It has been said that āgender-affirming care,ā which includes measures given to individuals who falsely believe they are a gender other than the one they were born with, is a āgoodā thing.
However, a young man who received gender-affirming care and who ātransitionedā into a woman, has come out and spoken against the practice, according to a Fox News report published by the New York Post.
The young man, whose name is given simply as Kobe and whose age was not included in the article, formerly āidentifiedā as being a woman. Kobe had castration surgery at the age of 19 and described himself as being a āpatient for lifeā because of gender-affirming care.
Kobe filled out every box needed to fill the role of a so-called ātrans-adolescent.ā
The young man was always āeffeminate,ā according to the Fox report, and he loved the color pink as well as playing with Barbies.
Kobe said that if he was never exposed to gender ideology, heād simply have āstayed as a feminine boy,ā as reported by Fox.
āI felt unlovable as an effeminate man in society and everything. A feminine boy, actually. I was never a man, Iām trying to reclaim my manhood now and everything. Itās hard. I have breasts, I have the hip development of a woman because I started the estrogen young. I have no gonads. You know, itās hard. My skull never really masculinized,ā Kobe said.
The interview is below:
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Kobe has now looked back at his decisions to ātransition,ā and has regretted every decision made during that time.
He spoke out against the medical procedures he underwent, calling them an example of āself-harm.ā
Kobe said the procedures were a way for him to escape his āinternalized homophobia.ā
āI mean, I saw it as a way out of my homosexuality if that makes any sense,ā the young man said.
What Kobe did not realize was that the decision he would make would last with him forever.
The truth eventually kicked in for the young man.
āI was like, āOh, wow, this is so great. Iām locked in my transition⦠But then everything started to crack and I couldnāt ignore the complications,ā he said. āI couldnāt ignore that I mutilated myself pretty much with the permission of a psychiatrist. Itās insane now, looking back. Itās just self-harm, you know.ā
āAnd I said, āOh, you can do this.ā You know, I donāt have to be a gay guy. I donāt have to be an embarrassment. And all this horrible stuff that I thought about my homosexuality, and it was like a light bulb. It was like, āthis is a way out,āā he said. āI thought it was,ā
Kobe said that he told his parents he was āTransgenderā when he was 11 years old.
Although Kobe refrained from using the word āgroom,ā he said he was ātaughtā to use so-called āsuicide tacticsā when trying to persuade his parents to receive āgender-transitioning surgeries.ā
āI started using, like, āthe suicide tactics,ā because thatās what they are. Thatās what they tell us all to do ⦠I donāt want to use the word āgroom,ā but we are, like, taught. I guess the older trans people teach us to say that stuff to get the health care and everything,ā he said.
At the age of 13, Kobe was already on puberty blockers, and by the time he was 19, he obtained castration surgery.
āI was expecting it to help me help my mental health, and it didnāt do anything. I just wasted so much time and all I did really was become a medical patient for life,ā he told Fox.
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Kobe now regrets being on puberty blockers, considering that his growth is now āpermanently stunted.ā He has also developed severe, chronic pain in his body because of the procedure.
āI need to get checked for osteoporosis because I do have a pretty severe back pain just going up the spinal cord,ā Kobe said in the interview.
Puberty blockers have falsely been considered safe. They have been linked with lower bone density, as reported by St. Louis Childrenās Hospital.
Kobe added that upon receiving estrogen, his cognition has become heavily impacted. According to Fox, the young man would often have difficulty remembering things or speaking during a conversation.
āIt was constant brain fog. I was psychotic at some point. A lot of men that I know who went through this hormone replacement therapy, itās the exact same thing for them. Estrogen just makes them snap,ā he said.
He also said how his ādoctorsā would constantly praise the idea of sex-reassignment surgery.
āThe plan was always estrogen and then SRS (sex-reassignment surgery),ā he said.
As the name indicates, SRS refers to medical interventions that help individuals ātransitionā into the gender they āidentifyā as.
Kobe later expressed regret over his decision to transition.
The letter that gave surgeons the green light for sex-reassignment surgery āsaid hormone replacement therapy was successful for him, and that Kobe was happier and mentally stable,ā according to Fox.
āNone of it was true. I wasnāt mentally stable. I hated myself. I wanted to die, and I just was constantly trying to become something that wasnāt,ā Kobe told Fox. āAnd it was awful. It was dissociating, it was terrible. But⦠and Iām sorry that ā the estrogen ā I lost my train of thoughtā¦ā
Kobe recently began taking testosterone, but explained how he no longer has a functioning endocrine system, which are glands and organs in the body tasked with transporting hormones into the bloodstream. As a result, Kobe will have to take testosterone for the rest of his life.
āHonestly, I feel alive again,ā he said about being on testosterone. āI feel energetic. I feel confident. I just, I feel great. And it just goes to show that cross-sex hormones are bad. Theyāre just bad.ā
Kobe said that although he sympathizes with individuals who are convinced they are suffering from gender dysphoria, they should not receive āgender-affirming care.ā
āI just want to know that I am strong. I see myself as very strong for what I went through. Iām a pretty compassionate person. I do care about kids that are suffering with gender dysphoria and everything. And I think that they deserve help. But I donāt think that that helps,ā he said.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
