Mina Caputo recently shared details about her decision to detransition during an interview with Buck Angel. She mentioned the ill effects of hormone therapy on her well-being and libido.
The ‘Life of Agony’ singer, who was named Keith at birth, said, “Just the other day I released to my fans, I really wanted to talk about the elephant in the room and that’s me not being on hormones anymore. And I was in limbo.”
“I was in limbo for these six, seven years, because as I started becoming more and more of my divine male self, my body changing, my facial hair, everything changing, my psychological, my spiritual, my intellectual, my emotional, everything really changed and I really went back to a very clear self, a clarity I’ve never even experienced before,” she explained.
The vocalist addressed the negative effects of her transitioning process, noting, “’Cause I didn’t do any antidepressant. I’m not on any drugs. I smoke pot. I do mushrooms once in a while. But I do no alcohol. I’m on no pharmaceutical drugs. Actually, the hormone therapy was really doing such a disservice to my nature that I knew for years that I was fighting the nature codes. You can’t fight the nature codes. And every day it just got worse — the rashes, the migraine headaches. My libido was robbed from me. I’m a very sensual, sexual person — I always was. My libido was stripped from me. I had no fun.”
“I was always depressed. Maybe I’m mislabeling it, but I felt more of a gender anxiety and depression while being on hormone therapy. I thought I was doing myself a service, man, but after all the years, I was torturing myself. And then to protect all these ideologies that I had about myself being trans and being a non-gender-conforming child, which I’ll always be… But there’s more of a clarity now. I’m walking in a more healed version of myself.”
In November last year, Caputo, who started identifying as Mina in 2008 and came out as transgender in 2011, announced that her gender dysphoria ‘has been cured’ and that she would continue living as a male. She mentioned plans to change her name back to Keith after fully detransitioning in 2025.
Mina is currently touring with Life of Agony on their ‘Up Close & Unplugged’ European tour, which started in December 2024. Their next concert is scheduled in Belfast, UK, on February 22.
