A documentary on detransitioned men was released Monday that details claims of deceitful therapists and disastrous sex alteration surgeries.
The Lost Boys documentary was released on YouTube on January 15. First reported on by The Post Millennial, the film consists of interviews with men who detransitioned after taking estrogen and undergoing genital reconstructive surgery. The men speak of a broken medical system that capitalizes on shame and confusion.
“No happy person transitions because they are happy,” Ritchie Herron said in the introduction. “It’s self-hatred, not self-love that drives you there.”
Herron said he was suffering from OCD and taking antidepressants as doctors pushed the idea of genital reconstructive surgery to treat his gender dysphoria. He said he struggled with shame and the societal pressure against masculinity.
“You’re part of the sex that has damaged society for so long,” Herron said. “So you’ve got a lot of guilt, a burden, and you take that very literal mind: and it just goes ‘being a man is bad, I don’t want to be a man, therefore I’m a woman, or a trans woman, or something.’”
Herron eventually had his penis removed, which he said he regretted in a matter of months, leading him to “hate himself.”
“I had the surgery, and everything went wrong. And before I knew it went wrong, I was regretting it straight away,” Herron said.
“It was just savage,” he said of what the surgery did to his genitals.
The operation, he said, made him a “life-long patient” who is “sick to death of hospitals,” per the PM.
A Norwegian man said his surgery led him to develop mental health issues and addiction as he attempted to “forget what had happened.”
“An absolute massacre,” he said, describing the procedure’s results.
Several men described pornography as a driving factor in their decision to become transgender, as they were led to more obscure and vulgar content to cope with their shame. One man said his therapist told him “only a trans person” would enjoy the type of pornography he watches.
“Medical professionals really led me astray with this,” another man said. “I just don’t like the idea of being collateral damage for this movement.”
“I’ll never be able to have kids,” he continued. “My rugged masculinity is never gonna come back.”
The documentary was produced by The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, according to the PM. It serves as the last of a trilogy on the subject of gender transitioning, following Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender? and The Detransition Diaries: Saving our Sisters.
