Life Of Agony vocalist Mina Caputo is transitioning again to being Keith Caputo. Mina Caputo initially got here out as transgender in 2011, and has now posted a 10-plus minute video explaining the choice to “detransition” again to being Keith Caputo. Within the feedback of the video, Life Of Agony bassist Alan Robert supplied phrases of help, writing: “pleased with your journey and your uncooked honesty. At all times right here for you it doesn’t matter what. We ain’t blood however we’re actual household.”
The next is a transcription of the video, offered by Blabbermouth: “Sure. I am off of hormones six, seven years now. And this January 2025, I’m… my surgical procedure has been booked to take away my pretend breasts and I can be lovingly residing in my divine male self. I’ve cured my gender dysphoria. It took a few years, a whole lot of strolling by means of the fireplace, however I rose above my misunderstandings of my soul and my spirit. That is a totally completely different matter and video, so I will not unpack all of that now. I simply wished to share with you guys, as soon as once more, that I’m off hormone remedy six, seven years when A Place The place There’s No Extra Ache was made with Life Of Agony. That was in 2016. And I have been present in a special model of myself and a extra healed model of myself.
“I’ve carried out years of trauma work, plant medication remedy, which the world is not prepared for that dialog. Nevertheless… And I am making this video as a result of lots of people [are] throwing me shade and saying I look ugly and I seem like a person and all that shit. And it is, like, honey lamb, I’m a person. I at all times was a person. You are simply not used to listening to genuine folks converse. You are used to folks spitting lies at you about their id. And all the true transsexuals know what I am speaking about, as a result of they personal their authenticity. They are not about violating girls’s rights or the innocence of kids and all that. And, which by the way in which, which leads me to that… I have been posting onerous about, I am very in opposition to transitioning kids medically and particularly surgically. Hormones are disgusting. I am unable to even start to let you know what number of unintended effects I went by means of and I am unable to consider extra trans folks do not converse concerning the unintended effects of being trans or having gender dysphoria and never speaking about it.
“So, that is my large reveal — that, and I am altering my identify again to Keith. To all of the folks that appear confused and the folks that have thrown me hatred and shade and all these imply feedback, yeah, all through this time I’ve had gender dysphoria for 40-plus, for so long as I can bear in mind. I am gonna be 51. I’ve had it my complete life, and I am very comfortable I by no means had mother and father that made any selections for me as a result of now at 50, nearly 51, I am unable to even discover the dysphoria anymore. And now my flesh swimsuit, my flesh vessel resides in an older model now, ‘trigger I’ve the pretend boobs they usually gotta come out and I gotta reside now in my new genuine self. And that is why what they’re doing at present is disgusting, and I wished to make a little bit jam about it. I am gonna go deeper and deeper and deeper, however not now. I am drained.
“So, that is it. So all of the folks making an attempt to set off me, you’ll be able to’t. I am like a tree — I bend, however I do not break. I do not reside in victimhood, the way in which they educate this world. I do know I am leaping from factor to factor, however that is who I’m. I am making an attempt to maintain it easy, however I am unable to. So let me go.
“I am very pleased with myself. I have been by means of a lot through the years. I would not want gender dysphoria on my worst enemy. It is one of the vital uncomfortable issues I’ve ever been by means of in my life, and I am so comfortable that it is fucking over. And I do not even acknowledge myself anymore. And I want somebody like [popular podcaster] Joe Rogan can come seize me so I can inform my story in depth as a result of I will preserve myself on a present for like three hours and I can I can get it into all of it as a result of I perceive it. I do know what hormones do to the physique. I do know what it did to me. It castrated my soul. Not solely does it castrate you bodily, however mentally, spiritually, emotionally, intellectually.
“Anybody that is gonna disagree with me, that is cool, however I do know you are mendacity as a result of I have been listening to tales for 30-plus years of the nightmares hormone remedy does to folks’s physique.
“See, that is the very first thing — once I first got here out, turned myself inside out, I went to remedy for 3 years, nearly three years, instantly today there is not any extra remedy. You could possibly take your little three-, four-year-old toddler to the clinic and get hormone packages? No matter occurred to remedy? Do not get me began. I obtained lots to unpack. Rather a lot. I am very deep. I am very complicated. Social media won’t ever get any individual like me, this matrix stuffed with, like, plastic folks. I believe they’re already obtained out the factitious wombs and infants popping out as a result of it is, like, I do not even know who persons are anymore. It is so bizarre. It is like nobody can put one and one collectively anymore.
“Anyway, that is why I have been going onerous in opposition to, with the youngsters. Since you change… You’ll be able to’t… After I first got here out, I assumed I used to be gonna be free. Ultimately, you cage your self with that. I do know in my private journey, what as soon as freed me wound up caging me. And now I am altering again once more, however I am a brand new, a extra healed model of who I’m due to what my spirit has put myself by means of. I walked by means of so many fires. A lot adversity I have been by means of in my life, even in my childhood. I by no means even had a baby. I grew up pulling heroin needles out of my father’s legs and arms and hand. And also you surprise why I had such a fucked up, fractured and botched childhood. No surprise why I did not know who I used to be, or I had hassle with my id prior to now. I did not love myself. I did not love the place I got here from. I had holes in my soul. Nobody understands the depth, the ache I’ve endured. So give it some thought earlier than you throw me shade. ‘Trigger I am a sort, beneficiant spirit. I at all times have been. I have been giving to this society for over 30 years whereas all folks do is take from me and take and take and take.
“Anyway, it is turning out to be an nearly 10-minute video. I solely wished to let you know that I am off of hormones. And I will be bodily utterly detransitioned in 2025. I am unable to wait. I really feel so free.
“I do not want being trans on my worst enemy. It is so debilitating, man. I really feel dangerous for the mother and father that do not know any higher, and for the youngsters. I actually do. It is a fucked up world, man. They’re complicated motherfuckers an excessive amount of. It is, like, let your children play. Medication ain’t gonna repair something. Surgical procedure won’t repair. Thank God I by no means did that down there. That wasn’t part of my journey anyway, ‘trigger I obtained a kick out of being a hermaphroditic hybridized entity, ‘trigger that is what I’m. I am all soul. I am spirit. You are taking a look at flesh, however that is simply beams of sunshine touring to place our flesh collectively. We’re all soul, we’re all vitality. And that is what I did. I performed with my vitality as a result of I used to be fairly misplaced. So I built-in the female as a result of she’s at all times been inside. And it is a play on vitality. That is all life is — it is frequency, vitality and vibration. And that is all I did. Simply because I engaged with the female did not ever make me a organic lady — ever. Ever. And I by no means can be. I can have all of the make-up, all of the surgical procedure, I can seem like I popped out of a feminine Sports activities Illustrated journal, and that’ll by no means make me Mom Gaia with the womb.
“I do know the place this vacancy comes from. It is as a result of I’ve womb trauma. I by no means knew my mother. My mother died at 22. Once more, why I grew up so fucked up with no id. I had a loopy, loopy life, man. I do know folks simply assume I am the singer for ‘River Runs Crimson’, however I am not. It will get far more fucking complicated than that. I am far more than a musician. I am far more a poet. I am far more than a painter. I am past my inventive self as properly.
“I hope you actually sat with this and was affected person sufficient. I did not actually imply for this to be a 12-minute video. I simply wished to let you know I am off of hormones. I am getting my surgical procedure in January, and I am unable to fucking wait, man. That is it. And I like you. And thanks for being supportive. Thanks for not being supportive as a result of every part teaches me. And that is what life’s about. Life’s about progress. Life’s about change. Life is about creating change. And I’m one of many best alchemists I do know and manifestors that I do know. And, man, have I been manifesting peace of thoughts like no different and peace of coronary heart and peace of soul.
“That is it. Sorry it took fucking 13 minutes to, uh, get this out.”
