{"id":198534,"date":"2019-11-28T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198534"},"modified":"2019-12-01T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T08:52:37","slug":"gender-change-regrets-a-sad-but-increasingly-familiar-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198534","title":{"rendered":"Gender Change Regrets: A sad but increasingly familiar tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woman reveals she ‘deeply regrets’ decision to become a transgender male 20 years ago – and is now ‘de-transitioning’ to live as a female again<\/h1>\n

Jo Tweedy \u2013 Daily Mail Nov 27, 2019<\/h2>\n

A woman who decided at the age of 44 to transition to become a transgender man has revealed how she ‘deeply regrets’ her decision and is now ‘de-transitioning’ to live as a woman again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Appearing on Newsnight<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, the UK woman, known as Debbie, discussed with presenter Deborah Cohen how she feels she ‘mutilated’ the body she was born with by surgically transitioning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Appearing on Newsnight, a former trans man, Debbie revealed how she deeply regretted changing her gender from female to male at the age of 44. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Born female, Debbie realised she wanted to be a transgender male after watching an episode of 90s television show Kilroy, in which the host Robert Kilroy-Silk was interviewing female-to-male transgender people.<\/span><\/p>\n

She told Cohen: ‘I just happened to turn the TV on at the right time. Kilroy was on and he was basically talking to female to male transgender people and it was like a Eureka [moment].<\/span><\/p>\n

‘I thought ‘This is me, this is what I’ve got to do”‘<\/span><\/p>\n

Debbie, who says she was sexually abused as a child, set about taking testosterone and photographs of her three years into her transition show her clearly presenting as male.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now in her early sixties, Debbie says in the footage that she thought she would become a different person if she became male, saying ‘I thought I’d become accepted in the world.’<\/span><\/p>\n

After undergoing a full female-to-male surgical transition including having a penis made from skin on her forearm, Debbie lived as a man, Lee, for 17 years, continuing to take testosterone and wearing a full beard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now she is in the process of detransitioning after saying she deeply regrets what’s happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

She describes her realisation that she no longer wanted to live as a trans male, saying: ‘I remember breaking down, it was like “‘This was a mistake, it should never have happened”‘.<\/span><\/p>\n

Debbie adds: ‘But what the hell do you do about it? How do you go through another harrowing transition? I’ve got no hair, I’ve got a beard, I’ve had my body mutilated – what do you do about it? To get back to being the Debbie that I was?’<\/span><\/p>\n

She believes she transitioned as a result of the sexual abuse she suffered in childhood\u00a0and hopes she can now change her appearance with the help of oestrogen.<\/span><\/p>\n

She told Cohen: ‘I think I’d have to wave a magic wand but I hope that my hair will grow back in time with the oestrogen and the body hair will reduce and I can get rid of this beard.’<\/span><\/p>\n

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