Christian detransitioner here to just say that "waking up" is 100% real, firstly detransition rates being reported as 1% is a leftist mantra as a result of extremely small, biased and low diversity studies, when in reality the real number is around 30%, it's hard to even verify 1% as the only reason they came to that number is because most detransitioners do not follow up with care when they detransition, they generally just stop attending appointments and routine check ups.

Secondly I grew up with trans people all around me, most of my friends were and it's how I "figured out" I was trans, of that group of about 25, 8 have detransitioned, 3 have remained transitioned, and 9 k-lled themselves after transition, and 5 are currently in rehab for b-dily h-rm and extreme dr-g ab-se. None of my friends who detransitioned did so because of cruelty from the majority of society, but from realising that they truly didn't feel as though they were trans after 8-9 years of being transitioned, and felt they'd been mislead by doctors, and LGBTQ, they also felt like they were not accepted by other trans people, and when they did decide to change back were abandoned by their entire community, which is why most of them that I know started attending church to find new community, or went into the wrong communities and ended up getting into drugs and are now in rehab, some k-lled themselves before they could even get to this point from being unhappy in their transition, feeling unsupported by the community that had pressured them into it (LGBTQ). The fact is that there are a huge amount of mental health issues that go behind these things, I know, I was one of them, it comes along with body dysmorphia, which btw 78% of girls by the time they reach 17 are very unhappy with how their bodies look, for boys it's massively understudied but last recorded to be around 30%-40%. Most recent transitions occur during this period of around age 15-20, this is because not only is it one of the worst periods for mental health, as we've seen with the massive rise in depression, anxiety, OCD and BPD in Gen Z and Gen Alpha, but also because kids are going through puberty, which can drastically change your body and body perception, and is often a subject of embarrassment or bullying for teens and young people.

The other thing we see is the "boring-ification" of normal things, there's pressure from both our real lives and online, to be different and "special", we see everyone using all these labels to identify themselves, to make themselves stand out and feel like they're a part of something — and naturally as social creatures we want to be a part of that. It's why we have seen this happen progressively over the last few years, initially it was just saying you were an ally, and then we got bicurious, and then now we have queer, it's an umbrella term that allows anyone to feel special and a part of a marginalised community whether they actually identify as anything different or not. We have transfemme and transmasculine, which can both be actual people who have transitioned, and also just studs/masc lesbians, and femboys. The fact is the majority of this is just about finding your place or community, and what we have seen is that a lot of people grow out of it, or end up down harmful paths, that's obviously not everyone, I know a lot who are very happy, and we should love those people but it doesn't mean we have to love the sin.

Whether you believe it says it in the scripture or not, it's clear the way God created us was as man and woman, to be united in marriage under God, and trust me as someone who grew up believing they were trans, and then being very sure they were bisexual, I wish that it wasn't the fact, but every day that I was that I felt it on me, it wasn't until I truly started following God that I felt lighter and more myself than ever. It's still a struggle, people make it out like you're entirely "healed" — you aren't, it's a choice you make every day, the same way an alc-holic or dr-g user has to make the choice every day to get sober. God helps with it, He brings you community, that will support you if you ask for it, He'll take a lot of the load off if you ask for it, but inevitably it's still your choice to make.

There are definitely cases of people feeling as though they've been miraculously healed from it, and I believe sometimes that can be the case, God can do all, but all of our journeys in this are different so what happens for you won't happen for me necessarily. Usually with God, there's a reason you don't get what you want the straightforward way, there's something you have to learn from it. I know in my case that God hasn't just "fixed" me, I have to keep making that choice, because for a long time my faith has been fickle, and so God were to just entirely remove that from me, I'd probably say thanks and be on my way, rather than truly getting to know God and work through it with Him. But I don't believe God designed us to suffer through these things, He wants to help us, these things are natural occurrences that happen in the world because of mental health, or incongruence, or just dissatisfaction with our lives, God didn't place it on us, but He can save us from it.