#detransition

[back-on-my-bullsh-again]

I hate that because I went off of T to get pregnant I'm considered "detransitioned". No, I didn't detransition. I'm still a man. I am just a man who needed my body to start producing it's own estrogen again so it could support a growing fetus. Nothing has changed. I'm still trans.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Conservatives Are Now Blaming Science For Low Trans Regret Rates

A new study was published showing that transgender people who opt for top surgery have very little regret. Conservatives are predictably out

The study itself is titled, “Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender-Affirming Mastectomy,” and sought to study the rate of regret and satisfaction after 2 years or more following gender affirming top surgery. The study’s results were stunning - in 139 surgery patients, the median regret score was 0/100 and the median satisfaction score was 5/5 with similar means as well. In other words… regret was virtually nonexistent in the study among post-op transgender people. In fact, the regret was so low that many statistical techniques would not even work due to the uniformity of the numbers: In this cross-sectional survey study of participants who underwent gender-affirming mastectomy 2.0 to 23.6 years ago, respondents had a high level of satisfaction with their decision and low rates of decisional regret. The median Satisfaction With Decision score was 5 on a 5-point scale, and the median decisional regret score was 0 on a 100-point scale. This extremely low level of regret and dissatisfaction and lack of variance in scores impeded the ability to determine meaningful associations among these results, clinical outcomes, and demographic information. The numbers are in line with many other studies on satisfaction among transgender people. Detransition rates, for instance, have been pegged at somewhere between 1-3%, with transgender youth seeing very low detransition rates. Surgery regret is in line with at least 27 other studies that show a pooled regret rate of around 1% - compare this to regret rates from things like knee surgery, which can be as high as 30%. Gender affirming care appears to be extremely well tolerated with very low instances of regret when compared to other medically necessary care.

[...]

The intense conservative backlash, to the point of disputing reputable scientific journals, likely stems from the fact that reduced regret rates weaken a central narrative these figures have championed in legal and legislative spaces. Over the past three years, anti-trans entities have showcased political detransitioners, reminiscent of the ex-gay campaigns from the 1990s and 2000s, to argue that regrets over gender transition and detransition are widespread. Some have even asserted detransition rates of up to 80%, a claim that has been broadly debunked. Yet, research consistently struggles to find substantial evidence supporting this narrative. The rarity of detransition and regret is underscored by Florida's inability to enlist a single resident to bear witness against a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on gender-affirming care.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

The Tiny Percentage of Trans People Who “Detransition” Largely Do So Because of Transphobia: Report

A new survey from Advocates for Trans Equality surveyed more than 92,000 trans Americans ages 16 and older.

"The largest-ever survey of trans Americans reaffirms what the trans community has been saying for ages: trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of doubts about gender or transition."

...

"“Social and structural explanations dominated the reasons why respondents reported going back to living in their sex assigned at birth,” the report reads. “[...] Only 4% of people who went back to living in their sex assigned at birth for a while cited that their reason was because they realized that gender transition was not for them. When considering all respondents who had transitioned, this number equates to only 0.36%.”

Also not surprisingly, the survey found that respondents who had socially or medically transitioned were more likely to report that they were in good health (67% vs. 61% for social transition and 70% vs. 58% for medical transition, respectively). Nearly all respondents who were receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy (98%) or who had received gender-affirming surgery (97%) reported increased life satisfaction."

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

There's so many detransitioners now because the transgender identity is a product of social contagion. It's a trend and a very dangerous one at that.

That's why you're gonna see a whole lot of graphs like this. This is 18-to-24 year olds who identify as transgender or non-binary. You're gonna see an uptick up to 2022 and then it's downhill from there.

Here's another graph showing students that don't identify as male or female. Around 2020, this becomes super popular, uptick all the way through 2022 to 2023, where you see a massive downtrend.

If you're seeing a ton of your trans friends detransition right now, it's because they were manipulated by a super-dangerous social trend that could have left many of them with irreversible damage and has left many of them with irreversible damage.

I truly think we're gonna look back on this time in human history with a whole different set of eyes and a whole bunch of regret for what people were put through in the name of the transgender movement.

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They act like we forgot that a decade ago Tumblr was already talking about "transtrenders" at around the same time girls were self-diagnosing with "Dissociative Identity Disorder," rambling about their "head mates" and "systems," and screaming at anyone who didn't believe that their changes in mood throughout the day weren't discrete personalities.

We knew what it was back then, and we still know what it is today.

[butchpeace]

On Hurting Trans Women

How do you measure pain?

Great article by Kitty Robinson about whose pain matters, and whose doesn’t, in the “queer” community.

[trans-ideology]

[unrespectability]

a question for any dysphoric/detransitioned women on here, if you are comfortable answering; when you were actively pursuing transition, or were at any point entertaining the thought of it, were your (serious or hypothetical) "transition goals" mostly embodied by:

- males OR

- "sufficiently" transitioned transmasc females;

OR were they less so defined by the body you wish you Had, and more so by the body you wish you Didn't have, with the "escape route" being left vaguer and ultimately less relevant? ty!!

[no-i-can-not-shut-up]

I hate when people say “no one is transitioning minors” or “no minors are getting hormones/surgeries/etc”.

Because that’s just not true. I don’t care about the statistics because I fucking lived through it.

I’m from a very blue state, and when I was 15, my close friend (14) announced that they were going on testosterone. In their same grade were three others, two of whom started testosterone their sophomore year of high school and one who was already on it since freshman year. For reference, freshmen are typically 13-14, and sophomores are typically 14-15. From what I know now from keeping in contact with them is that the entirety of their friend group has come out as trans in some way, one in waiting for top surgery and one just now starting hormones at 17.

My friend who was on hormones at 14, a year later went off testosterone and was on estrogen briefly in an attempt to undo some of their transition because they reidentified from trans ftm to nonbinary and the testosterone hadn’t given them any satisfaction in their physical appearance. This friend was on puberty blockers since we were in middle school together, and confessed to me that they didn’t want to go off them because they were scared of looking their age, because they’d looked like a child for so long. At 16, they had gotten top surgery.

All this to say, it happens. And I’m not putting this out here to get all preachy about “look at these poor misguided kids” or, “kill the evil transes”, I literally just cannot stand letting that false narrative of “no minors medically transition” go around, I’ve been OCD spiraling about it all week because my dysphoria is acting up again and that makes me hyperfixate on my transition and detransition.

That’s all.