Sure, detransition is real. The vast majority of people who detransition do so because of trans antagonism, not because they were pressured into transitioning in the first place. Most of the detransitioners I know are fully supportive of the trans community. Many of them even plan on transitioning again later in life.
[Text ID: a chart that shows a list of de-transition reasons, and the percentage of people who de-tranquitioned ebcause of them.
“Lisen to detransiotioners” okay you first???
Reasons to de-transition: % of those who had even de-transitioned
Preassure from a parent: 36% Transitioning was too hard for them: 33% They faced too much harrasment or discrimination as a transgender person: 31% They had trouble getting a job: 29% Preassure from other family members: 26% Preassure from a spouce or partner: 18% Preassure from an employer: 17% Preassure from friends: 13% Preassure from a mental health professional: 5% Preassure from a religious counselor: 5% They realized that gender transition was not for them: 5% Initial transition did not reflect the complexity of their gender identity (write-in response): 4%
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I’ve seen some people in the notes asking for a source and a quick google search has let me to believe this chart is based on this article
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I’m sure someone else has already written this, but another important factor is that if you read some of the excerpts that people wrote, a lot of them are clearly re-transitioning as well.
They’ll cite having to go home to visit family, at which point they’ll butch up, or studying in a hostile country, or not being able to access hormones in the moment, etc.
Not to mention this one: “I enjoy having the ability to go back and forth between genders.” - I think the amount of people who have had this experience or would have this experience if they had the opportunity, is higher than we think and should be encouraged.
Whether it’s because they literally couldn’t access medical support, because it was a time/place where you weren’t allowed to be trans and gay, had to stay with an unsupportive family for awhile, or needed employment, or any of the other many reasons, it’s clear that a lot of people aren’t being pushed out of transitioning for good, but are simply waiting/have waited until they can/could get the support they need/ed.
And I think that’s important. Transitioning isn’t a straight line from one gender to another gender, and that’s something that simplistic narratives about transness fail to recognise. This is a much more accurate depiction of what it looks like and, ironically, it’s while studying detransitioners. We’re doing this in whatever way we need to for our own well-being and safety.
The language around detransitioning is incredibly toxic and flawed, not only because it ignores the reality of why most people detransition, but also because it doesn’t acknowledge how the words “transition/detransition” don’t properly encompass the complexity of living as a trans person in this world
and I kind of think that’s heartening? we are, as always, more complicated, more able to to have agency over our experiences, more willing to survive with the hand we’re dealt, than transphobic talking points could ever understand - but wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a world where that one testimony “I enjoy having the ability to go back and forth between genders,” were the dominant reality?
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This is why that whole terf shit that’s like “if trans people were real then why are hundreds of people detransitioning” and it’s like you bitch you’re the reason. People like you are literally the reason why and you know that because that’s literally your goal. You literally want to force people to detransition. You can’t go around stabbing people in the back and then claim that they’re not really bleeding. /end ID].