A prominent Catholic catechumen detransitioner has announced that he’s going back to living and dressing as a woman.
Neeza Powers has been making headlines for several months now. Born a man, he spent years living as a “transgender woman” named Nicole before detransitioning in mid-2025. Shortly thereafter, he found faith, became a Christian, and has been documenting his journey as a new believer in a series of Instagram videos and reels, garnering him hundreds of millions of views and interactions.
These include posts such as “First time going to church,” “Day 13 of being a Christian,” and “Going to a men’s Bible study for the first time.” While some criticized his documentarian approach, they were well received.
In search of a new church home, Neeza documented his visits to multiple congregations, including Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB), Baptist, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and eventually Roman Catholic.
Neeza’s brutal honesty about his struggles to live and act like a man while putting to death his sinful self were insightful and raw. His journey caught some attention and he was booked for big interviews with multiple Christian content creators, including Isabel Brown (who called him “the most effective evangelizer on the internet”) and Lila Rose.
As a result of his newfound fame and interest, he also started a Christian clothing company with his sister and began partnering with the Hallow App.
Neeza ultimately settled on the Roman Catholic Church, where he has been taking OCIA (Order of Christian Initiation of Adults) classes—also known as RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) He has long documented his plans to enter full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, when he will be baptized and receive his confirmation and first Communion.
As our investigation previously noted, however, Neeza Powers’ past history was all made up.
He lied and fabricated nearly every detail of his testimony and transition, purging, privatizing, and deleting much of his social media content (particularly pre-conversion) in order to keep the grift alive. He didn’t transition in his mid-teens, as he frequently attested, but rather when he was nearly 30 years old. In fact, by his own testimony he’s nearly a decade older than he’s claiming to be.
Ultimately, it looks like Neeza couldn’t keep it together.
A month after announcing that he and his live-in girlfriend Charlotte are getting married, Neeza began posting and deleting a series of test videos and images, which were quickly screengrabbed.
First, he shared that he’s been showing up to Mass dressed as a woman, offering it as a public confession.
Within hours he deleted it and changed his caption, taking on a defiant posture and claiming that the only time he ever felt comfortable and safe in church in the last ten months was while looking like a woman.
Neeza had planned to officially enter the Catholic Church on Easter, but his priest delayed and pushed back, telling him he wasn’t ready, which caused Neeza to become depressed and despondent. Some have speculated that the reason for the priest’s refusal may have something to do with his clothes and attitude about his gender dysphoria, leading Neeza to post this now-deleted image.
Neeza shared a confession of sorts, saying that every day for the last nine months he’s prayed that God would make him a woman because he’s been bitterly unhappy and unsatisfied.
“Im not happy with being a man. I’m not. I have tried to fake it this last year and live in the joy of the Lord and done that, but still I’ve wanted more, I’ve wanted my own desires still. I’m not over it.”
Later, again dressed as a woman, Neeza shared a video captioned:
“Everyday of my life I’ve prayed God would make me a woman…sometimes answered prayers looks like opportunities, not magic. He didn’t make me a woman, buy maybe this is my opportunity.”
Neeza released another reel, where he concludes not that God wanted him to give up his identity as a ‘Her,’ but rather God wanted him AS ‘Her’ #her
As a result of his erratic behavior, Hallow has ended their partnership with him.
Furthermore, Neeza las lost nearly 25,000 followers on Instagram alone.
Earlier today, however, he released a video saying that he’s tired of the self-loathing and is coming out again as a transgendered woman.
I don’t know if my priest agrees with how I represent myself in the world now I couldn’t hate myself any longer the self loathing I’ve had for the last eight months has been excruciating and I know you’re thinking that’s just your sin talking but it’s not.
This is me talking and I have a hard time understanding how what I look like and what I wear is a sin in the eyes of God.
I don’t think it is.
I think that me following the greatest commandment to love the Lord with all of your heart is more important.
I think that God looks at the heart why people look at the outward.
I believe in the holy scriptures I believe in the Lord Jesus my heart is better to to serve him without hating myself my heart is better as a partner to Charlotte without hating my existence enforcing an identity on myself and my heart is better to serve my community this way I couldn’t hate myself any longer.
While some may chalk this up as a step back in an ongoing sanctification process, we’re not so sure. In our original exposure article we asked: Why did he do it? Why does he seemingly continue to lie over and over despite his videos seeming to show a realistic portrayal of someone growing in sanctification?
It’s worth noting that Neeza released many videos before his newbie Christianity series, after he had already begun the process of detransitioning. These videos consisted of nature walks and featured him frolicking through the forests while gushing that the water, earth, sun, and stars were transforming his mind and helping him realign his mindset from woman to man.
These videos—all since deleted, though some were archived by others—did not perform well and were hardly seen by anyone.
But his journey as a new Christian? Hundreds of millions of views. Social media clout. Business opportunities. Gushing affection.
Hard not to see the whole thing as naked opportunism.
If we were putting the best construction on things, we would say that throughout the last ten months of his journey, there are three things Neeza failed to do.
1. Neeza never came clean and admitted that he lied about his backstory, testimony, and conversion. Instead, he spent the better part of a year insisting on a narrative and story that isn’t true. Without confession, there is no absolution. There’s no repentance, but rather a massive part of his life that he refused to give up, and therefore had to continually and sinfully feed.
2. He never stopped living with his girlfriend/fiancée Charlotte. Powers eventually had to admit that he lied about key details of their relationship, including how long they were together (they spent years shackin’ up as a ‘lesbian’ couple) and that even after his salvation and while he was in the process of becoming a Roman Catholic, they still lived together.
Rather than cut ties with sinful relationships, he kept them close by, and it’s unclear to what degree, if any, they gave in to those temptations.
3. He never cut his hair or went back to using his real name, which is Thomas Ryan Powers. While there is nothing inherently sinful about a man having long hair, for Neeza, it represented something about his former self that he held on to, despite his protestations to the contrary.
These three ties that he never severed drew him back into his former life and hindered his ability to be truly sanctified and find repentance and freedom.
They are the sun and the thistles that burned up and devoured the farmer’s seeds, ala Matthew 13.
Neeza Powers, for his continued practice of ongoing and unrepentant deception, and now a defiant return to his old life, should be in desperate fear for his soul. We should all be praying for him.
