The biggest mistake of my life
Ritchie Herron (35, Brite) kämpfte jahrelang mit einer Reihe von psychischen Problemen, er unterdrückte von jeher seine Homosexualität, Schließlich glaubte er, die Lösung für seine Befindlichkeiten läge darin, zur Frau zu transitionieren.
Seither ist Ritchie unfruchtbar, inkontinent und hat ständig Schmerzen. Er will nun den „Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust” wegen Beihilfe zu dem, was er heute als „größten Fehler seines Lebens“ bezeichnet, verklagen.
Die NHS-Klinik habe nicht nur seine verschärfte psychische Gesundheitskrise unberücksichtigt gelassen, sondern ihn auch nicht angemessen über die Risiken beraten.
„People supported by the Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service receive their care from a multi-disciplinary team, including medical consultants, psychologists, specialist nurses, psychotherapists and communication therapists. Care plans are collaborative and personally tailored to meet each patient’s needs and goals, and treatment decisions are made following a thorough assessment in line with national recommendations." NHS-Statement
Obwohl Ritchie eine OCD-Diagnose (OCD≈Zwangsstörungen) hatte, zudem Ängste und Depressionen, außerdem über sich selbst sagt, dass er von der Vorstellung eine Frau zu werden, besessen war, bekam er die Indikation für die medizinische Transition.
Der Anwalt von Ritchie Herron sagte, Patienten wie Ritchie hätten:
'a lifetime of medical care and consequences' and 'cannot be put back together again.' … 'My concern is clinicians failed to identify red flags and change direction. Proper consideration needs to be given to issues such as OCD, internalised homophobia, depression, drug use, sexual abuse and childhood trauma as potential reasons for patients’ rejecting their sexed body.'
'My first thought as I came round was Oh God! What have I done?': Man suing the NHS over trans surgery he bitterly regrets has bravely waived anonymity to share his ordeal, dailymail, 25.07.2022
Die Lösung beginnt damit, ehrlich zu sein
Ritchie Herron überlegt, wie und warum er und andere Leute vom Typ „Soft Boys, Tomgirls, Nerds" etc. eine Verlockung in der Trans*-Idee finden, darauf „hereinfallen" und davon besessen werden „wie ein wiedergeboreren Christ".
“But you had so much therapy,” people will say. I saw a fucking gender therapist. It’s like going to see a priest if you’re thinking about leaving the religion. It’s insane. And none of it – not the hormones, voice exercises, lasers, nor even when the surgeon removed my testicles, inverted my penis, and shoved it back inside my flesh and called it a vagina – made me a woman.
Die Angst davor, zum Mann zu werden, Ritchie Herron, schweizermonat.ch, 01.12.2023
Ritchie Herron über die Gründe seine Erfahrungen zu teilen
„Ich will, dass das Trans-Narrativ mit der gebotenen Skepsis behandelt wird. Weil dieses Narrativ dafür verantwortlich ist, dass die Leute so besessen sind – und falsche Entscheidungen fällen. Und es verfestigt nebenbei die Geschlechterrollen, die Stereotypen.”
„Aus Affirmation wurde auch ein sehr lukratives und profitables Geschäft”.
„Ich frage mich jedoch, was ich mit meinem Körper ohne Geschlechtsorgane anfangen soll. Nichts.”
Ich möchte nie wieder in die Nähe eines Skalpells kommen, Welt, 10.08.2022 (Bezahlschranke)
Ritchie Herron im Interview mit James Esses, YT, 07.11.2022
What the Experts Don't Want You to Know About Trans Vaginoplasty, YT, 28.11.2023
Woke Doctors TRICKED Me Into Gender Surgery, YT, 24.07.2024
'Doctors refused to let me admit my transition was a mistake. Now I want to reverse it', telegraph, 13.08.2024
Ritchie Herron - Life After Detransition, Detrans Awareness Day 2023, YT, 12.03.2023
„We [detransitioniers] deserve a safety net, we deserve to be challenged in our beliefs before we make irreversible decisions that have huge lifelong consequences, we deserve to be caught and cared for. We do not deserve to be punished for asking for help, by being castrated and gaslighted into a way of thinking that isn’t our own.”
‘NHS trans surgery damaged my body for ever — it’s not safe’, the times, 04.06.2023
Nach Transition und Detransition war ich so suizidgefährdet, wie nie zuvor
Schwere urogenitale Schäden sind eine häufige Folge der Genital-Operation (Urologe Zeki Bayraktar. 27.03.2025).
I have no sensation in my crotch region at all. You could stab me with a knife and I wouldn’t know. The entire area is numb, like it’s shell shocked and unable to comprehend what happened, even 4 years on. No one told me that the base area of your penis is left. It can’t be removed—meaning you’re left with a literal stump inside that twitches. When you take Testosterone and your libido returns, you wake up with morning wood, without the tree. I wish this was a joke. And that’s something that will never come back and one of the reason I got surgery. My sex drive died about 6 months on HRT and at the time I was glad to be rid of it, but now 10 years later, Im realising what im missing out on and won’t get back. Because even if I had a sex drive, my neo vagina is so narrow and small, I wouldn’t even be able to have sex if I wanted to. And when I do use a small dilator, I have random pockets of sensation that only seem to pick up pain, rather than pleasure. Any pleasure I do get comes from the Prostate that was moved forward and wrapped in glands [sic] from the penis, meaning anal sex isn’t possible and can risk further damage.
Then there’s the dreams. I dream often, that I have both sets of genitals, in the dream I’m distressed to have both, why both I think? I tell myself to wake up because I know its just a dream. And I awaken to a living nightmare. In those moments of amnesia as I would wake, I would reach down to my crotch area expecting something that was there for decades, and it’s not. My heart skips a beat, every single time … And finally there’s dilation, which is like some sort of demonic ceremony where you impale yourself for 20 agonising minutes to remind you of your own stupidity. This isn’t even the half of it, And this isn’t regret either, this is grief and anger. F–k everyone who let this happen. (Ritchie Herron, 13.06.2022 auf X)