‘Gender transition’ regret: the tragic aftermath activists don’t want you to know about by Jonathon Van Maren for Life Site
Unfortunately there is no easy fix for those who want to ‘de-transition,’ leaving such individuals to suffer the deleterious effects of ‘gender-affirming care.’
There’s a quote from Abigail Shrier in Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters that I think of often. Shrier is detailing the ways in which struggling teen girls often grasp at gender ideology as an answer to problems – an answer that seems both easily available and socially popular.
“Perhaps the greatest risk of all for the adolescent girl who grasps at this identity out of the blue, like it is the inflatable ring she hopes will save her, is also in some ways the most devastating,” Shrier wrote, “that she’ll wake up one morning with no breasts and no uterus and think, I was only 16 at the time. A kid. Why didn’t anyone stop me?”
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That story has unfolded countless times since she wrote those words. The latest story, published by Fox News this week, is titled “‘Tomboy’ who regretted gender transition breaks down crying describing difficulty of breast removal surgery.” TikTok influencer Nikita Teran, who still identifies as “part of the LGBTQ+ community,” has come out to reveal that she deeply regrets her “transgender” journey, “including taking testosterone and removing her breasts.”
Speaking to Fox News, Teran stated that “she wishes her treating doctors would have asked more questions to uncover the comorbid psychological issues Teran experienced at the time” and pinpointed her father abandoning the family, which appears to be a catalyst for her gender dysphoric symptoms.
“I would probably call it something like depression,” Teran told Fox. “Before getting in touch with the gender clinic, I was at another unit for children with mental health issues. So I was there first and I thought I would get some type of help. I wasn’t there for gender dysphoria; I was at that unit for mental health issues. They sort of didn’t know what to do with me.”
