'It's Just Self-Harm': Detransitioned Boy Warns Children Of The Perils Of Gender Transitioning - 'Everything Started To Crack'

On Saturday, Fox News Digital reported about the case of a detransitioner, who they called 'Kobe' for privacy reasons. Kobe, who they called a 'young male,' expressed his discontent with the procedures he received as a youth to try to medically transition himself into a female.

"I felt unlovable as an effeminate man in society and everything. A feminine boy, actually. I was never a man, I'm trying to reclaim my manhood now and everything. It's hard. I have breasts, I have the hip development of a woman, because I started the estrogen young. I have no gonads. You know, it's hard. My skull never really masculinized," Kobe told Fox News Digital.

"I was like, 'Oh, wow, this is so great. I'm locked in my transition. . . . But then everything started to crack, and I couldn't ignore the complications. I couldn't ignore that I mutilated myself pretty much with the permission of a psychiatrist. It's insane now, looking back. It's just self-harm, you know," Kobe continued.

Kobe described the health complications he has faced since transitioning. He said these affected both his ability to function physically as well as mentally.

"I lost a lot of sex function. I lost a lot of sensation down there. The mental stuff was really bad, but also like joint pain. It was just something near all the time. I was, like, aching and hurting," Kobe remarked.

As has been well documented, there are a growing number of individuals who medically transitioned to another gender and have grown to regret that life-altering decision. Indeed, as The New York Post previously reported, "according to an online survey of detransitioners conducted by Dr. Lisa Littman last year, 40% said their gender dysphoria was caused by a mental-health condition and 62% felt medical professionals did not investigate whether trauma was a factor in their transition decisions."

While we sympathize with all those who experience a discontinuity in their physical and mental identities, the American people are not fans of pushing a radical gender ideology on the youngest of children. It is not fair, and it certainly is not in the spirit of our ordinary method of dealing with children's whims. We usually do not treat children as perfectly rational and autonomous, capable of making advanced medical decisions for themselves.

Gender transitioning often has permanent side effects after all, and these cannot be dismissed by saying that most people do not regret their surgery. The methodology of these positive assessments of the effects of gender transition has been contested by a number of figures. All in all, conservatives are on the right side of history here and they cannot surrender to the woke mob -- for in so doing, they are putting the children at risk.