{"id":2259524,"date":"2024-06-04T13:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-detransitioners-aha-moment\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T17:22:28","slug":"one-detransitioners-aha-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-detransitioners-aha-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Detransitioner&#8217;s Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fone-detransitioners-aha-moment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2259524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The given text is an excerpt from the book &#8220;Detrans:\u2062 True Stories Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult&#8221; by Mary Margaret Olohan. It portrays Helena&#8217;s introspective journey during late-night shifts, leading to doubts about the benefits of \u2062transitioning. Questioning her choices and identity, Helena&#8217;s\u2062 turning point\u200c came in February 2018, catalyzed by a video montage with \u2063her transgender partner. The text is a snippet from Mary Margaret Olohan&#8217;s book &#8220;Detrans: \u200cTrue \u2064Stories Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,&#8221; depicting Helena&#8217;s reflective moments \u2062during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-neighborhood-residents-complain-about-immigrants-taking-vital-resources-away-from-community\/\" title=\"Chicago residents express concerns about immigrants depleting essential community resources\">late-night work shifts<\/a>, which raised uncertainties\u200b about her \u2062transition. Her pivotal realization emerged in February 2018, triggered \u2064by a video compilation with \u200bher transgender partner, marking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-makes-woke-joke-at-naval-commencement-she-thinks-its-hysterical-they-dont\/\" title=\"WATCH: Kamala Makes Woke Joke At Naval Commencement. She Thinks It\u2019s Hysterical. They Don\u2019t.\">significant turning point<\/a> in\u2064 her journey.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The following excerpt is from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Detrans-Stories-Escaping-Gender-Ideology\/dp\/1684515017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Detrans: True Stories Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a new book authored by Daily Signal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-glad-rush-limbaugh-lived-long-enough-to-get-cancer-and-die-blue-check-leftists-celebrate-rush-limbaughs-death\/\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m Glad Rush Limbaugh Lived Long Enough To Get Cancer And Die.\u2019 Blue-Check Leftists Celebrate Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Death\">senior reporter<\/a> <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MaryMargOlohan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mary Margaret Olohan<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The excerpt has been edited for brevity.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helena\u2019s lonely late-night shifts working at the cookie shop were giving her plenty of time to think about the choices she had made. \u201cIn some ways, it was a bit maddening, but dispersed within the general neuroticism were moments of clarity,\u201d she writes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI remember deciding to take my chest binder off at work for the first time, because it was just me and one other worker who always sat in the back, and that f****** thing hurt. It felt so much more natural not to have anything constricting my chest underneath my work shirt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And she started skipping testosterone injections, mostly because of how anxious they made her. At this point, she says, she was only injecting herself with testosterone once or twice a month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And as a result, the frequency of her \u201cepisodes\u201d dramatically decreased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-why-cardio-doesnt-work-for-some-people\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s Why Cardio Doesn\u2019t Work for Some People\">started wondering<\/a> what this meant. Why was she feeling better, not worse, when she took less \u201cT\u201d? And what if transitioning wasn\u2019t, in fact, helping her mental health?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s a forbidden question in transgender circles, she quickly found. \u201cI remember browsing trans subreddits in hopes I would get some answers for what to do if transitioning wasn\u2019t improving my mental health,\u201d Helena said. \u201cThere were many posts asking this question, and by far the most common answer was to \u2018just keep going\u2019 and that one day, when you passed well enough, it would all be worth it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_746099\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-746099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regnery\/Skyhorse Publishing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helena began questioning her life choices up to this point. All these things she had done thinking they would \u201csave\u201d her had not done anything of the sort. \u201cThe only thing I didn\u2019t outright question was my choice to be transgender,\u201d she writes. \u201cThat would require a more up-front reality check.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helena started thinking about the comfortable clothing she used to wear before she started her transition process, back when she didn\u2019t have to worry about whether or not her feminine clothes would make people doubt whether she was transgender. She thought about how much she hated the way she looked in men\u2019s clothing (and \u201cthe way masculine styles looked on me in general\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI also wished I \u2018wasn\u2019t trans,\u2019 and even recall making a reddit post to this effect, lamenting how even though \u2018being trans\u2019 was making me miserable, I knew it was who I really was and after I got surgeries it would be right for me,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis kind of thinking, I now realize after talking to so many detransitioners, is common in the weeks or months leading up to detransition,\u201d she shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helena\u2019s \u201ca-ha\u201d moment happened in February of 2018. Her friend Jamie, a biological woman who also identified as transgender at the time and with whom Helena was then in a romantic relationship, made a video montage with pictures of Jamie and Helena showing the progression of their relationship since the day they had met \u2014 which was two days after Helena started testosterone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs I watched the video, I saw the way my face changed from so young, hopeful, and most of all, recognizable, to weary, deadpan, and foreign,\u201d Helena said. \u201cI began to sob uncontrollably,\u201d she recounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt first, Jamie thought I was crying because I loved the video so much, but I quickly informed her it was something else, but I wouldn\u2019t say what. I cried, and cried, and cried. Every memory those photos evoked was flashing before my eyes, all the pain I knew was behind my eyes was emerging vividly. I saw innocence turn to anguish and I knew I had been on the wrong path for a long, long time. I didn\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t know it would be this way. I was just a kid,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHow could I have been so stupid?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 Mary Margaret Olohan. Excerpted by permission of Skyhorse Publishing Inc.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: A portion of this article comes from Helena Kerschner\u2019s Substack, \u201cBy Any Other Name,\u201d prude posting, February 19, 2022, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lacroicsz.substack.com\/p\/by-any-other-name\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/lacroicsz.substack.com\/p\/by-any-other-name<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal and the author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Detrans-Stories-Escaping-Gender-Ideology\/dp\/1684515017\">Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult.<\/a>\u201d She previously reported for both The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The views expressed in this book excerpt are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mary Margaret Olohan&#8217;s new book &#8220;Detrans: True Stories Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult,&#8221; this edited excerpt reveals Helena&#8217;s contemplative moments during her solitary late-night shifts at the cookie shop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":2259525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1383040655.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-1383040655.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}