California Teen Tried to Escape Macho Mexican Culture through Medical Transition

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a series on individuals who have “detransitioned” in the wake of gender-related medical interventions. Read the first four installments here.

Growing up in a Mexican family in Southern California, Abel Garcia, a 26-year-old male detransitioner, never quite lived up to his culture’s idea of what a man should be.