Action4Canada - How I Was Deceived into Accepting Gender Reassignment Surgery

In this episode, I talk about my journey of coming out of the closet as transgender and how it has impacted my life. I also talk about some of the challenges I have faced and how I have dealt with them.

00:00:00.000 Well, when I started with this whole thing, of course, I didn't really know what

00:00:12.980 being transgender even was. I had no clue what it was, but I kind of had this feeling from

00:00:20.820 when I was a little kid, I was a tomboy. I admired my dad. And I guess you could say

00:00:28.160 the stereotypical man role, like the protector of the house. And he's a very important person to me.

00:00:37.560 And you can, even if people try to hide it, I could always see when they're struggling. And I think

00:00:44.420 I wanted to take on that role. I wanted to be there and help just to

00:00:50.400 a burden across everyone's shoulders is better than a burden on two shoulders. And so

00:01:00.260 I guess, you know, I went into elementary school, I never really fit in with the girls.

00:01:08.940 So I had all my guy friends. And there was things like, you know, kind of being

00:01:15.940 excluded from certain male activities. And then, I don't know, it was just all these things where

00:01:27.860 I just, I never fit in with the females. And then you have somebody come into your class, 1.00

00:01:34.180 I believe I had just started high school. So I had a trans man come and

00:01:40.980 there's a fine line between raising awareness for something and indoctrination, because they come in

00:01:48.940 with this one sided narrative. That's like, I am so much better now, I feel like I'm truly me,

00:01:57.760 I'm happy. And they don't, they don't really, they're just like, Oh, if you feel different,

00:02:03.460 it's probably gender dysphoria. And you know, hitting puberty, and having these male friends,

00:02:08.720 and then, you know, male, female, like, kind of look at you differently then. And I didn't want

00:02:16.100 that. I just, you know, I wanted my homies, I wanted to be with my friends. And I guess I kind

00:02:23.300 of, I struggled with depression, very bad through a lot of my life, being an empathetic person and kind

00:02:31.280 of seeing a lot of things fall around me and feeling helpless and powerless and weak. And

00:02:40.560 I just, I wasn't comfortable with being a girl because I had gone through a few things I would

00:02:52.140 describe as traumatic that pretty much just made it so I was like, I don't, I don't want to test,

00:02:58.480 I don't even want to be looked at in that way. And so when you have somebody coming in being like,

00:03:05.220 Oh, these will, this will solve your problems, if you're feeling this way. I was like, that has to

00:03:11.380 be it. I didn't know what else to try. And I've had horrible experiences with counselors and youth

00:03:18.700 workers. And they, I, I don't know, they just, I gotta say, I don't know how some of those people

00:03:28.180 even have their jobs. I really don't. But so yeah, being on these antidepressants, I was kind of just,

00:03:37.660 you know, you go in and then you're like, Hey, I'm depressed. They give you these happy pills. And

00:03:43.960 then they're like, come back and talk to me in a month, but I'm going to be happy in a month. I'm not

00:03:47.980 even going to remember what I'm sad about. And I think it's just really important that people work

00:03:54.600 on their issues while they feel, because if you're working on it, when you can't feel, you're probably

00:04:00.320 not even going to really know what those issues are anymore.

00:04:17.980 like, come on.

00:04:23.400 But I'm kind of enunciated to try todam.

00:04:32.600 Let's watch.

00:04:35.980 Let's watch.

00:04:40.640 Let's watch.

00:04:41.680 Let'sости.

00:04:42.640 Let's play.

00:04:44.820 Let's try.

Action4Canada - October 29, 2022

How I Was Deceived into Accepting Gender Reassignment Surgery

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