Transgender: The Truth
Testosterone didn’t cure my dysphoria— it dulled every feeling, endangered my fertility and chained me to a needle for life. Puberty is not a disease; don’t let clinics sell you a lifelong experiment.
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Mikayla Silverthorn, a detransitioner who took testosterone for four years, says the drug blunted her emotions, left her fertility uncertain and was pushed on her after a single therapist visit. She argues medical transition is an industry-run “science experiment” that harvests animal hormones, fuels lifelong dependence and distracts from unhealed trauma like the childhood sexual abuse she now links to her dysphoria.
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In the video “Transgender: The Truth,” Mikayla Silverthorn presents herself as a detransitioner who once identified as transgender and took testosterone for four years. She recalls that medical professionals warned her that testosterone “puts you at a higher risk for ovarian cancers, for cervical cancers,” yet she feels the warning was minimized. After stopping the injections, Mikayla says she realized the hormones had blunted her emotions—leaving her “less depressed” but also “less happy, less sad, less emotion”—and she now believes the treatment was “a science experiment” that permanently damaged her fertility and overall health. Mikayla describes the ease with which she obtained the prescription: a single therapist visit produced a letter that same day, and soon she was “stabbing myself with a needle every week.” She asserts that the industry profits from vulnerable people who “need an answer” for their pain, arguing that medical transition is “not good for the environment,” harms animals whose hormones are harvested, and keeps patients “completely reliant on this industry for the rest of your life.” She adds that many detransitioners she has spoken with share these regrets. Central to her testimony is the claim that gender dysphoria is rooted in unaddressed trauma rather than innate identity. Mikayla discloses that she was “sexually abused as a child,” memories of which were so repressed that she did not connect the abuse to her bodily discomfort until years after beginning transition. She now believes that “all people who are going through this gender dysphoria are people who have been traumatized,” and that medical transition merely distracts from the “healing” that trauma requires. Mikayla also reflects on her double mastectomy, admitting that for a time it felt “nice to not get cat-called,” yet she now questions whether surgery was necessary to feel comfortable in her body. She urges viewers to practice daily self-love—literally looking in the mirror and saying, “I love my body”—and to seek therapy instead of hormones. While acknowledging that her stance is “unpopular” and has cost her friendships, she insists she speaks “from the heart” and “from truth,” motivated by care rather than hate, and encourages anyone considering transition to research both sides before making irreversible decisions.