather than individual identity. She credits healthy offline relationships with helping her relax and move beyond constant rumination about gender. Regarding Spanish legislation, Ame argues that trans people deserve dignified economic and labor conditions, but she criticizes the proposed trans law from a queer perspective, warning that it erases women and sexual orientations, endangers people with dysphoria who do not wish to transition, and threatens mental health professionals who oppose affirmative therapy with heavy fines. She reflects on her ideological path from mainstream feminism to queer feminism during her trans identification, then to radical feminism, and finally to a communist analysis through her militancy in Frente Obrero.