Given the difficulties I’ve had with my gender reassignment I do have regret. It has nothing to do with who I am, I have never been happier with my own sense of self and identity as I am now.

I have a regret because I felt political pressure to expedite my transition at the fastest speed approved by the WPATH Standards of Care. This meant that I didn’t do my due diligence with regard to finding a surgeon who was competent and skilled enough to properly affirm my anatomy. But rest assured that I needed this regardless of that fact.

The pressures of society definitely weighed heavily on my emotional strife during my transition. But those struggles are inconsequential to the absolute necessity of becoming a the woman that I have felt I should have been since I first realized that there were variations in gender.

I wouldn’t trade my transition for an easier existence as man. But I totally understand how others cannot part with privilege for the sake of identity.

Those who have “detransitioned” are truly being used as pawns to harm the millions of who didn’t and wouldn’t.