I Have Been Wrong
I injected testosterone for 4 yrs thinking it was my antidepressant. It wasn’t—it stole my ability to breastfeed and masked trauma. Medical transition is self-harm dressed up as healing.
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Mikayla Silverthorn apologises for sounding preachy and clarifies she doesn’t seek to ban adult surgeries, only protect kids. After four years on testosterone she now calls medical transition “numbing cream on a gushing wound” that masked her trauma while damaging fertility and health; she urges self-acceptance instead.
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In “I Have Been Wrong,” Mikayla Silverthorn opens by thanking viewers who have disagreed with her yet remained respectful, saying their kindness has prompted her to rethink how she presents her material. She apologizes for coming across “like I’m your mom telling you what to do” and stresses that her goal is not to strip anyone of rights or shame trans-identified people, but to foster discussion and mutual understanding. She explicitly states she does not want laws banning adult transition surgeries; her only legal boundary is protecting children, arguing that “five-year-olds should not be transitioning.” Mikayla then clarifies her core message: while social transition (names, pronouns) is not, in her view, physically harmful, medical transition is. Drawing on her own four-year experience taking testosterone, she says she once believed the injections were an “antidepressant” she could never live without, only to realize later she was “damaging my body” and forfeiting “a beautiful gift to be able to breast-feed children.” She likens hormones and surgeries to “numbing cream on a gushing wound,” insisting they mask rather than heal underlying trauma. Because she “did this to myself,” she frames her warnings not as attacks but as concern: “I’m speaking for you… I feel the pain you were causing your body.” Throughout the video Mikayla emphasizes bodily self-acceptance—“nobody is born in the wrong body”—and encourages viewers to “love your body just the way it is.” She acknowledges that learning to love herself took multiple therapists and a gradual reconnection with physical sensations she had long dissociated from. She concedes people are free to disagree, but refuses to dilute her convictions for the sake of “people-pleasing,” comparing medical transition to self-harm that others should not celebrate. Ending on a compassionate note, she says the channel’s purpose is to share her truth “from the heart,” hoping to inspire universal love, health, and respect rather than division.