‘I Lived in Hell for the Past 10 Years’: Navy SEAL Veteran Detransitions After Decade Living as a Woman

‘I Lived in Hell for the Past 10 Years’: Navy SEAL Veteran Detransitions After Decade Living as a Woman
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Navy SEAL combat veteran Chris Beck, 56, made headlines in 2013 when he announced—after serving 20 years in the military—that he was a woman in a man’s body. He had hormone therapy and expensive gender reassignment surgery and went by “Kristin” for years before having a major realization: he'd been had.

Beck now claims that a VA psychologist, in a one-hour therapy session, convinced him he was transgender by luring him into a lucrative book deal. He says his past identity is still being used for indoctrination and warns children and parents of “trans-washing”—the promotion of “trans identities” on still-impressionable minds, coercing kids into making permanent, life-changing decisions against their best interests.