Trans individuals resort to methods such as hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery to achieve the body they want to see themselves. Although gender reassignment surgery is easier today with the development of technology and the medical industry, it is still quite challenging for individuals who have undergone the operation. Trans individuals who have gone through this process begin this process by saying that they generally do not feel like they belong to the body they are in.
Transgender people often undergo hormone therapy for years and are often put on the operating table. However, as if the difficulty of this whole process they went through was not enough, they experience great difficulties in the social and business environments they entered due to this change they went through in many countries. Considering this whole process, although it is a very tiring process, there are millions of trans individuals who choose to face this process rather than living in a body they do not feel belong to.
He had been transgendered as a trans man; now she wants to be a woman again
Issa İsmail, who lives in Detroit, Michigan, decided to become a transgender man at the age of 19. She used testosterone for 6 years to change her gender and had her breasts removed in 2016. With the help of the hormones he used, he had a thicker voice, beard and masculine muscle development.
“I realized that I should listen to myself”
Realizing that she was not happy as a man after all the process she went through and the change she went through, Issa fell into depression. After her third or fourth anniversary, her depression worsened. At the age of 26, Issa decided to become a woman again. She stopped hormone therapy. He said that he experienced a kind of enlightenment and after that he felt great relief that he didn’t have to use hormones all his life. After all these processes, Issa says she hopes to help people who have difficulties in terms of their sexual identity and change.
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