FTM Detransition: I've put in my 2 week notice. I'm quitting the LGBTQIA+ Community
I took testosterone for over a year, scheduled a double mastectomy, then woke up. Quitting cold-turkey sent me to psych ward. Today thousands of women like me are left with ruined bodies and no help—while activists still call this ‘life-saving care.’
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Former trans-identified lesbian Chance announces she is quitting the LGBTQIA+ community, saying it now harms lesbians by pushing masculine girls toward irreversible hormones and surgeries. She recounts 14 months on testosterone, a canceled double mastectomy, cold-turkey withdrawal that landed her in hospital, and years of isolation while detransitioning with zero professional support.
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Chance, the creator behind the channel detransjoy, opens the video with a blunt announcement: she has “put in her two-week notice” and is quitting the LGBTQIA+ community. She stresses that she remains a lesbian—“God knows I have a long history of homosexuality”—but no longer recognizes or supports what the community has become. Reading from a prepared statement, she explains that the movement has shifted from fighting for marriage equality to what she calls a “hyper-focus on transgender rights,” specifically the push for what is labeled “gender-affirming health care,” including cross-sex hormones and surgeries. While she concedes that everyone deserves rights, she questions the nature of the rights being demanded and the assertion that these medical interventions are universally “life-saving.” Drawing on her own past, Chance recalls that she once identified as a transgender man, took testosterone for more than 14 months, and scheduled a double mastectomy in Florida. She describes the physical changes—facial hair, deeper voice, fat redistribution—and the psychological disorientation of no longer recognizing herself. Ultimately, she canceled the surgery, quit hormones “cold turkey,” and endured severe mood swings that led to a week-long hospitalization. Detransition, she emphasizes, was isolating. At the time she left testosterone, there were virtually no resources for detransitioners; she found only a handful of Tumblr blogs that became “a lifeline.” When she sought admission to a women’s treatment center, she was turned away because her appearance and voice no longer read as female. Years of recovery followed, and she counts herself “one of the lucky ones” who could still reclaim her birth sex, noting that long-term hormone use or irreversible surgeries trap others. Chance says she speaks out because thousands of formerly trans-identified women share stories of regret, and she feels their pain “intimately.” She worries that masculine girls and tomboys are being steered toward transition instead of being told “it is okay to be a masculine girl or woman,” citing her niece’s high school where no one identifies as a lesbian yet many girls identify as trans. Chance closes by declaring that the contemporary LGBTQIA+ community no longer represents her or protects lesbians; it is, in her view, “causing great harm to lesbians young and old.” She hopes her testimony will reach young women considering transition, offering them the affirmation she wishes she had received: “they are beautiful on the inside and out just as they are.”