‘Transitioning was the biggest mistake of my life’: 35-year-old Ritchie Herron says the NHS clinic where he was treated failed to fully consider his mental health issues, while also failing to properly counsel him about the risks involved in life-altering gender reassignment surgery.
‘Detransitioning’
Criminologist Richard Hoskins (56) has said he would have been saved from gender transitioning if he had been given adequate therapy to deal with his traumatic past.
“It was quite extreme how much distress had been caused to their bodies needlessly”. Psychotherapist Stella O’Malley talks to Tim Jackson about testimonies at the first-of-its-kind detransitioning conference where people who had undergone surgery to transition gender spoke of their regret, their experiences, and what supports are required for people with gender dysphoria. The conference […]
Highlighting the experiences of a growing number of young women who were encouraged to ‘transition’ to male and now bitterly regret the decision, Joani Walsh lifts the lid on what is really going on in the trans world; young women complain that their underlying psychological issues were not addressed in the rush to get them […]