There's more and more research on detransition, desisting, disidentifying and reidentifying. This is great, but without a discussion on language I think we're going to get ourselves in a pickle. Many people use the term 'desisted' to describe stopping social transition 1/

In medical literature, the term 'desist' almost exclusively means the gender dysphoria has gone. Hence not using the term myself, my GD is very much alive and kicking.

(Three different sources as examples below.)

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I'm concerned we're going to get inaccurate date if we don't have discussions around terminology. For example, a study on detrans asking if someone desisted (meaning did GD desist) would give inflated numbers if answered 'yes' by people using the term to mean social detransition.

I don't have an answer to this at all, I've just noticed the language change between people we're supporting via @DetransAdv and when we speak to clinicians. And it means articles and research is misunderstood. "Is desistance rare?" Yes, if what you mean is does the GD go away.

The answer is no, if what you mean is how many people identify as trans / socially transition.

I don't think we should stop using the language we are comfortable with but discussions around this and some sort of consensus means at least we'd be able to move clinicians and researchers into accurate terminology to describe and categorise our experiences.

(Which is important for good methods, sound science, and an accurate understanding of detrans / desist people's needs).