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.

They were trans. I was trans. We suffer from dysphoria. Some really need support. But where is the trans community? Attacking us. Calling us traitors and fakes. They don't want us. We're "traitors". Well, fuck you. You self-righteous, self-serving arseholes.

I spoke to Blaire before my detransition, when I was a trans man. She was always nice to me.