Transgender Ex-Navy SEAL Transitions Back To Being Male: 'I Destroyed My Life'

A special forces veteran who publicly came out as a transgender woman nearly a decade ago is now detransitioning back to a man.

Chris Beck, 56, made the announcement during an interview with music video director Robby Starbuck earlier this month, Fox News reported.

The 20-year U.S. Navy SEALs veteran started dressing like a woman following his retirement from the military in an attempt to "make his body match his identity," ABC News reported in 2013, which was when he began hormone therapy in preparation for sex reassignment surgery.

"No one ever met the real me," Beck, who began to identify himself as a woman named Kristin Beck during his transition, told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview in the same year.

Beck later co-wrote the book "Warrior Princess" with psychologist Anne Speckhard, with the latter noting that Beck had a desire to die honorable "so that he wouldn't have to wrestle anymore with the emotional pain that stemmed from the lack of congruency between his gender identity and body."

"I do not believe a soul has a gender, but my new path is making my soul complete and happy... I hope my journey sheds some light on the human experience and most importantly helps heal the 'socio-religious dogma' of a purely binary gender," the Navy veteran wrote in the introduction to the memoir.

Beck has now warned Americans to "wake up" about what he claimed were the dangers of transgender health services, per Fox News.

"Everything that happened to me for the last 10 years destroyed my life. I destroyed my life. I'm not a victim. I did this to myself, but I had help. I take full responsibility," Beck said in his new interview. "I went on CNN and everything else, and that's why I'm here right now. I'm trying to correct that."

There was allegedly "so much going wrong" in Beck's system at the time he started taking hormones, which he noted were offered after an hour-long meeting at Veterans Affairs.

"I walked into a psychologist's office, [and] in one day I have a letter in my hand saying I was transgender. I was authorized for hormones. I was authorized all this other stuff," Beck claimed, adding that he felt like he was "used," "got propagandized" and "got taken advantage of."

"As soon as [kids] go in and say, 'I'm a tomboy' or 'This makes me feel comfortable,' and then a psychologist says, 'Oh, you're transgender.' And then the next day, you're on hormones – the same hormones they are using for medical castration for pedophiles. Now, they are giving this to healthy 13-year-olds. Does this seem right? This is why I am trying to tell America to wake up," he said.

Beck said he has been off the hormones for about seven years now. He apologized to the American public because "some of that was paid for by the V.A.," the retired soldier claimed.

"This is a billion-dollar industry between psychologists, between surgeries, between hormones, between chemicals, between follow-up treatments. There are thousands of gender clinics popping up all over our country," Beck said.