- Devon Price was born female but started taking testosterone in 2018
- In 2020 he ‘tried to be a woman again’ but it left him ‘miserable’
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A trans man who has changed gender three times through surgery and drugs wants people to stop treating “transition” as a taboo.
Devon Price, 35, was born female but had difficulty identifying with both genders. She was curious about testosterone and started taking the hormone in May 2018 to become more manly.
But her mental health hit an “emotional low point” during the Covid pandemic in 2020, which was when she “tried to become a woman again” by ditching the hormonal drug and shaving her body, wearing heavy makeup and figure-flattering floral dresses.
But that left him “miserable,” so he transitioned again less than a year later, this time taking an even higher dose of testosterone than the first time.
This time he went a step further and opted for top surgery, which involves removing the breasts to create a more masculine-looking chest. Devon now lives like a man.
Devon Price, 35, was born female but had difficulty identifying with both genders. She was curious about testosterone and began taking the hormone in May 2018, then transitioned in 2020, only to transition again more than a year later.
But Devon, writing in a blog post about her journey, said: “I can only imagine how different my transition would have been if detransitioning, doubt, and gender experimentation had been treated as completely neutral, even inevitable things.”
“It’s better for everyone involved if we don’t treat detransition as if it were a terrifying taboo, as if it were simply a person experiencing and exploring the autonomy of their body,” he said. USA Today.
Price said: ‘You, as a trans person, are almost always (I think most of us) dealing with this fear of ‘am I going to regret this?’
He accused the anti-trans movement of oversimplifying the issue and assuming that detransitionists “have woken up and decided that they’re not actually trans.”
The exact rate of detransition is unknown, although there are a growing number of lawsuits by those who detransition against their medical providers, leading some to speculate that a class-action lawsuit may be pending.
Some surveys have shown that up to 94 percent felt satisfied after transition, but rarely follow patients for an extended period.
Mr Price said: ‘There is enormous pressure on many of us to present our story to the public, in the most orderly way possible; That we always knew, since we were children, that that transition immediately made us feel better about ourselves, that life was dramatically better afterwards.’
Many have questioned whether there are enough barriers, such as mental health assessments before surgeries, particularly regarding children.
Transition can be social, through changes in pronouns and clothing, and medical, through hormones and surgery to match your gender identity. Price has done both.
He first came out as nonbinary, meaning he didn’t identify with any gender, in 2016, after struggling with an eating disorder during puberty and experimenting with how to deal with his new curves.
“It gave me an empty, static feeling that I didn’t know how to identify as gender dysphoria,” she wrote in a blog post in June of last year.
In 2018, he began taking a low dose of testosterone which gave him a deeper voice and more toned muscles.
Testosterone is a male hormone that stops menstrual cycles and decreases the ovaries’ ability to produce estrogen, meaning it can affect fertility and sexual function.
But it can cause vaginal atrophy and symptoms similar to those that occur after menopause, such as dryness, irritation and bleeding.
She stopped taking hormones in late summer 2020, but resumed them less than a year later.
Even though Price had already transitioned once, he was prescribed testosterone again at a higher dose in 2021.
