Hundreds of transgender youths who underwent gender reassignment surgery wish they hadn’t, a campaigner has revealed.
28-year-old Charlie Evans, who was born female but identified as male for a decade, stopped taking testosterone and became a female again.
Trans people who want to ‘detransition’- the process of becoming the gender they were born – contacted her asking for guidance after she decided to share her story last year.
“I’m in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn’t, and their dysphoria hasn’t been relieved, they don’t feel better for it,” she revealed.
The people who usually contact her are in their 20s, ‘mostly same-sex attracted’ and often with autism.
A 21-year-old woman, who identified as male since she was 13, contacted Ms. Evans as transitioning didn’t help her dysphoria.
The woman said: “There is a system of saying, ‘okay here’s your hormones, here’s your surgery, off you go”. I don’t think that’s helpful for anyone.”
Ms. Evans, who wants to help confused people feel the same way she did, is now setting up The Detransition Advocacy Network.
“We know that there is no such thing as a boy brain or a girl brain or that you can be born with the wrong one,” she previously wrote on Twitter.
“We know hormone blockers are unsafe because we need testosterone and oestrogen for development.
“We need to #BeBrave, and stand together.”
It is not clear how many transgender people regret their decision but according to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, it is ‘rarely seen.’
A trust spokesperson said in a statement: “Decisions about physical interventions made in our care are arrived at after a thorough exploration process.
“While some of our patients may decide not to pursue physical treatment or drop out of treatment, the experience of regret described here is rarely seen.”
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