We meet Carol, who has been a woman and a man and is a woman again. Detransitioning was the hardest thing she has done, she says. She was so terrified and ashamed that it took a year to come off testosterone
Yet Carol soon felt wretched as a trans man. At first, the testosterone she started injecting at 34 lifted her mood and energy levels. But after two years she began to suffer awful side effects. Vaginal and uterine atrophy was “extremely painful”. Her cholesterol levels rose and she had palpitations. She also became so anxious she started having panic attacks.
No one knows how many detransitioners there are, but anecdotal evidence, and swelling memberships of online groups, suggests the number is growing fast. A recent survey of 100 detransitioners by Lisa Littman, a doctor and researcher, found a majority felt that they had not received an adequate evaluation before treatment.
It was in her early 20s, when many lesbians in her social circle started identifying as trans men that she began to think, “This must be it! This is what is wrong with me!” But she was told she had to live as a man for six months before being approved for treatment and the thought of using the men’s toilet was intolerable. By this point, she had met the woman who would become her wife and found some stability.
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