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An "all inclusive feminist" shared an article with me, to educate me about detransitioners. I read it when it came out last December, but let's take a look, shall we? https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/media-s-detransition-narrative-fueling-misconceptions-trans-advocates-say-n1102686
It starts by suggesting that major media outlets are exaggerating the number and significance of detransitioners, "fueling misconceptions about the gender transition process."
"“The media are conjuring up a panic about trans lives." says Lui Asquith, who works for Mermaids:
"“The media are conjuring up a panic about trans lives." says Lui Asquith, who works for Mermaids:
More: "The information that does exist appears to corroborate Asquith’s claim. In a 2015 survey of nearly 28,000 people . . . "
Ooh, ooh! I know this survey! Hold on, I've got a whole thread about it: https://twitter.com/JuliaMasonMD1/status/1221121385176584192
Ooh, ooh! I know this survey! Hold on, I've got a whole thread about it: https://twitter.com/JuliaMasonMD1/status/1221121385176584192
An online survey that used a prize drawing
to recruit participants from trans and queer spaces is highly unlikely to get accurate information about the numbers of detransitioners or the reasons why they stopped medical treatment.
(This survey found an 8% detransition rate.)
to recruit participants from trans and queer spaces is highly unlikely to get accurate information about the numbers of detransitioners or the reasons why they stopped medical treatment. (This survey found an 8% detransition rate.)
Actual research on detransitioners is just now getting started. To find out who has changed their mind about medical transition, you need to seek them out, and you're not going to find them in
clinics or 
websites.
Maybe check out https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/
clinics or websites.Maybe check out https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/
More: "The results of a 50-year survey published in 2010 of a cohort of 767 transgender people in Sweden found that about 2 percent of participants expressed regret after undergoing gender-affirming surgery."
Yes, I'm familiar with this one as well-here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262734734_An_Analysis_of_All_Applications_for_Sex_Reassignment_Surgery_in_Sweden_1960-2010_Prevalence_Incidence_and_Regrets
Yes, I'm familiar with this one as well-here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262734734_An_Analysis_of_All_Applications_for_Sex_Reassignment_Surgery_in_Sweden_1960-2010_Prevalence_Incidence_and_Regrets
This report is from the Karolinska Institute, which performs full surgical transition on more than 96% of their patients. (Gatekeeping is not their thing.) They defined detransition as only those patients who formally applied for a reversal.
Relevant:
Relevant:
Next they reference "The Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria Study (1972-2015): Trends in Prevalence, Treatment, and Regrets. (J Sex Med. 2018 Apr;15(4):582-590"
This paper claims a 0.5% rate of regret, but define this as only the patients who make an app't to discuss regret.
This paper claims a 0.5% rate of regret, but define this as only the patients who make an app't to discuss regret.
Another startling thing about this Dutch Cohort Study is that they have more than a third of their total cohort somehow mysteriously "lost to follow up."
This in a small country with socialized medicine and one main gender clinic. And a cohort with more than 75% gonadectomy.
This in a small country with socialized medicine and one main gender clinic. And a cohort with more than 75% gonadectomy.
I've spoken with many detransitioners, in person and online. None of them mentioned "outside transphobia" as the impetus for their detransition.
Very few have summoned the courage to return to the gender clinic which mistreated them.
Very few have summoned the courage to return to the gender clinic which mistreated them.
Many seem to blame themselves for their misdiagnoses and medical misadventure, because all of them were quite sure they were trans and they met the clinical criteria.
I do not.
I blame my colleagues, who are caught up in another medical fad. We are the adults, or we should be.
I do not.
I blame my colleagues, who are caught up in another medical fad. We are the adults, or we should be.
