If you look on YouTube you will find hours and hours of videos featuring very honest and quite sad souls telling their stories about their journeys into transgenderism and their consequent journeys out. They refer to their situation as MtFtM or FtMtF. These are people, still quite young, who now regret living for multiple years as the opposite sex (and perhaps all the fluidity leading up to it). As they explain how they got into transgenderism, such as for various reasons from childhood trauma to pornography to child and adolescent gender confusion to gender dysphoria to mental illness to radical feminism to brainwashing, or to a combination of some or more of the above, the more it becomes glaringly obvious that these important causes are completely ignored by the trans-affirming community, which now includes practically the whole world. Sad, isn't it, that practically nobody cares what life-shattering causes are behind transgenderism?
You will hear these people speak about how in the beginning they were, not advised to get psychological help, but only encouraged to affirm their delusion by drastically changing their outward presentation of themselves, encouraged by activists, by friends, by professionals, by family, even sometimes by misguided or psychopathic parents. So-called transition to the opposite sex may include opposite sex clothing, hair styles, and make-up, taking opposite sex hormones, face and body hair growth and/or hair loss, voice training, breast removal or implants, and other surgeries to remove or contrive body parts or change facial contours. Some of these procedures are obviously irreversible, including infertility and voice changes. One FtM decided to detransition (FtMtF) when she began losing the hair on her head; her deep bass voice (also from testosterone) is now irreversible. Some detransitioners are faced sur
geries to remove the breasts that formed from estrogen or replace the breasts they had removed. Yes, it is dizzying.
Heartfelt warnings are given on these videos. These include: Please stop and think before you do anything drastic. Children should not transition. Ask yourself, where did you get these ideas? What are the deeper problems? Don't oversexualize yourself or others. Don't compare yourself to others. Get psychological help first. Stay away from pornography. The transgender/LGBT community does not care about your true well being. Don't get brainwashed by the pro-LGBT culture. You most likely won't be any happier after transitioning. It doesn't solve your deeper problems. Your biological sex can't be changed. It's all a delusion. It's very dangerous. The high rate of suicidality of transgenders is not due to society. Find God. Love yourself as you are and how God made you.
We here at SoL feel vindicated---although it's been a long time coming and you won't hear any of these warnings hardly anywhere and we wonder how long even these videos will be allowed. Detransitioners report all sorts of denigration and criticism for their decision to detransition, nevertheless they bravely share they journey, with their regrets and hopes. Some say there are more destrans than trans people online now.
We may not be able to do much about this societal train wreck and the permanent, generational damage it is doing. But one thing everyone can do is what Rod Dreher points out that Solzhenitsyn called "personal nonparticipation in lies." "Let us refuse to say what we do not think." Do not repeat lies. Do not by your silence appear to acquiesce. We suggest checking out Dreher's 2020 book, "Live Not By Lies," which addresses how all sorts of lies are the majority of what we encounter today.
Our hearts go out to homosexuals, ex-homosexuals, transgenders and detransitioners alike, and everyone else involved or touched by these crucial issues, which is everyone. God bless!
