The following excerpt is from Detrans: True Stories Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult, a new book authored by Daily Signal’s senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan. The excerpt has been edited for brevity.
Helena’s lonely late-night shifts working at the cookie shop were giving her plenty of time to think about the choices she had made. “In some ways, it was a bit maddening, but dispersed within the general neuroticism were moments of clarity,” she writes.
“I remember deciding to take my chest binder off at work for the first time, because it was just me and one other worker who always sat in the back, and that f****** thing hurt. It felt so much more natural not to have anything constricting my chest underneath my work shirt.”
And she started skipping testosterone injections, mostly because of how anxious they made her. At this point, she says, she was only injecting herself…
