Watson

I've been sober for almost a week and it's been hard. Everything is amplified, including my dysphoria. I don't know how other detransitioners get through this. The messages I've gotten from young detransitioners & trans people regretting their transition make me feel ashamed.

I tell them they'll get through this, that I'm here for them - I'll listen. While the latter is true, the former, I don't know. I can't know. I'm not a professional. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't know how to help, beyond being an open ear.

I know with the ongoing virus and lockdown this may seem a small issue, but to me and manu others, it's reality. Will there be help for us once the lockdown has been suspended and life has returned to normal? I doubt it.

I've spoken to so many detransitioners, each with their own lives, memories, experiences, struggles, sorrows and triumphs. One thing remains: every one feels abandoned and rejected by their gender clinics. Every one felt they had nowhere to turn to. No help to seek out.