Abel Garcia began transitioning from male to female at age 19 while living in Southern California. After attempting to live as a young woman for a few years, though, he decided to “detransition” to a man again—but not without resistance from those who readily had signed off on his hormone treatment and breast implant surgery in the first place. …
Garcia didn’t move forward with “bottom” surgery, though he decided to receive breast implants in 2018.
“I thought this was going to be good for me and this is what’s going to be the rest of my life,” he says.
His doctors didn’t warn him of the potential side effects of his surgery and hormone treatment, Garcia recalls. He described the symptoms that developed since his transition treatment—including numbness in his chest, genital atrophy, and a tremor on the left side of his body.
Doctors also didn’t mention the effects of cross-sex hormones and surgeries on his fertility, he says.
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