Détransition : Élie regrette de ne pas avoir eu l'occasion de s'accepter telle qu'elle est
Élie was given puberty blockers & testosterone after brief consults. Now detransitioning, she lives with a deepened voice, body hair, scars and one haunting regret: “I never had the chance to accept myself as I was.”
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Élie, now detransitioning, tells FranceTV she was fast-tracked through puberty blockers and testosterone as a teen, with no one asking why she felt wrong in her female body. She grieves irreversible changes and wishes she had been helped to accept herself instead of being told she was trans.
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The FranceTV segment titled “Détransition : Élie regrette de ne pas avoir eu l’occasion de s’accepter telle qu’elle est” centers on Élie, a young woman who once identified as trans and has since detransitioned. Throughout the interview, conducted alongside Roman, Élie recounts how she began socially and then medically transitioning during adolescence, believing at the time that becoming a boy would resolve deep discomfort with her body and social role. She describes the rapidity with which she was affirmed by peers, online communities, and some professionals, and how this affirmation left little space for questioning whether her distress might have other roots. Élie’s central regret, repeated in different ways, is that she “never had the chance to accept herself as she was.” She explains that therapy and medical appointments focused almost exclusively on facilitating transition rather than exploring underlying factors such as trauma, internalized misogyny, or social pressures. She recalls being prescribed puberty blockers and, later, testosterone after only brief consultations, and she notes that each step felt both irreversible and increasingly disconnected from any clear sense of who she actually was. The interview captures her lingering disbelief that no adult in the process pressed pause to ask whether she might simply need help living comfortably in her female body. Now in the early stages of detransition, Élie speaks candidly about the physical and emotional aftermath: permanent changes to her voice and body hair, surgical scars, and the complicated grief of having to “reclaim” a womanhood she once rejected. She emphasizes that her story is not a blanket indictment of every trans person’s path, but a plea for more rigorous psychological assessment and for society to allow girls, in particular, space to feel alienated from their sex without immediately interpreting that as proof they are trans. The repeated line “I’m not sure if I’m going to go to the hospital” surfaces near the end, underscoring her ongoing ambivalence about further medical interventions even as she seeks reversal procedures.