This will be epidemic in a few years
Sally Lockwood, north of England correspondent, Skye News
Charlie Evans wants to help people who want to detransition © Getty
Hundreds of young transgender people are seeking help to return to their original sex, Sky News has learnt.
According to a charity being set up to help them, many members of the trans community are detransitioning - and the numbers may increase further.
The number of young people seeking gender transition is at an all-time high but we hear very little, if anything, about those who may come to regret their decision.
There is currently no data to reflect the number who may be unhappy in their new gender or who may opt to detransition to their biological sex.
Of course not, it's an experiment; an insane, stupid, evil experiment far beyond Count Dracula, Josef Mengele, or anyone else who has ever tried to improve on God's creation. And, of course, it is children who pay the price for adult's insanity.
Charlie Evans, 28, was born female but identified as male for nearly 10 years.
Last year, she detransitioned and went public with her story - and said she was stunned by the number of people she discovered in a similar position.
"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 says.
"They don't know what their options are now."
Charlie says she has been contacted by "hundreds" of people seeking help - 30 people alone in her area of Newcastle.
"I think some of the common characteristics are that they tend to be around their mid-20s, they're mostly female and mostly same-sex attracted, and often autistic as well."
She recalls being approached by a young girl with a beard who hugged her after giving a public talk, who explained she was a destransitioned woman too.
"She said she felt shunned by the LGBT community for being a traitor. So I felt I had to do something."
Detransition Advocacy Network
Charlie is now launching a charity called The Detransition Advocacy Network. Their first meeting is set to be held in Manchester at the end of the month.
Detransitioning is so new that it isn't even recognized as a word. Yet there are hundreds, and once word grows, there will be thousands contacting them.
Sky News went to meet one person who has contacted Charlie's network for help. She does not want to be identified so we have changed her name.
Ruby is now 21 but first began identifying as male at 13.
After taking testosterone her voice got a lot deeper and she grew facial hair. Her body also changed.
She had been planning to have surgery to remove her breasts this summer. However, in May, Ruby voiced the growing doubts she had been harbouring and made the decision to come off testosterone and detransition to identify as female.
"I didn't think any change was going to be enough in the end and I thought it was better to work on changing how I felt about myself, than changing my body," says Ruby.
"I've seen similarities in the way I experience gender dysphoria, in the way I experience other body image issues."
Ruby explains she has also had an eating disorder but she does not feel that issue was explored in the therapy sessions she had when she went to gender identity services.
"When I was at my gender clinic to get referred for hormones, we had a session where I went over my mental health issues and I told them about my eating disorder and they didn't suggest that that could maybe connected with my gender dysphoria," says Ruby.
It's interesting that she mentions an eating disorder because gender dysphoria is a lot like anorexia nervosa. As an anorexic looks at their bean-pole thin arms and tiny, almost nonexistent stomachs and decide they are fat, so gender dysphorics can look down at their pelvic area and believe they are the opposite to their biological sex. Gender dysphoria is a mental illness!
"For everyone who has gender dysphoria, whether they are trans or not, I want there to be more options for us because I think 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."
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust offers gender identity services for children under 18, with some patients as young as three or four years old.
As 90% of gender dysphoric pre-teens normalize to their biological sex after puberty, transitioning children before puberty should be a criminal act of child sexual abuse!
They now have a record number of referrals and see 3,200% more patients than they did 10 years ago - with the increase for girls up by 5,337%.
5,337% = 53.37 times as many. So, if there were 100 girls referred in 2008, then there would have been about 5337 girls referred in 2018. This is obviously a fad that is inflated by social media. Some sociology student, please do your masters on this.
With referrals at a record high, it suggests cases of detransition will rise too.
In a statement, a trust spokesperson said: "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."
Only because their eyes are closed. They are simply not looking. Have they actually done surveys? I think not.
In reality, attempted suicides of transgenders is about 30 times higher than in the general population. For girls who transition to boys, it's 51%, and that's while they are still in their teens or early twenties. That tells you that either half or more of these girls regret transitioning to boys, or, it tells you that the majority of children being transitioned have a preexisting mental illness. Such children should be treated for their mental illness first before even talking about transgenderism.
Gender transition has positive outcomes for many people and even talking about detransition is viewed by 'some' as transphobic.
Those 'some' are the LGBTQ community, who believe there should be no questioning a persons desire to transition. As if it was a simple, noninvasive procedure instead of a dramatic, life-changing series of medications and operations. As if it didn't dramatically increase their probability of attempting suicide; as if it didn't disqualify them from ever having children naturally.
But some believe further research and more discussion is needed in treating people with gender dysphoria, as well as more options for them than gender transition.
Indeed, and some of us believe people should not be allowed to experiment on children, especially when the consequences are so incredibly dramatic. Stop the lunacy and study the effects before allowing it to resume.
You can never return to your biological sex 100%. Your voice will always reflect the hormones you received at puberty or later. Your body shape as well. Your sex life may never be satisfying. You may have to take medications for the rest of your life, and your risk of certain life-threatening diseases may increase.
Besides, why do you think you can improve on God?
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