Sarah was age 13 when a woman who transitioned to a man spoke to her class in a BC school. Until then, she “didn’t know what being transgendered was.” But a seed was planted in the mind of a vulnerable, depressed child — one that has now led to regret..Sarah, a tomboy who preferred to go fishing rather than paint her nails, long struggled with not fitting into the “girl category.” After that initial talk, “LGBT group meetings” in school were led by another transitioned female-to-male. Sarah soon decided she suffered gender dysphoria and the only way to be happy and able to look in the mirror without self-loathing, was to see a male looking back. Now 21, Sarah sees her masculine, bearded reflection and regrets her decision to transition..This gentle, loving soul now knows that’s not who she is and has chosen to de-transition..“I was in a bad place. I got so lured into this I didn’t think about the after,” Sarah told the Western Standard in an exclusive interview. She wants her last name withheld only for her family’s sake..At 14, a puberty blocking drug started the gender-affirmation process. At 15, Testosterone shots followed. Barely 16, Sarah’s breasts were removed at Vancouver’s Lions Gate Hospital..“The top surgery was the most painful thing I’ve been through.” She doesn’t know if the hormones destroyed her ability to have children..To detransition will cost almost $60,000, which Sarah said the BC Ministry of Health — that covered her transition costs — won’t fund. A health ministry spokeswoman declined comment on detransition funding policy and said a Freedom of Information request must be filed for all transgender questions posed..“It’s weird that the government offers gender reaffirming surgery. Me wanting, as the world puts it now, to identify as female and look female ... is that not also gender reaffirming surgery?” asked Sarah..“To young transitioners, this is a life-altering decision you can rush into far too easily. If or when your mind changes, the government won’t help you out of it.”.“If I can help one person, that’s a person that might not have to endure what I did and am enduring.”.Youth are told the solution to their identity confusion is to transition..“The LGBT community likes to spread awareness. There’s a fine line between spreading awareness and indoctrination.”.“They only talk about one side when it comes to trans-children, as social media did when I was young. You hear many people say, ‘This fixed my problem… I feel so much happier now.’”.Sarah appeals to youth to determine if their gender dysphoria is “self-consciousness in disguise, trauma induced or a feeling like you’re born in the wrong gender because you don’t want to be sexually looked at as your current one.”.“I’m trying to play a gentle hand in this. I never had the view from somebody who’d been through what I have.”.“I’m trying to be as loving as I can and give no hint of judgement. The moment I do, people who are transitioning will turn away, validate themselves, or belittle what I’m going through.”.While transitioning Sarah lost her old friends, but was bombarded with encouragement from transgender activists on social media sites. Those cheerleaders have now abandoned her. “They drop you for your own decisions, just like that.”.“Thinking about where I was, how much God has done for me and the people He’s brought into my life, I want to help people escape the angry, bitter, close-minded state many are in. As soon as you say something they don’t want to hear, they’re no longer listening.”.Psychotherapy was never mandated for Sarah. One hospital wouldn’t prescribe Testosterone until she saw a therapist, which her parents couldn’t afford. She went to a clinic and after a “10-minute conversation” got the prescription..“I didn’t have to go through therapy at all. What kind of person does that to a kid? When these gender-reaffirming doctors make all this money, I have to ask if they care about people they’re doing it to? I don’t know if I can believe that.”.She felt pressured into the mastectomy..“When the doctor contacted me about the top surgery he said, ‘Yeah, a spot opened in a month, normally there’s a waiting list. We can put you into this spot.’ I kept getting calls like ‘We need to know if you’re doing this or not or we’re going to give your spot away.’ That’s a hard position to be put in.”.What lies ahead?.Breast reconstruction at a Florida clinic costing $13,635; hairline rounding at $14,998; and laser hair removal at $8,185. A voice feminization specialist offered Sarah free services, including surgery normally costing about $13,000..A GiveSendGo campaign has raised $18,000 to meet a $47,000 goal that includes $7,400 transportation and hotel costs, and $2,000 for female apparel..Sarah’s GiveSendGo campaign raising funds to transition her body back to her original female body is headlined Girl Raises Money to Transition Back from Boy to Girl, Says She Was ‘Duped’ By Ultra-Leftwing Radicals..“There’s real truth to those types of statements from people that are coming to this realization that there’s an indoctrination that’s happening to young people,” said Christian-based GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells, when contacted in Maryland by the Western Standard..US children are also being seduced by transgender ideology, where parents are starting to fight back to reclaim rights over their children..“They aren’t going to school to be educated anymore on finding truth. They’re being indoctrinated into being told what truth about certain things is…They’re being taken advantage of with this radical notion that just because they don’t have everything figured out about who they are they need to do something different.”.Wells echoes increasing voices calling the transgender movement “militant” and “dangerous” and “damaging” to children..“Obviously, the transgender movement doesn’t have great outcomes for anybody. It has such a high suicidality rate. The idea we would be supporting or pushing people into a lifestyle that has such a high suicidality rate is astonishing to me.”.Various studies conclude suicide, attempts, and thoughts range from 7.6% to 40% in the transgender youth population..A 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth studied 6,800 adolescents aged 15-17, discovering transgenders suffer five times the risk of suicidal ideation..“We’re walking a very dangerous road with our children. They need to be protected.”.Sarah is a “classic example” of someone with a decent home life, who was radicalized through the education and media systems, she said..Sarah said her family didn’t support her transition but, fearing they’d lose her, said they’d love her “no matter what.”.“I still feel bad I dumped that on them.”.“My parents never stood a chance in reaching me with the way society works nowadays. They knew they never could say no because that's a choice the government puts in the child's hands. If I felt they didn't support me, healthcare people would've suggested I live with someone else.”.“They were cautious and worried about what they said or did. They didn't want to push me away, especially when it meant I could leave and stay in a foster home.”.Sarah understands parental fears when children want to transition..“When they’re afraid and push their children away, that pushes them further into the arms of this community that portrays themselves as loving. Some of these people may genuinely care about you, they care in the wrong way. It’s a follow your heart thing. But when your heart blinds you, you no longer want to hear logic.”.What led to Sarah’s decision to detransition?.She stopped taking anti-depressants and started thinking clearly..She attended a church that embraced her for the person she is..“When I went to church, I was still transitioned. I prayed. I got off anti-depressants, and suddenly I felt like this male is not me.”.“If I don’t know what I’m doing isn’t for sure OK with God, I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to do it anymore. I said I have no idea how I’m going to get back from this, but I have to try.”.The struggle’s getting easier. Her support group grows..“There are so many kind people out there. It’s a miracle to see that.”.Sarah “so badly” wants to forward the kindness with her message to parents and children struggling with transgender issues.
