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Transgenderism on Trial
~~~~~~~~~~~ From Trauma to Triumph - How Airiel Salvatore Is Shining a Light on the Transgender Delusion October 2024 |
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He calls himself “Patient Zero”” The patient zero idiom refers to the initial patient to be infected in a contagion. Even though 35-year-old Airiel Salvatore was not the first transgender in history, he was the first to ‘transition’ among his later-found but very outspoken detransitioner peer group. We recently spoke with Airiel about his experience and where he is today.
From an early age, Airiel was abused by a drug-addicted father who constantly berated him and told him to “be a man!” His father was a bully. He would ask Airiel if he was “a little girl” because he wasn’t satisfied that his young son was “acting like a man.”
According to Airiel, in the early years, his mother was emotionally incapable of being there for him due to depression and other family issues. However, when he was with his mother in the absence of his father, there was a sense of normalcy. She regrets all that Airiel suffered, and, today, she and her son have a loving and supportive relationship.
Airiel internalized all the mixed signals through the torment and trauma and began to think about his father’s question – are you a little girl? He started thinking, ‘if I were a girl, maybe my father won’t berate and abuse me,’ even though he knew he did not desire to be a girl. That was just the beginning.
When puberty started for him, around age 12-13, Airiel had discomfort and “a feeling of body dysmorphia.” He started to imagine himself as a girl and thought maybe being a girl would make him happy.
This was a time when social media was in its infancy and online influencers were not prevalent. However, Airiel remembers being impressed by a certain television show about transsexuals who were modifying their bodies to appear like the opposite sex.
Airiel moved around quite a bit and says he saw numerous doctors - including psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. The mental health professionals “did not look at his real problems.” Without many questions being asked, it was in San Francisco where he was first prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones between the ages of 15 and 16 in 2005. He said his puberty was completely halted, that “it was like arrested development.” He would continue taking hormones off and on for the next 18 years.
Airiel was an early transitioner among his peers in the mid 2000’s, during the “transgender wave” as he described it. The online transgender community was new, yet Airiel found groups of people who confirmed and supported what he was going through.
Ten years ago, in 2014, he decided to take a drastic step further and have genital reassignment surgery. Doctors in another country performed a vaginoplasty on Airiel, which, he says, “does not work.” Sadly, he said that it is “too late to sue” these doctors for not being upfront about the procedure’s efficacy because of the statute of limitations.
One and a half years after his surgery, Airiel was forced to admit that the drugs and surgery were a mistake and that the happiness he thought he’d have wasn’t realized. When he was turning 34, over a year ago, he knew he would never get back what he had and that he’ll never have what he thought he wanted: “I decided to stop running from my past.”
Airiel then began the process of detransitioning. He says “to be androgynous” must be his goal now.
Last month, Airiel was one of six inspirational participants at a Detransitioner Panel Discussion entitled “The Next Chapter-Moving Forward with Insights and Inspiration” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event was one of three presented by Partners For Ethical Care this year. You can watch the event here.
The six detransitioners on the panel were Soren Aldaco, Laura Becker, Chloe Cole, Nicolas Blooms, Kevin Jones and Airiel Salvatore. The objective was to help people understand the harms of gender-affirming care. Sponsors of the event included Parents Patrol, The Wellness Way, New Mexico Freedoms Alliance, Parents Matter Coalition, Illinois Family Institute, and Awake Illinois.
During the panel discussion, Airiel heralded that “the trans identity is fundamentally a rejection of self and reality. There is no such thing as a trans child.”
European studies have shown that most minor children who present with body dysmorphia or dysphoria tend to grow out of it. Airiel told the New York Post earlier this year concerning those studies: “That totally comports with my experience, given what I observed among a lot of my transgender friends.”
In terms of what is happening around the gender issue in the U.S., Airiel says, “I do think we’re at the start of a pendulum swing back. Until recently, stating biological reality could straight up get you canceled.”
“But now I think people are coming around to recognizing the lunacy. We’re going to look back on this period with complete fascination about the human psychology at play.”
“It just sucks that so many people had to suffer.”
When asked what he would have told his younger self about gender dysphoria. He responded “to look inward . . . to learn about myself.”
On how we can better serve the younger generations and keep them from the pain that he and others have suffered, he said, “We should do our best to teach them. We need to tell the right stories – the ones not being told. We need more truth.”
Airiel currently lives and works in the Seattle area where, like his search for his true self, he has moved out of a crowded confused city into a new neighborhood where he says “it feels like you can walk between the trees.” He is rebuilding his life, “trying to see myself in a realistic way while building an online presence to be a positive force in the world.”
Many thanks to Airiel Salvatore for his time and his enormous courage in sharing his experiences to help others find reality.
From an early age, Airiel was abused by a drug-addicted father who constantly berated him and told him to “be a man!” His father was a bully. He would ask Airiel if he was “a little girl” because he wasn’t satisfied that his young son was “acting like a man.”
According to Airiel, in the early years, his mother was emotionally incapable of being there for him due to depression and other family issues. However, when he was with his mother in the absence of his father, there was a sense of normalcy. She regrets all that Airiel suffered, and, today, she and her son have a loving and supportive relationship.
Airiel internalized all the mixed signals through the torment and trauma and began to think about his father’s question – are you a little girl? He started thinking, ‘if I were a girl, maybe my father won’t berate and abuse me,’ even though he knew he did not desire to be a girl. That was just the beginning.
When puberty started for him, around age 12-13, Airiel had discomfort and “a feeling of body dysmorphia.” He started to imagine himself as a girl and thought maybe being a girl would make him happy.
This was a time when social media was in its infancy and online influencers were not prevalent. However, Airiel remembers being impressed by a certain television show about transsexuals who were modifying their bodies to appear like the opposite sex.
Airiel moved around quite a bit and says he saw numerous doctors - including psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. The mental health professionals “did not look at his real problems.” Without many questions being asked, it was in San Francisco where he was first prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones between the ages of 15 and 16 in 2005. He said his puberty was completely halted, that “it was like arrested development.” He would continue taking hormones off and on for the next 18 years.
Airiel was an early transitioner among his peers in the mid 2000’s, during the “transgender wave” as he described it. The online transgender community was new, yet Airiel found groups of people who confirmed and supported what he was going through.
Ten years ago, in 2014, he decided to take a drastic step further and have genital reassignment surgery. Doctors in another country performed a vaginoplasty on Airiel, which, he says, “does not work.” Sadly, he said that it is “too late to sue” these doctors for not being upfront about the procedure’s efficacy because of the statute of limitations.
One and a half years after his surgery, Airiel was forced to admit that the drugs and surgery were a mistake and that the happiness he thought he’d have wasn’t realized. When he was turning 34, over a year ago, he knew he would never get back what he had and that he’ll never have what he thought he wanted: “I decided to stop running from my past.”
Airiel then began the process of detransitioning. He says “to be androgynous” must be his goal now.
Last month, Airiel was one of six inspirational participants at a Detransitioner Panel Discussion entitled “The Next Chapter-Moving Forward with Insights and Inspiration” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This event was one of three presented by Partners For Ethical Care this year. You can watch the event here.
The six detransitioners on the panel were Soren Aldaco, Laura Becker, Chloe Cole, Nicolas Blooms, Kevin Jones and Airiel Salvatore. The objective was to help people understand the harms of gender-affirming care. Sponsors of the event included Parents Patrol, The Wellness Way, New Mexico Freedoms Alliance, Parents Matter Coalition, Illinois Family Institute, and Awake Illinois.
During the panel discussion, Airiel heralded that “the trans identity is fundamentally a rejection of self and reality. There is no such thing as a trans child.”
European studies have shown that most minor children who present with body dysmorphia or dysphoria tend to grow out of it. Airiel told the New York Post earlier this year concerning those studies: “That totally comports with my experience, given what I observed among a lot of my transgender friends.”
In terms of what is happening around the gender issue in the U.S., Airiel says, “I do think we’re at the start of a pendulum swing back. Until recently, stating biological reality could straight up get you canceled.”
“But now I think people are coming around to recognizing the lunacy. We’re going to look back on this period with complete fascination about the human psychology at play.”
“It just sucks that so many people had to suffer.”
When asked what he would have told his younger self about gender dysphoria. He responded “to look inward . . . to learn about myself.”
On how we can better serve the younger generations and keep them from the pain that he and others have suffered, he said, “We should do our best to teach them. We need to tell the right stories – the ones not being told. We need more truth.”
Airiel currently lives and works in the Seattle area where, like his search for his true self, he has moved out of a crowded confused city into a new neighborhood where he says “it feels like you can walk between the trees.” He is rebuilding his life, “trying to see myself in a realistic way while building an online presence to be a positive force in the world.”
Many thanks to Airiel Salvatore for his time and his enormous courage in sharing his experiences to help others find reality.