{"id":193139,"date":"2023-09-03T20:33:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=193139"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:33:55","slug":"my-breasts-were-surgically-removed-as-i-transitioned-now-i-regret-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/my-breasts-were-surgically-removed-as-i-transitioned-now-i-regret-it\/","title":{"rendered":"My breasts were surgically removed as I transitioned &#8211; now I regret it"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Transgender surgery regret: 7News Spotlight airs claims medical industry is &#8216;violating&#8217; vulnerable young people struggling with their identity<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mel Jeffries was a confused, depressed teenager<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It led to a major decision she will always regret\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Trans OnlyFans star calls out Channel 7<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A woman who had her breasts surgically removed to try to become a man now feels she was &#8216;violated by the medical industry&#8217; and made a &#8216;mistake&#8217; that left her &#8216;worse off&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Jeffries was born a girl and grew into an unhappy, depressed teenager who, like many teens, was confused about her identity and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>She thought her life would be better if she transitioned into a male, and\u00a0lived as a man called Mason from the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>With testosterone treatment Ms Jeffries had a deeper voice, facial hair, more muscle and weight, but it wasn&#8217;t enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;All my hatred of being a woman <\/span><span>was just focused on my chest,&#8217; she told Channel 7&#8217;s Spotlight\u00a0program &#8211;\u00a0so, aged 26, he had her breasts removed, something she now considers one of the greatest mistakes of her life, as she transitions back to female.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Spotlight claimed there are &#8216;thousands&#8217; of vulnerable young Australians who regret changing from male to female or female to male.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/14\/75010785-12475521-image-a-26_1693747247649.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Mel Jeffries was born a girl and grew into an unhappy, depressed teenager who, like many teens, was confused about her sexual identity. She is pictured when she lived as a male called Mason<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0 EXCLUSIVE: Trans property tycoon who has changed gender three times is preparing to throw open the doors of her &#8216;fairy-tale&#8217; Highlands castle<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/15\/74971877-12475521-Lady_Samantha_is_promising_well_heeled_guests_a_luxury_taste_of_-a-36_1693752585447.jpg\" height=\"183\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>Lady Samantha Kane&#8217;s castle<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jeffries describes her life as a &#8216;clusterf***&#8217; and said she will always carry the scars, physical and mental, of the choices she now regrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When she was 16, she said she &#8216;was just looking for a sense of belonging&#8217; and found comfort in online communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And then it&#8217;s, like, if you do transition, it&#8217;s, like, oh, everyone gives you so much love,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before making decisions she now regrets, she had been through\u00a0&#8216;quite a few experiences&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was sexually assaulted and I feel like that was a big fuel for me wanting to transition\u00a0and not be a woman anymore,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jeffries thought being a woman made her vulnerable and an easy target and that she would be better off being male.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;The magical thinking was like, I could be someone and I wouldn&#8217;t have to be me.\u00a0<\/span>I wouldn&#8217;t have to deal with everything that came along in my life,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maybe all my unhappiness is because I was born in the wrong &#8230; sex.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The online community was almost like the love of a new family in supporting her transition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was told &#8216;there&#8217;s your biological family. They&#8217;re the family you don&#8217;t choose. And then there&#8217;s your logical family. They&#8217;re the ones who choose you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Starting on testosterone was easy &#8211; she was prescribed it in a diagnosis that took less than an hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Ms Jeffries felt that she had been encouraged to begin the process because she was &#8216;primed&#8217; by others into thinking &#8216;if you don&#8217;t transition, you&#8217;re going to kill yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;re just priming people to do this, to hurt themselves.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/15\/75010797-12475521-image-a-28_1693749823762.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ms Jeffries (pictured) said she will always carry the scars, physical and mental, of the choices she now regrets<\/p>\n<p>She realised she had made a huge mistake after the double mastectomy when, ironically, someone called her Mason, the name she had already lived with for eight years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That just felt so foreign and alien,&#8217; she said,\u00a0&#8216;that name just feels so disorienting for me&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She wants other people to know the pain she has gone through. &#8216;I&#8217;m never going to be over it. They&#8217;re wounds, they&#8217;re not even scars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s like, I&#8217;m still bleeding. I&#8217;m still &#8230; processing it and grieving &#8230; I&#8217;ve literally been violated by the medical industry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jeffries is not sure if she would like to be a mother, but would like to meet someone to share her life with.<\/p>\n<p>For now, s<span>he is focusing on her health and is\u00a0comfortable being a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Well, I&#8217;m female &#8230; it&#8217;s not just that I&#8217;m a woman. It&#8217;s like my sex is intrinsic to my experiences. Being female is intrinsic to who I am,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Channel 7 was criticised for using photos of transgender influencer Grace Hyland\u00a0in a promotion for the Spotlight episode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/03\/15\/75006145-12475521-Ms_Hyland_pictured_started_documenting_her_male_to_female_transi-a-27_1693749807958.jpg\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Transgender influencer Grace Hyland (pictured) criticised Channel 7 for using photos of her in a promotion for the Spotlight episode<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hyland, 20, used her TikTok account to slam the network for making it seem she regretted changing gender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I transitioned at 13 and I don&#8217;t regret it at all,&#8217; adding that she&#8217;d had breast augmentation surgery two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And even though my face is in this, I don&#8217;t agree with it, I don&#8217;t stand for this story, I don&#8217;t stand for the sensationalism of this whole thing. Don&#8217;t get it twisted Channel 7,&#8217; she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are around 1,000 adolescents on waiting lists for gender treatment across Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12475521\/Transgender-surgery-regret.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender surgery regret: 7News Spotlight airs claims medical industry is &#8216;violating&#8217; vulnerable young people struggling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":193138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My breasts were surgically removed as I transitioned - now I regret it - Tokens Talk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/my-breasts-were-surgically-removed-as-i-transitioned-now-i-regret-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My breasts were surgically removed as I transitioned - now I regret it - Tokens Talk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Transgender surgery regret: 7News Spotlight airs claims medical industry is &#8216;violating&#8217; 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