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Noah Collins and transgender people

Noah Collins is an American ex-transgender activist. Collins currently identifies as a Catholic “certified detroon man.”

Collins has used a number of names and handles:

  • Sydney Collins
  • sydney_speaks
  • charcuterieboard222
  • noahcollins1913
  • 40daysofrain
  • “the woke chud”

Background

Noah Stuart Collins was born in April 2002. Collins’ family moved to Austin, Texas, and Collins graduated from Vandegrift High School. Collins got involved in toxic online communities as an adolescent. In a profile for a scholarship program at University of Texas at Austin, Collins wrote:

“My childhood could best be described as frenetic. I was an obsessive kid, constantly ricocheting between strange hobbies. I grew a deep love for the sciences, especially astronomy; my second grade teacher commented that I always seemed to be lost in my head. My dreamy world was rocked however, with a previously unforeseen move to Austin, Texas. For nearly the entire summer I stayed in our new home, practicing and working to solve Rubik’s cubes faster and faster. In this womb-like state, I gained an interest in politics, and with it a newfound interest in people. […] As I progressed through high school, my interest in politics expanded to history, philosophy, and psychology. And yet, my love of science remained. This led me to join robotics as a junior, and the next year start a new team of my own within our organization.”

While at UT Austin, Collins was involved in progressive causes, including efforts to unionize a local Starbucks where Collins worked and participation in protests related to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Collins earned a bachelor’s degree in 2026.

Noah Collins made a gender transition as an adult in 2020, including hormones for about 4.5 years. In a deleted reddit post, Collins wrote: “I worked at Starbucks for over a year in order to get Facial Feminization Surgery [with Toby Mayer in 2021] when I could have spent that time getting better grades and/or focusing on my career. FFS made my life better when I was trans-identifying, definitely. But now it just means I don’t look as naturally masculine as I used to (though I easily pass as male after cutting my hair and changing my clothing).”

Collins made additional gender changes in late 2024, writing in December: “a couple of months ago. “I had my first major manic episode and landed in the hospital — I found out I have bipolar disorder and since I started the lithium I’ve been trying to get serious about my future.”

Ex-trans activism

Much of Collins’ writings on trans topics are riddled with jargon from toxic online communities where self-hating trans people congregate.

Collins received significant attention online after posting a TikTok video about making additional gender changes. That post was later deleted.

In a since-deleted reddit post, Collins expressed ambivalence a couple of months after making additional gender changes:

“I’ve been detransitioned for a couple of months now and it’s honestly depressing how quickly I undid all the work of my transition. Due to my frame/height, once I changed clothes and cut my hair I easily passed as male again despite FFS. This makes me feel like I was delusional about passing at any point. I felt confident with my appearance by a couple of years into my transition, but looking back it’s all just cringe. Everyone could tell I was trans and was just being nice I think.

Even still, I’m struggling with thoughts of wanting to retransition. For a while it did make me feel confident about myself. I miss my long hair and women’s clothing. I miss the light euphoria from being gendered female. But I’ve seen what 4.5 years of HRT and FFS can do for me, and it’s not that much. I’m disillusioned with everything and don’t know if my dysphoria was ever real. I’m not sure if what I’m feeling now is dysphoria. I don’t even know how I identify. My birth name and my femme name both feel wrong. I don’t think retransitioning would help.”

Collins is also an “autogynephilia” activist. On May 23, 2025, Collins posted: “There is a pipeline in place where men (and teenagers, like I was) with AGP end up in trans reddit communities that tell them their paraphilia is actually evidence of a suppressed cross-gender identity. I, and thousands of other chronically online teenagers, fell down that rabbit hole. What I’d like to do is prevent others from falling down the rabbit hole.”

On April 19, 2026, anti-trans group Partners for Ethical Care held an event titled “After the Gender Experiment: Detransitioners Speak.” Panels were moderated by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger and Martha Shoultz and included Collins and 11 other ex-trans panelists.

References

Akaaboune, Sarah (May 6, 2024). Student Journalists Covering the Campus Protests at UCLA, UT Austin, CCNY Are Writing History. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/student-journalists-campus-protests

Severson, Morgan (March 29, 2022). West Campus Starbucks announces plans to unionize, gains support of local leaders. The Daily Texan https://thedailytexan.com/2022/03/29/west-campus-starbucks-announces-plans-to-unionize-gains-support-of-local-leaders/

Texas Exes (~2021). Sydney Collins. https://www.texasexes.org/scholarships/forty-acres-scholars-program/meet-scholars/2024/sydney-collins [archive]

Leander ISD (October 9, 2019). College Board Names National Merit Commended Students, Hispanic Scholars. https://news.leanderisd.org/college-board-names-national-merit-commended-students-hispanic-scholars/

Selected writing by Collins

sydney-speaks (May 23, 2025). The demonization of AGP is harmful and needs to stop. reddit r/detrans https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/comments/1ktb0dt/the_demonization_of_agp_is_harmful_and_needs_to/ [archive]

Media

Transition Justice / Partners for Ethical Care (May 25, 2026). After The Gender Experiment: Detransitioners Speak (Full Event). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2HE8C8Mgk

The Buck Angel Podcast with Buck Angel and Noah (July 8, 2025). “I Should Have Never Transitioned.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtFZaPC3jPk

YouTube / noahcollins1913 (July 2025). Explaining Pseudodysphoria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdNd2PN5Sc&pp=0gcJCRUKAYcqIYzv

YouTube / noahcollins1913 (July 2025). Truth nukes about living as a trans woman! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV5W0KBZYws

YouTube / noahcollins1913 (June 9, 2025). Do I regret my transition? (YES). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUhcXc4u_Q [deleted]

YouTube / noahcollins1913 (June 9, 2025). The role of God in my detransition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFPLw-ol9U [deleted]

YouTube / noahcollins1913 (June 9, 2025). Why I transitioned and detransitioned (Male to Female to Male). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFqyW56P6-g [deleted]

YouTube / noahcollins1913 (June 9, 2025). What is gender ideology? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFXGHECwpvk [deleted]

TikTok / sydney_speaks (2025). [detransition announcement] https://www.tiktok.com/@sydney_speaks/video/7530396309140802846

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