"The 'affirmation-only' approach to gender dysphoria is in it’s very nature, abusive. By claiming there is only one option to treat gender dysphoria, it dehumanizes the suffering human being by stripping away his or her choice in the matter. And make no mistake, there is always choice. Transitioning or being transgender is not an innate identity. It is a choice. To frame it as anything else makes the sufferer out to be less than sovereign in this area, and thus dehumanizes them. Affirmative care with no alternatives is abuse...

"Dysphoria or discontent with one’s body is always the symptom of something much deeper. Transitioning treats the symptom but not the cause. It’s like giving morphine to someone with a shattered tibia. It kills the pain, but it doesn’t address the root cause...

"What I argue is that there must be a third way, mainly because I found it. I found the root cause of my dysphoria, learned how to treat it, and I realized that once it was treated, I no longer felt compelled to transition. I took back my personhood. I took back my choice. I took back my sovereignty."

"I wouldn't say I felt gender euphoria. It was almost like identity euphoria. I feel like it was all about ego and I already had a gigantic ego. I was like hell yeah I've found something that is dynamic. I had no self esteem whatsoever. But if you realized that you're actually part of an oppressed minority and that explains your life that is actually cause for twisted self esteem. Like this is something you've got now and that is alluring as well. A sense of relief form this burden I had been carrying."

"My experience of detransitioning has been a long road of heartache, betrayal, love, and most importantly self acceptance. I personally saw what "gender affirming care" was doing to me both mentally and physically, so I stopped taking hormones. A lot of people stopped being a part of my life, but it's more important that I accepted myself than worry about people not wanting to accept me. No one is born in the wrong body."

"If you have a perfectly normal healthy body part? The very fact that you would even have this idea of taking a scalpel to it means that you just inherently cannot consent to it. Llke, as far as I'm concerned… it shows that you clearly have a mental illness that would make it so you can't possibly consent to any type of surgery…You're not of sound mind."

"Internalized homophobia made me transition. Given cross-sex hormones like it was candy, no medical professional pushed back to question the underlying trauma and pain. Delusion and mental illness led me down the path that made me believe I could escape my biological reality of being a gay man. I was never shown any other possibility to heal gender dysphoria other than medication and experimental surgeries. After detransition, I see that healing gender dysphoria through deep inner work and uncovering the darkness is possible. It takes dedication to learn to love the parts of myself I was believed to hate."