{"id":901191,"date":"2026-09-19T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:16:11","slug":"love-hip-hop-star-d-smith-detransitioning-after-12-years-living-as-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901191\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love & Hip Hop’ Star D. Smith Detransitioning After 12 Years Living As a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Love & Hip Hop’ Star D. Smith
\n Ending 12-Year Life as a Trans Woman
\n … Has No Regrets<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n September 18, 2026
\n 5:15 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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“Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” alum D. Smith<\/a> says he’s detransitioning after living publicly as a transgender woman for 12 years … and will now present as a man and use he\/him pronouns.<\/p>\n

The Grammy-nominated producer announced the change Thursday on Instagram, saying the decision has been taking shape over the past several months.<\/p>\n

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Smith says those years were not a mistake and aren’t something he’s trying to erase … writing, “Living my life as a woman for 12 years showed me the man that I wanted to become.”<\/p>\n

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He also stressed his love and respect for the transgender community remain unchanged … and says everyone deserves the freedom to become themselves.<\/p>\n

Smith added there’s much more to his journey than he could fit into one statement, and plans to share the full story when the time is right.<\/p>\n

He publicly came out as transgender in 2014 and joined “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” two years later … becoming the show’s first openly transgender cast member.<\/p>\n

The two-time Grammy nominee has worked on music with artists including Katy Perry<\/a>, Lil Wayne<\/a>, and CeeLo Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Love & Hip Hop’ Star D. Smith Ending 12-Year Life as a Trans Woman … Has No Regrets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[879,49,48,75,12891,44,12892],"class_list":["post-901191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-news","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}