A Gay Man Details the Consequences to His Body and Life from Being Pressured To Transition When He Was a Boy

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UNKNOWN: “But if you want to see the truth, this is the truth. I’m an almost 30-year-old man. This is what I look like, this is what I sound like, as an almost 30 year old man. This is what happens when you let people transition an adolescent before they've had a chance to grow up, before they have a chance to even learn who they were. Not just let, but pressure -- pressure people to transition at these ages, young, vulnerable people who are already so suggestible. And I feel like everyone is ignoring the pain because they are afraid that it threatens their choices and their narrative. If you want to transition in your 20s, you've had a chance to be a man or a woman, and this is what you want to do, okay, that's one thing. But the active pressuring of people to transition so they can preserve their femininity, which is what happened with me, I was told that it’s -- that if I allowed myself to age, that I would become masculine and then it would never be possible that I would do it anyway, and then I would be a more masculine transgender person like them. And so I made the choices that I thought were right for me at the time. I do take accountability. I did it. I did it in secret from my parents. I take accountability for all my choices. But when is the transgender community going to take accountability for theirs, for leading me down this path? This is the face of an almost 30-year-old man. This is the voice of an almost 30-year-old man."