The Bridge

"There are so many ways to solve a single problem, and as soon as you realize that, I think it gives you more freedom than any physical intervention ever will, because your mindset is the lens you view life through." - Soren AldacoTune in for another episode of The Bridge's Detransitioner Interview Series, in which your host, Maddie Durbin, a detransitioned woman, interviews other detransitioners....

In this episode of The Bridge, your host Maddie, a detransitioned woman, interviews a fellow detransitioned woman, Victoria Santiago. Victoria tells her story of identifying as and living as a "trans man" from age 19 onwards, when she began taking testosterone, followed by electing for a double mastectomy at age 21. Victoria shares great insight into healing from addictions and finding l...

In this installment of The Bridge, your host Maddie Durbin, a detransitioned woman, interviews Sierra aka Exulsanic, also a detransitioned woman. Sierra began identifying as "transmasculine" at age 22, in college, as a gender studies major. Sierra shares her story of how her natural discomfort with herself combined with the influence of gender ideology convinced her that she was meant to...

Tune in for the first interview of The Bridge's Detransitioner Interview Series, in which your host, Maddie Durbin, a detransitioned woman, interviews other detransitioners. This interview is with Faith, a Canadian detransitioned woman and advocate. Faith shares her story of how her mental health issues as a teenager were misconstrued as gender-related, and she was pushed towards medicalizatio...

After a many-month haitus, your host, Maddie Durbin, is back on The Bridge. A lot has changed since I started this platform and I've surely grown a lot as a person, but I am still here, and committed to sharing stories that bring us closer to a mutually-agreed-upon truth. In this episode, I talk about where I've been for the past six months, and introduce a new detransitioner interview ser...

In Episode 7 of the Bridge, your host Maddie reflects on where life has taken her since detransitioning and beginning to share her story online. Although I have lost nearly all of my former friends in the LGBTQ community, I have gained a deeper love for self, faith in God, greater purpose in life, groundededness in reality, reconnection with family, and gratitude for life. And more. So I wouldn’t...

In episode 5 of The Bridge, your host, Maddie Durbin, interviews guest Mage Fisher, a 24-year-old detrans woman, artist, and writer in recovery. Mage began identifying as a trans man at age 15 and started hormones at 16, whilst struggling with the modern challenges of being a teenager including substance use and mental health. Mage progressed to get top surgery at age 18 and a hysterectomy at 19....

Dear Trans People, You are some of the kindest, wisest people I know. People who are in touch with their soul’s true nature, which is genderless, creative, expressive, and loving. We live in a confusing world which can convolute those beautiful qualities in a person. I am a detransitioner with a message of love. My experience has taught me to be more understanding and less judgmental. Because I ha...

In Episode 3 of The Bridge, host Maddie Durbin sits down with her friend Sophie Zuniga to explore her journey of self-discovery. Despite never meeting in person, Maddie and Sophie lived parallel lives as trans men in Washington, D.C., and have since both detransitioned, having found peace and acceptance for being the women that they are. At 17, Sophie was on her own and working a farm-share when s...

In this second episode of The Bridge, your host, Maddie, opens up further about her personal, spiritual journey of detransition. After living as a transgender man for five years, Maddie shares what it has been like to return to herself as a woman. She reflects on how her work with psychedelic plant medicine has given her a greater perspective on this journey and a deeper acceptance of what it mean...

Welcome to the first episode of The Bridge! In this deeply personal debut, your host, Maddie Durbin, shares her journey from living as a transgender man for five years, to finding deep healing and self-acceptance. Through self-reflection, deep inner work, and the plant medicine of Ayahuasca, she found the strength to detransition and embrace herself fully as a woman. The Bridge is a place for shar...