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'''Detransition''' is the cessation or reversal of a [[transgender]] identification or of [[Transitioning (transgender)|gender transition]], temporarily or permanently, through social, legal, and/or medical means.<ref name="Davies"/> The term is distinct from the concept of 'regret', and the decision may be based on a shift in [[gender identity]], or other reasons, such as health concerns, social pressure, discrimination, [[Social stigma|stigma]],<ref name=":3" /> political beliefs,<ref>{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Max |title=Detransition: Beyond Before And After|publisher=Spinifex Press |page=1-50}}</ref> or religious beliefs.<ref>{{cite AV media |date= |title=Pray Away |type=Documentary |language=English |url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370 |access-date=7 June 2024}}</ref> |
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Some studies use the term '''retransition''' rather than detransition.<ref name=abcnews/> ''Retransition'' is also commonly used to describe the resumption of transition or transgender identity following a detransition.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=MacKinnon |first1=Kinnon Ross |last2=Expósito-Campos |first2=Pablo |last3=Gould |first3=W. Ariel |date=2023-06-14 |title=Detransition needs further understanding, not controversy |journal=BMJ |language=en |volume=381 |pages=e073584 |doi=10.1136/bmj-2022-073584 |issn=1756-1833 |pmid=37315956|pmc=10265220 |doi-access=free }}</ref> |
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'''Detransition''' is the cessation or reversal of a [[transgender]] [[gender identity|identification]] or [[Transitioning (transgender)|gender transition]], whether by social, legal, or medical means. It is estimated that detransitioners range from less than one percent to as many as five percent. |
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The estimated prevalence of detransition varies depending on definitions and methodology, with estimates ranging from 1% to 8%.{{sfn|Hall|Mitchell|Sachdeva|2021|loc="Rates of detransitioning are unknown, with estimates ranging from less than 1% to 8%."}} A 2018 review on the outcomes of gender transition found a large majority of data showing positive outcomes, a few reports of neutral outcomes or null results, and no studies which reported that gender transition causes overall harm.<ref>{{cite web | title = What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being? (online literature review) | website = Cornell University Public Policy Research Portal | date = 2018 | url = https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equality/what-does-the-scholarly-research-say-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/ | access-date = 2023-11-12}}</ref> Although some studies cite a range up to 8%, this combines 3% of survey respondents who had de-transitioned at the time of the survey, along with 5% who had temporarily done so in the past.{{sfn|Hall|Mitchell|Sachdeva| 2021| loc="Rates of detransitioning are unknown, with estimates ranging from less than 1% to 8%."}}<ref name = USTS/> Different methodological limitations afflict studies reporting low and high incidence.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Irwig |first=Michael S |date=September 28, 2022 |title=Detransition Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse People—An Increasing and Increasingly Complex Phenomenon |journal=The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism |language=en |volume=107 |issue=10 |pages=e4261–e4262 |doi=10.1210/clinem/dgac356 |issn=0021-972X |pmc=9516050 |pmid=35678284}}</ref>{{sfn|Gribble|Bewley|Dahlen|2023|p=5}} |
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Direct, formal research of detransition is lacking. Professional interest in the phenomenon has been met with contention. Detransitioners (persons who detransition) have similarly experienced controversy and struggle. |
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Formal studies of detransition have been few in number,<ref name=FewStudies> |
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*"There is a paucity of literature." {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}} |
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*"We urgently need systematic data on this point in order to inform best practice clinical care." {{harvnb|Zucker|2019}}</ref> politically controversial,<ref name=PoliticalControv>"[R]esearch in this field is extremely controversial." {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}</ref> and inconsistent in the way they characterize the phenomenon.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Expósito-Campos |first=Pablo |date=10 January 2021 |title=A Typology of Gender Detransition and Its Implications for Healthcare Providers |journal=Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=270–280 |doi=10.1080/0092623X.2020.1869126 |pmid=33427094 |s2cid=231575978 |quote=The absence of systematic research around detransition has given rise to inconsistencies in its conceptual use and application, adding to the unclarity and confusion.|doi-access=free |hdl=10810/51393 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Professional interest in the phenomenon has been met with contention, and some scholars have argued there is censorship around the topic.<ref name=":2" /> Some ex-detransitioners regret detransitioning and choose to retransition later.<ref name = abcnews>{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/former-detransitioner-fights-anti-transgender-movement-backed/story?id=92597182 | title=Former 'detransitioner' fights anti-transgender movement she once backed | website=[[ABC News]] }}</ref> Some organizations with ties to [[conversion therapy]] have used detransition narratives to push [[Transphobia|transphobic]] rhetoric and legislation.<ref name="Xtra" /> |
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==Background and terminology== |
==Background and terminology== |
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[[Gender transition]], often shortened to just transition, is the process of a transgender person changing their [[gender expression]] and/or [[sex characteristics]] to accord with their internal sense of gender identity.<ref>{{harvnb|''Fenway Health''|2010}}; {{harvnb|''Human Rights Campaign''|n.d.}}</ref> Methods of transition vary from person to person, but the process commonly involves social changes (such as [[Cross-dressing|clothing]], [[personal name]], and [[Preferred gender pronoun|pronouns]]), legal changes (such as changes in [[legal name]] and [[Gender#Legal status|legal gender]]), and medical/physical changes (such as [[transgender hormone therapy|hormone replacement therapy]] and [[gender-affirming surgery]]). |
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''Transition'' is the process of a transgender person changing their [[gender presentation]] and/or [[sex characteristics]] to accord with their internal sense of gender identity.<ref>{{harvnb|Fenway Health|2010}}; {{harvnb|HRC|n.d.}}</ref> Transition commonly involves social changes (such as [[Cross-dressing|clothing]], [[personal name]], and [[Personal pronoun|pronouns]]), legal changes (such as [[legal name]] and [[Gender#Legal_status|legal gender]]), and medical/physical changes (such as [[transgender hormone therapy|hormone replacement therapy]] and [[sex reassignment surgery]]). |
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''Detransition'' (sometimes called ''retransition'') is the process of halting or reverting a transgender identification or gender transition.<ref> |
''Detransition'' (sometimes called ''retransition'') is the process of halting or reverting a transgender identification or gender transition.<ref> |
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*{{"'}}Detransition' refers to reidentification with the gender identity given at birth and a conscious decision to take action to revert to that designation." {{harvnb|Stewart|2018|p=xxiii}}. See also |
*{{"'}}Detransition' refers to reidentification with the gender identity given at birth and a conscious decision to take action to revert to that designation." {{harvnb|Stewart|2018|p=xxiii}}. See also {{harvnb|Graham|2017}}; {{harvnb|Tobia|2018}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}}; {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}; {{harvnb|Turban et al.|2018b}}.</ref> Like transition, detransition is a process rather than a single event, and methods of detransitioning vary and can involve social, legal, and physical changes to one's [[gender expression]], [[Identity (social science)|social identity]], [[identity document]]s.<ref>{{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Graham|2017}}; {{harvnb|Tobia|2018}}</ref> ''Desistance'' is a general term for any cessation,<ref>{{harvnb|''Merriam-Webster''|n.d.}}; {{harvnb|''Collins''|n.d.}}</ref> and it is commonly applied specifically to the cessation of transgender identity or [[gender dysphoria]].<ref>{{harvnb|Steensma et al.|2013}}; {{harvnb|Wallien and Cohen-Kettenis|2008}}</ref> Those who undertake detransition are known as ''detransitioners''.<ref>{{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Graham|2017}}; {{harvnb|Singal|2018}}</ref> Detransition is sometimes associated with ''transition regret'', but regret and detransition do not always coincide.<ref> |
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*"Not everyone who detransitions regrets transitioning in the first place, and, like transitioning, the process of deciding to detransition is a very individual and personal choice." {{harvnb|Yarbrough|2018|p=130}}. See also {{harvnb|Graham|2017}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}.</ref> |
*"Not everyone who detransitions regrets transitioning in the first place, and, like transitioning, the process of deciding to detransition is a very individual and personal choice." {{harvnb|Yarbrough|2018|p=130}}. See also {{harvnb|Graham|2017}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}.</ref> |
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The term ''detransition'' is controversial within the transgender community. According to [[Jack Turban|Turban]] et al., this is because, as with the word ''transition'', it carries an "incorrect implication that gender identity is contingent upon gender affirmation processes". The term has also been conflated with transition regret, and thereby become associated with movements that aim to restrict the access of transgender people to transition-related healthcare.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1-link=Jack Turban|last1=Turban|first1=Jack L.|last2=Loo|first2=Stephanie S.|last3=Almazan|first3=Anthony N.|last4=Keuroghlian|first4=Alex S.|date=June 1, 2021|title=Factors Leading to "Detransition" Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the United States: A Mixed-Methods Analysis|journal=LGBT Health|volume=8|issue=4|pages=273–280|doi=10.1089/lgbt.2020.0437|issn=2325-8292|pmc=8213007|pmid=33794108}}</ref> |
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==Occurrence== |
==Occurrence== |
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Formal studies of detransition have been few in number,<ref name=FewStudies/> of disputed quality and politically controversial.<ref name=PoliticalControv/> Frequency estimates for detransition and desistance vary greatly, with notable differences in terminology and methodology.<ref name="detransitionestimates">Detransition estimates: |
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* "Detransitioning after surgical interventions ... is exceedingly rare. Research has often put the percentage of regret between 1 and 2% ... Detransitioning is actually far more common in the stages before surgery, when people are still exploring their options. 'There are people who take hormones and then decide to go off hormones,' says Randi Ettner, a therapist who has served on the board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. 'That is not uncommon.{{' "}} {{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}} |
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* "There were 15 (5 [female-to-male] and 10 [male-to-female]) regret applications corresponding to a 2.2% regret rate for both sexes. There was a significant decline of regrets over the time period." (Dhejne et al. define "regret" as "application for reversal of the legal gender status among those who were sex reassigned" which "gives the person the right to treatment to reverse the body as much as possible."), "the median time lag until applying for a reversal was 8 years." {{harvnb|Dhejne et al.|2014}}</ref> Detransition is more common in the earlier stages of transition, particularly before surgeries.<ref>"Detransitioning after surgical interventions ... is exceedingly rare....Detransitioning is actually far more common in the stages before surgery, when people are still exploring their options." {{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}}</ref> |
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The share of trans people who detransition is not known with certainty. Studies which give low estimates (which include<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=February 18, 2023|url=https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected|website=publications.aap.org|title=Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=K. R.|last1=MacKinnon|first2=F.|last2=Ashley|first3=H.|last3=Kia|first4=J. S. H.|last4=Lam|title=Preventing transition "regret": An institutional ethnography of gender-affirming medical care assessment practices in Canada|journal=Social Science & Medicine|date=December 1, 2021|issn=0277-9536|pages=114477|volume=291|doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114477|first5=Y.|last5=Krakowsky|first6=L. E.|last6=Ross|pmid=34666278 |s2cid=239035474 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29463477/ | pmid=29463477 | year=2018 | last1=Wiepjes | first1=C. M. | last2=Nota | first2=N. M. | author3=de Blok CJM | last4=Klaver | first4=M. | author5=de Vries ALC | last6=Wensing-Kruger | first6=S. A. | last7=De Jongh | first7=R. T. | last8=Bouman | first8=M. B. | last9=Steensma | first9=T. D. | last10=Cohen-Kettenis | first10=P. | author11=Gooren LJG | author12=Kreukels BPC | last13=Den Heijer | first13=M. | title=The Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria Study (1972-2015): Trends in Prevalence, Treatment, and Regrets | journal=The Journal of Sexual Medicine | volume=15 | issue=4 | pages=582–590 | doi=10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.01.016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | pmc=8099405 | year=2021 | last1=Bustos | first1=V. P. | last2=Bustos | first2=S. S. | last3=Mascaro | first3=A. | last4=Del Corral | first4=G. | last5=Forte | first5=A. J. | last6=Ciudad | first6=P. | last7=Kim | first7=E. A. | last8=Langstein | first8=H. N. | last9=Manrique | first9=O. J. | title=Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence | journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open | volume=9 | issue=3 | pages=e3477 | doi=10.1097/GOX.0000000000003477 | pmid=33968550 }}</ref>) have been criticized for their "serious limitations", such as short follow-up, high or unclear rates of loss to follow up, reliance on individuals returning to secondary care clinics reporting transition regret or seeking reversal procedures, (a study of 100 detransitioners found that only 24% of respondents informed their clinicians that they had detransitioned<ref name=":6"/>), errors, non-replicability, as well as other issues.{{sfn|Gribble|Bewley|Dahlen|2023|p=5}}<ref name=":6" /> Research suggesting higher rates of detransition also has flaws, however, meaning that detransition rates can be under-reported or over-reported.{{sfn|Gribble|Bewley|Dahlen|2023|p=5}} |
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A 2019 [[poster presentation]] examined the records of 3398 patients who attended a UK gender identity clinic between August 2016 and August 2017. Davies and colleagues searched for assessment reports with keywords related to regret or detransition. They identified 16 individuals (0.47%) who expressed regret or had detransitioned. Of those 16, 3 (0.09%) had detransitioned permanently.<ref name="Davies">{{Cite conference|last1=Davies|first1=Skye|first2=Stephen|last2=McIntyre|first3=Craig|last3=Rypma|title=Detransition rates in a national UK Gender Identity Clinic|conference=3rd Biennial EPATH Conference: Inside Matters, On Law, Ethics and Religion|page=118|date=April 2019|url=https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstracts-EPATH2019.pdf#page=139|access-date=May 27, 2021|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521155446/https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstracts-EPATH2019.pdf#page=139|url-status=live}}</ref> 10 (0.29%) had detransitioned temporarily, to later retransition.<ref name="Davies" /> A 2019 clinical assessment found that 9.4% of patients with adolescent-emerging gender dysphoria either ceased wishing to pursue medical interventions or no longer felt that their gender identity was incongruent with their assigned sex at birth within an eighteen-month period.<ref>{{harvnb|Churcher Clarke|Spiliadis|2019}}</ref> A 2021 study examining the case notes of 175 adults discharged from a UK gender identity clinic between September 2017 and August 2018 found that 12 (6.9%) met the researchers' criteria for detransitioning{{Em dash}}that is, they returned to living as their assigned gender. Six individuals were found to have experiences that "overlap" with detransitioners, but were not counted as such for this study due to displaying "gender identity confusion" during treatment.<ref name="Hall 2021">{{harvnb|Hall|Mitchell|Sachdeva|2021}}</ref> |
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Formal studies of detransition have been few in number,<ref> |
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*"There is a paucity of literature." {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}} |
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*"We urgently need systematic data on this point in order to inform best practice clinical care." {{harvnb|Zucker|2019}}</ref> of disputed quality,<ref> |
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*"The research on outcomes post-transition is mixed at best." {{harvnb|Marchiano|2017}}</ref> and politically controversial.<ref> |
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*"[R]esearch in this field is extremely controversial." {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}} |
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*"[A] potentially politically incorrect piece of research carries a risk to the university. Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher, but may involve the university. The posting of unpleasant material on blogs or social media may be detrimental to the reputation of the university." {{harvnb|Weale|2017}}. See also {{harvnb|BBC|2017}}</ref> Frequency estimates for detransition and desistance vary greatly, with notable differences in terminology and methodology.<ref>Detransition estimates: |
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*"Eight percent of respondents to the 2015 [U.S. Transgender] Survey reported detransitioning at some point, that is, returning to living as the gender they were assigned at birth; however, most detransitioned only temporarily, and 62 percent of those who had once detransitioned reported living in their felt gender identity." {{harvnb|Boslaugh|2018|p=43}} |
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*"Detransitioning after surgical interventions ... is exceedingly rare. Research has often put the percentage of regret between 1 and 2% ... Detransitioning is actually far more common in the stages before surgery, when people are still exploring their options. 'There are people who take hormones and then decide to go off hormones,' says Randi Ettner, a therapist who has served on the board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. 'That is not uncommon.'" {{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}} |
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*"A 50-year study out of Sweden found that only 2.2 percent of people who medically transitioned later experienced 'transition regret'" {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}} |
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**"There were 15 (5 [female-to-male] and 10 [male-to-female]) regret applications corresponding to a 2.2% regret rate for both sexes. There was a significant decline of regrets over the time period." (Dhejne et al. define "regret" as "application for reversal of the legal gender status among those who were sex reassigned" which "gives the person the right to treatment to reverse the body as much as possible.") {{harvnb|Dhejne et al.|2014}}</ref><ref>Desistance estimates: |
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*"There is a wealth of replicated research that tells us that 80–95% of children who experience a cross-sex identification in childhood will eventually desist and come to identify with their natal sex as adults." {{harvnb|Marchiano|2017}} |
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*There have, however, been almost a dozen studies looking at the rate of desistance among trans-identified kids [which] James Cantor summarized [as] '[V]ery few trans kids ... transition by the time they are adults'. The exact rate of desistance varied by study, but overall they concluded that about 80% ... identified as their sex at birth.... [T]he most recent study ... found that two-thirds ultimately identified as the gender they were assigned at birth." {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}} |
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*"For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority—anywhere from 65 to 94%—eventually ceased to identify as transgender." {{harvnb|Brooks|2018}} |
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*"Only very few trans- kids still want to transition by the time they are adults. Instead, they generally turn out to be regular gay or lesbian folks. The exact number varies by study, but roughly 60–90% of trans- kids turn out no longer to be trans by adulthood." {{harvnb|Cantor|2016}} </ref> Detransition is more common in the earlier stages of transition, particularly before surgeries.<ref>{{harvnb|Marchiano|2017}}</ref> It is estimated that the number of detransitioners in 2014 range from less than one per cent to as many as five per cent,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2|title=What Is a Woman?|last=Goldberg|first=Michelle|date=2014-07-28|access-date=2019-11-06|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref> but one study suggests it is growing.<ref>"The growing number of detransitioners is a possible indication that there are significant numbers of people who are not satisfied with transition outcomes." {{harvnb|Marchiano|2017}}</ref> |
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Those who undergo [[gender-affirming surgery]] have very low rates of detransition or transition regret. A 2005 Dutch study included 162 adults who received sex reassignment surgery, 126 of whom participated in follow-up assessments one to four years after surgery. Two individuals expressed regret at follow-up, only one of whom said that they would not transition again if given the opportunity. The remaining 124 out of 126 (98%) expressed no regrets about transitioning.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Yolanda L. S.|last2=Goozen|first2=Stephanie H. M. Van|last3=Kuiper|first3=Abraham J.|last4=Cohen-Kettenis|first4=Peggy T.|date=January 2005|title=Sex reassignment: outcomes and predictors of treatment for adolescent and adult transsexuals|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/abs/sex-reassignment-outcomes-and-predictors-of-treatment-for-adolescent-and-adult-transsexuals/D000472406C5F6E1BD4E6A37BC7550A4|journal=Psychological Medicine|language=en|volume=35|issue=1|pages=89–99|doi=10.1017/S0033291704002776|pmid=15842032|s2cid=6032916 |issn=1469-8978|access-date=November 16, 2021|archive-date=November 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116155604/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/abs/sex-reassignment-outcomes-and-predictors-of-treatment-for-adolescent-and-adult-transsexuals/D000472406C5F6E1BD4E6A37BC7550A4|url-status=live}}</ref> A 2021 meta-analysis of 27 studies concluded that "there is an extremely low prevalence of regret in transgender patients after [gender-affirmation surgery]".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bustos |first1=Valeria P. |last2=Bustos |first2=Samyd S. |last3=Mascaro |first3=Andres |last4=Del Corral |first4=Gabriel |last5=Forte |first5=Antonio J. |last6=Ciudad |first6=Pedro |last7=Kim |first7=Esther A. |last8=Langstein |first8=Howard N. |last9=Manrique |first9=Oscar J. |date=March 19, 2021 |title=Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence |journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=e3477 |doi=10.1097/GOX.0000000000003477 |issn=2169-7574 |pmc=8099405 |pmid=33968550}}</ref> In a January 2023 study of 1989 individuals who had undergone sex reassignment surgery, 6 individuals (0.3%) requested a reversal surgery or detransitioned.<ref name="jedrzejewski_20230124">{{Cite journal |last1=Jedrzejewski |first1=Breanna Y. |last2=Marsiglio |first2=Mary |last3=Guerriero |first3=Jess |last4=Penkin |first4=Amy |author5=OHSU Transgender Health Program "Regret and Request for Reversal" workgroup |last6=Berli |first6=Jens |date=January 24, 2023 |title=Regret after Gender Affirming Surgery – A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Multifaceted Patient Experience |journal=Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery |volume=152 |issue=1 |pages=206–214 |doi=10.1097/PRS.0000000000010243 |pmid=36727823 |s2cid=256501398 |doi-access=free }}</ref> |
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A 2008 study of gender dysphoric adolescents found 61% desisted from their transgender identity before reaching the age of 29,<ref>{{harvnb|Stein|2009}}; {{harvnb|Wallien and Cohen-Kettenis|2008}}</ref> and a 2013 study found 63% desisted before age 20.<ref>{{harvnb|Brooks|2018}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Steensma et al.|2013}}</ref> A 2019 clinical assessment found that 9.4% of patients with adolescent-emerging gender dysphoria ceased wishing to pursue medical interventions and/or no longer felt that their gender identity was incongruent with their biological sex within an eighteen-month period.<ref>{{harvnb|Churcher Clarke|Spiliadis|2019}}</ref> |
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Studies of transition regret or detransition in different populations have found different (average or median) elapsed times before these occurred: a 2018 study found 10 years and 10 months on average to regret (but not necessarily detransition) from start of hormonal therapy,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Wiepjes|first1=Chantal M.|last2=Nota|first2=Nienke M.|last3=de Blok|first3=Christel J. M.|last4=Klaver|first4=Maartje|last5=de Vries|first5=Annelou L. C.|last6=Wensing-Kruger|first6=S. Annelijn|last7=de Jongh|first7=Renate T.|last8=Bouman|first8=Mark-Bram|last9=Steensma|first9=Thomas D.|last10=Cohen-Kettenis|first10=Peggy|last11=Gooren|first11=Louis J. G.|date=April 2018|title=The Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria Study (1972-2015): Trends in Prevalence, Treatment, and Regrets|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29463477/|journal=The Journal of Sexual Medicine| volume=15| issue=4| pages=582–590| doi=10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.01.016|issn=1743-6109|pmid=29463477|quote="In addition, in our population the average time to regret was 130 months, so it might be too early to examine regret rates in people who started with HT in the past 10 years."|access-date=June 16, 2021|archive-date=June 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620212554/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29463477/|url-status=live}}</ref> and a 2014 study of those who had surgery found a median lag of 8 years before requesting a reversal of legal gender status.<ref name="detransitionestimates" /> A 2021 UK study found evidence that supports detransitioning occurring on average 4–8 years after transitioning.<ref name="Hall 2021" /> |
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A 2018 survey of [[World Professional Association for Transgender Health|WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health)]] surgeons found that approximately 0.3% of patients who underwent transition-related surgery later requested detransition-related surgical care.<ref>{{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}</ref> The [[National Center for Transgender Equality#U.S. Transgender Survey (2015)|2015 U.S. Transgender Survey]] found that 8% of respondents who had transitioned reported having ever detransitioned, and 62% of that group had later returned to living in a trans gender role.<ref>{{harvnb|Boslaugh|2018|p=43}}; {{harvnb|James|Herman|Rankin|Keisling|2016|p=111}}</ref> A 2003 German study found evidence for an increase in the number of demands for detransition, blaming poor practice on the part of "well-meaning but certainly not unproblematic" clinicians who—contrary to international best practices—assumed that transitioning as quickly as possible should be the only correct course of action.<ref>"In jüngster Zeit gibt es jedoch einige Hinweise für die Zunahme von Rückumwandulungsbegehren und es stellen sich zunehmend Patienten vor, bei denen schondie erste diagnostische Exploration Hinweise auf übergreifende Identitätsstörungen, u. U. auch auf transvestitisch-fetischistische Neigungen, auf unrealistische Erwartungen hin-sichtlich eines „völlig neuen Lebens“, jedoch nicht auf eine gelebte und innerlich fixierteGeschlechtsrollentransposition gibt. In Anbetracht derartiger Verläufe besorgt die zwarwohlmeinende, aber keinesfalls unproblematische Einstellung einiger Behandler, die annehmen, dass das möglichst schnelle Bedienen der vehement vorgetragenen Patienten-wünsche die einzig richtige Vorgehensweise wäre,„da man da sowieso nichts anderes machen kann.“ Dies widerspricht eklatant den Erfahrungen internationaler Gender-Zentren" {{harvnb|Bosinski|2003}}</ref> Surgeon [[Miroslav Djordjevic]] and psychotherapist James Caspian have reported that demand for surgical reversal of the physical effects of medical transition has been on the rise.<ref> |
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*"... his preliminary findings that suggested growing numbers of young people, particularly women, were regretting gender reassignment ... [H]e was first alerted to the issue of gender reassignment reversal in 2014, when a Belgrade doctor told him he had been asked to carry out an unprecedented seven reversals that year." {{harvnb|Weale|2017}} |
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*"[H]e wanted to study people who had swapped gender and then changed their minds after coming across evidence of a growing number of people who regretted having the surgery and finding no research had been done into the subject ... 'I found it very difficult to get people willing to talk openly about the experience of reversing surgery. They said they felt too traumatised to talk about it ...'" {{harvnb|BBC|2017}}</ref> |
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[[Informed consent]] and affirmation of [[self-diagnosis]] (both newer but increasingly employed models for transgender healthcare) have been criticized for failing to meet the needs of those who eventually detransition.<ref>{{harvnb|Graham|2017}}; {{harvnb|Yoo|2018}}</ref> |
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Criticisms have been made regarding the "persistence-desistance" dichotomy as ignoring reasons why a person's gender identity may desist outside of simply being cisgender in the first place. For example, an assertion of a cisgender identity may be treated with validity and as an invalidation of a previously stated transgender identity; however, an assertion of a transgender identity may only be treated with the same validity if it is held throughout one's life. An individual may repress or realize their identity at any point in their life for a variety of reasons; some individuals' gender identities are fluid and/or may change throughout their lifetime, and some individuals whose identities are [[Non-binary gender|non-binary]] are effectively excluded due to a study's assumption of a gender binary.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Temple Newhook|first1=Julia|last2=Pyne|first2=Jake|last3=Winters|first3=Kelley|last4=Feder|first4=Stephen|last5=Holmes|first5=Cindy|last6=Tosh|first6=Jemma|last7=Sinnott|first7=Mari-Lynne|last8=Jamieson|first8=Ally|last9=Pickett|first9=Sarah|date=April 3, 2018|title=A critical commentary on follow-up studies and "desistance" theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390|journal=International Journal of Transgenderism|language=en|volume=19|issue=2|pages=212–224|doi=10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390|s2cid=150338824|issn=1553-2739|quote="Due to such shifting diagnostic categories and inclusion criteria over time, these studies included children who, by current DSM-5 standards, would not likely have been categorized as transgender (i.e., they would not meet the criteria for gender dysphoria) and therefore, it is not surprising that they would not iden- tify as transgender at follow-up. Current criteria require identification with a gender other than what was assigned at birth, which was not a necessity in prior versions of the diagnosis."|access-date=March 26, 2021|archive-date=December 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215203717/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="steensma_2018">{{Cite journal|last=Steensma|first=Thomas|date=2018|title=A critical commentary on "A critical commentary on follow-up studies and "desistence" theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children"|journal=[[International Journal of Transgenderism]]|volume=19|issue=2|pages=225–230|doi=10.1080/15532739.2018.1468292|s2cid=150062632|doi-access=free}}</ref> |
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Motives for detransitioning commonly include financial barriers to transition, social rejection in transition, depression or suicidality due to transition, and discomfort with sexual characteristics developed during transition. Additional motives include concern for lack of data on long-term effects of hormone replacement therapy, concern for loss of fertility, complications from surgery, and changes in gender identity.<ref> |
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*"Six persons clearly ventilated their feelings of regret about the decision; three of them accused their clinician of incompetence. Four others respectively gave as primary reasons: social isolation, disappointing surgical results and a sudden vanishing of the urge to live as a woman." {{harvnb|Kuiper and Cohen-Kettenis|1998}}. See also {{harvnb|Borreli|2017}}; {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}; {{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}}; {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|McFadden|2017}}; {{harvnb|Sarner|2017}}; {{harvnb|Turban et al.|2018a}}.</ref> Some people detransition on a temporary basis, in order to accomplish a particular aim, such as having biologically related children, or until barriers to transition have been resolved or removed.<ref>{{harvnb|Americo|2018}}; {{harvnb|Kanner|2018}}</ref> Transgender elders may also detransition out of concern for whether they can receive adequate or respectful care in later life.<ref>{{harvnb|Witten|2015}}</ref> |
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Reasons for detransitioning vary, and may include health-related concerns, finding that transition did not alleviate [[gender dysphoria]], a negative social environment, and financial concerns.<ref name=":3" /> |
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The [[National Center for Transgender Equality]] conducted a survey which collected responses from individuals who identified as transgender at the time of the survey.<ref name = USTS>{{Cite web |url=https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf |title=The Report of the 2015 US Transgender Survey |date=December 17, 2016}}</ref> The results published in the [[National Center for Transgender Equality#U.S. Transgender Survey|2015 U.S. Transgender Survey]] found that 8% of respondents reported having ever detransitioned; 62% of that group reported transitioning again and were living as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth at the time of the survey.<ref>{{harvnb|Boslaugh|2018|p=43}}; {{harvnb|James|Herman|Rankin|Keisling|2016|pp=111, 292–294}}</ref> About 36% reported having detransitioned due to pressure from parents, 33% because it was too difficult, 31% due to discrimination, 29% due to difficulty getting a job, 26% pressure from family members, 18% pressure from a spouse, and 17% due to pressure from an employer.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Boslaugh |first=Sarah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agVnDwAAQBAJ&q=detransition+harassment&pg=PA43 |title=Transgender Health Issues |date=August 3, 2018 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-5888-8 |pages=43–44 |language=en |ref=none |access-date=June 15, 2021 |archive-date=June 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620144900/https://books.google.com/books?id=agVnDwAAQBAJ&q=detransition+harassment&pg=PA43 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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[[Mike Penner]], a sportswriter for the [[Los Angeles Times]], publicly identified as [[transsexual]] in April 2007 under the name Christine Daniels and wrote of his experience with transition until October 2008, when he resumed his male identity. He committed suicide in November 2009.<ref>{{harvnb|Pieper|2015}}; {{harvnb|Friess|2009}}; {{harvnb|Herman|2011}}</ref> |
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In a 2021 study of 2,242 individuals recruited via community outreach organizations who detransitioned and who continue to identify as transgender or gender diverse, the vast majority said detransition was in part due to external factors, such as pressure from family, sexual assault, and nonaffirming school environments; another highly cited factor was "it was just too hard for me."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Turban|first1=Jack L.|last2=Loo|first2=Stephanie S.|last3=Almazan|first3=Anthony N.|last4=Keuroghlian|first4=Alex S.|date=May 2021|title=Factors Leading to "Detransition" Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the United States: A Mixed-Methods Analysis|journal=LGBT Health|volume=8|issue=4|pages=273–280|doi=10.1089/lgbt.2020.0437|issn=2325-8306|pmid=33794108|pmc=8213007|quote="Because the USTS only surveyed currently TGD-identified people, our study does not offer insights into reasons for detransition in previously TGD-identified people who currently identify as cisgender." "The vast majority of participants reported detransition due at least in part to external factors, such as pressure from family, nonaffirming school environments, and sexual assault." "iIt was just too hard for me" is shown in table 2.}}</ref> Motives for detransitioning commonly include financial barriers to transition, [[social rejection]] in transition, depression or suicidality due to transition, and discomfort with sexual characteristics developed during transition. Additional motives include concern for lack of data on long-term effects of hormone replacement therapy, concern for loss of fertility, complications from surgery, and changes in gender identity.<ref>* "Six persons clearly ventilated their feelings of regret about the decision; three of them accused their clinician of incompetence. Four others respectively gave as primary reasons: social isolation, disappointing surgical results and a sudden vanishing of the urge to live as a woman." {{harvnb|Kuiper and Cohen-Kettenis|1998}}. See also {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}; {{harvnb|Clark-Flory|2015}}; {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|McFadden|2017}}; {{harvnb|Sarner|2017}}; {{harvnb|Turban et al.|2018a}}.</ref> Some people detransition on a temporary basis, in order to accomplish a particular aim, such as having biologically related children, or until barriers to transition have been resolved or removed.<ref>{{harvnb|Americo|2018}}; {{harvnb|Kanner|2018}}</ref> Transgender elders may also detransition out of concern for whether they can receive adequate or respectful care in later life.<ref>{{harvnb|Witten|2015}}</ref> |
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Since 2011, Walt Heyer has written several books on his experience of regret and detransition.<ref>{{harvnb|Heyer|n.d.}}; {{harvnb|Dumas|2015}}</ref> |
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A qualitative study comparing child desisters to persisters (those with persisting gender dysphoria) found that while persisters related their dysphoria primarily to a mismatch between their bodies and their identity, desisters' dysphoria was more likely to be, at least retroactively, related to a desire to fulfill the other gender role.<ref name="Steensma">{{Cite journal|last1=Steensma|first1=Thomas D.|last2=Biemond|first2=Roeline|last3=De Boer|first3=Fijgje|last4=Cohen-Kettenis|first4=Peggy T.|year=2011|title=Desisting and persisting gender dysphoria after childhood: A qualitative follow-up study|journal=Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry|volume=16|issue=4|pages=499–516|doi=10.1177/1359104510378303|pmid=21216800|s2cid=1789558}}</ref> |
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Carey Callahan began speaking openly about her detransition in 2016. Callahan identified as trans for four years. Her employment at a gender clinic led her to seek alternatives to transition. She advocates for detransitioners and gender-nonconforming people while working as a licensed therapist. She was profiled by ''[[The Atlantic]]'' in 2018.<ref>{{harvnb|Pollock|2018}}; {{harvnb|Singal|2018}}; {{harvnb|Graham et al.|2017}}; {{harvnb|Murphy|2018}}; {{harvnb|Graham et al.|2017}}</ref> |
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== Cultural and political impact == |
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Longtime New York performance artist Brian Belovitch (formerly known as Tish Gervais) transitioned in 1972, following social pressure to conform his feminine personality to [[Gender binary|binary gender norms]]. He lived as a trans woman for fifteen years before "retransitioning", as he terms it, in 1987. Belovitch cites his changed views on his own gender identity (referring to himself now as "[[genderqueer]] or [[Gender variance|gender nonconforming]]") for prompting his reversal. He was profiled by ''[[Paper (magazine)|Paper]]'' magazine in 2018; he published his memoir later that year.<ref>{{harvnb|Tobia|2018}}; {{harvnb|Belovitch|2018}}</ref> |
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There are no legal, medical, and psychological guidelines on the topic of detransition.<ref>{{harvnb|Graham|2017}}</ref>{{Clarify|reason=I don't understand what this means, to the point I wonder why a section called "Cultural and political impact" leads with it?|date=May 2023}} The Standards of Care by the [[World Professional Association for Transgender Health]] (WPATH) do not mention detransition,<ref> |
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In March 2019, [[James Shupe]], the first American to win legal recognition of having a nonbinary gender, criticized his transition and publicly re-identified as a man. Shupe had lived as a trans woman for two years and as a nonbinary person for three.<ref>{{harvnb|Showalter|2019}}; {{harvnb|Christian Today|2019}}; {{harvnb|Shupe|2019}}</ref> |
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"There are currently no professional guidelines or resources for providers who encounter patients who experience regret and/or seek detransition." {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}</ref> though 37 WPATH surgeons have expressed a desire for detransition guidelines to be included,<ref> |
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"88% of respondents feel that WPATH SOC 8 should include a chapter on detransition" {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}</ref> and former WPATH president and longtime chair of [[WPATH-SOC|WPATH's Standards of Care]] revision team, [[Eli Coleman]], has listed detransition among the topics that he would like to see included in the eighth edition.<ref> |
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"Miscellaneous suggestions ... detransition." {{harvnb|Coleman|2017}}</ref> |
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Some researchers perceive there to be an atmosphere of censorship around studying the phenomenon.<ref name=":2">{{harvnb|Shute|2017}}; {{harvnb|''BBC''|2017}}; {{harvnb|Borreli|2017}}; {{harvnb|Stein|2009}}; {{harvnb|Veissière|2018}}</ref> Various sides involved in the dispute over detransitioning say they have been harassed and have described each other as threats to [[transgender rights]].<ref name="herzogquote">"This has ignited a contentious debate both in and outside the trans community, with various sides accusing each other of bigotry, harassment, censorship, and damaging the fight for trans rights. It's such a fraught issue that many people I interviewed requested anonymity. (All the names of detransitioners have been changed.) Others refused to speak on the record, afraid of the potential fallout." {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}</ref><ref>""[T]he trans community does our best to pretend that retransitioning never happens ... trans people who have retransitioned are often treated as outcasts, as aberrations or as an embarrassment to our community's goals. They are assumed to be failures, traitors to the cause of trans liberation." {{harvnb|Tobia|2018}}</ref> |
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== Cultural and political impact == |
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Controversy surrounding detransition within trans activism primarily arises from how the subject is framed as a subject of [[moral panic]] in mainstream media and right-wing politics.<ref name="Slothouber">{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/13825577.2020.1730052| title=(De)trans visibility: Moral panic in mainstream media reports on de/Retransition| year=2020| last1=Slothouber| first1=Van| journal=European Journal of English Studies| volume=24| pages=89–99| s2cid=219079388| doi-access=free}}</ref> Detransition has attracted interest from both [[Social conservatism|social conservatives]] on the [[Right-wing politics|political right]] and [[Radical feminism|radical feminists]] on the [[Left-wing politics|political left]]. Activists on the right have been accused of using detransitioners' stories to further their work [[Transphobia|against trans rights]].<ref>{{harvnb|Ford|2018}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}; {{harvnb|Tobia|2018}}</ref> On the left, some radical feminists see detransitioners' experiences as further proof of [[Patriarchy|patriarchal]] enforcement of [[gender roles]] and [[medicalized]] erasure of [[Homosexuality|gays and lesbians]].<ref name="Bowen 2007">{{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}</ref> Other feminists have expressed disagreement with this opinion, referring to those who hold these beliefs as [[TERF|trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERF)]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Parker|first=Charlie|title=JK Rowling compares trans treatment to gay conversion therapy|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-compares-trans-treatment-to-gay-conversion-therapy-t7z3kxnjn|access-date=August 26, 2021|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=August 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826152549/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-compares-trans-treatment-to-gay-conversion-therapy-t7z3kxnjn|url-status=live}}</ref> This attention has elicited in detransitioners mixed feelings of both exploitation and support.<ref name="Bowen 2007" /><ref name=urquhart>{{Cite web|last=Urquhart|first=Evan|date=February 1, 2021|title=An "Ex-Detransitioner" Disavows the Anti-Trans Movement She Helped Spark|url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/detransition-movement-star-ex-gay-explained.html|access-date=August 26, 2021|website=Slate Magazine|language=en|archive-date=September 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901194702/https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/detransition-movement-star-ex-gay-explained.html|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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There is a lack of legal, medical, and psychological guidelines on the topic of detransition<ref>{{harvnb|Graham|2017}}</ref> and a perceived atmosphere of censorship around researching the phenomenon.<ref>{{harvnb|Shute|2017}}; {{harvnb|BBC|2017}}; {{harvnb|Borreli|2017}}; {{harvnb|Stein|2009}}; {{harvnb|Veissière|2018}}</ref> Detransitioners say they have been harassed by activists who view detransition as a political threat to [[Transgender rights movement|trans rights]].<ref> |
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*"'The complexity of our viewpoint is pretty inconvenient to people on all sides of the political spectrum,' Carey says in the film. For her, detransitioning has resulted in the most harassment she has ever faced in her life." {{harvnb|Pollock|2018}} |
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*"This has ignited a contentious debate both in and outside the trans community, with various sides accusing each other of bigotry, harassment, censorship, and damaging the fight for trans rights. It's such a fraught issue that many people I interviewed requested anonymity. (All the names of detransitioners have been changed.) Others refused to speak on the record, afraid of the potential fallout." {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}} |
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*"[Other messages received] were from clinicians and detransitioners, thanking me for presenting a perspective they felt so many were scared to voice." {{harvnb|Veissière|2018}} |
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*""[T]he trans community does our best to pretend that retransitioning never happens ... trans people who have retransitioned are often treated as outcasts, as aberrations or as an embarrassment to our community's goals. They are assumed to be failures, traitors to the cause of trans liberation." {{harvnb|Tobia|2018}} |
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In August 2017, the [[Mazzoni Center]]'s Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, which is an annual meeting of transgender people, advocates, and healthcare providers, canceled two panel discussions on detransition and alternate methods of working with gender dysphoria.<ref>{{harvnb|Rodriguez|2017}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017b}}</ref> The conference organizers said, "When a topic becomes controversial, such as this one has turned on social media, there is a duty to make sure that the debate does not get out of control at the conference itself. After several days of considerations and reviewing feedback, the planning committee voted that the workshops, while valid, cannot be presented at the conference as planned."<ref>{{harvnb|Mazzoni|2017}}</ref> |
In August 2017, the [[Mazzoni Center]]'s [[Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference|Philadelphia Trans Health Conference]], which is an annual meeting of transgender people, advocates, and healthcare providers, canceled two panel discussions on detransition and alternate methods of working with gender dysphoria.<ref>{{harvnb|Rodriguez|2017}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017b}}</ref> The conference organizers said, "When a topic becomes controversial, such as this one has turned on social media, there is a duty to make sure that the debate does not get out of control at the conference itself. After several days of considerations and reviewing feedback, the planning committee voted that the workshops, while valid, cannot be presented at the conference as planned."<ref>{{harvnb|''Mazzoni Center''|2017}}</ref> |
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In September 2017, [[Bath Spa University]] revoked permission for James Caspian, a [[Jungian]] psychotherapist who works with transgender people and is a trustee of the [[Beaumont Trust]], to research regret of gender-reassignment procedures and pursuit of detransition.<ref>{{harvnb|Caspian}}</ref> Caspian alleged the reason for the university's refusal was that it was "a potentially [[Political correctness|politically incorrect]] piece of research, [which] carries a risk to the university. Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher, but may involve the university. The posting of unpleasant material on blogs or social media may be detrimental to the reputation of the university."<ref>{{harvnb|''BBC''|2017}}; {{harvnb|Weale|2017}}; {{harvnb|Hurst|2017}}</ref> The university stated that Caspian's proposal "was not refused because of the subject matter, but rather because of his proposed methodological approach. The university was not satisfied this approach would guarantee the anonymity of his participants or the confidentiality of the data."<ref name="somerset">{{cite web |url=https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-spa-university-james-caspian-2557060 |title=Ex-Bath Spa student James Caspian fails in court fight against university |last=Petherick |first=Sam |date=February 20, 2019 |publisher=[[Somerset Live]] |access-date=May 1, 2020 |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729205448/https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bath-spa-university-james-caspian-2557060 |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 2017, he took the matter to the High Court, which concluded his application for a judicial review was "totally without merit".<ref name="somerset" /> The outcome was also considered by the [[Office of the Independent Adjudicator]] for Higher Education, who determined the university's conclusion was reasonable.<ref name="somerset" /> Caspian appealed to the High Court for judicial review again in 2019; the judge ruled against him, saying, "I entirely accept that there are important issues of freedom of expression. I just do not accept that, on the facts of this particular case, there is an arguable case made out," and adding that the application was too late.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/19/proposal-research-trans-regret-rejected-university-fear-backlash/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/19/proposal-research-trans-regret-rejected-university-fear-backlash/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Proposal to research 'trans regret' rejected by university for fear of backlash, claims psychotherapist |last=Johnson |first=Jamie |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=February 19, 2019 |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=February 19, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Caspian claimed that he was "refused permission for a Judicial Review on points of procedure" and that the judge "was clearly sympathetic to the case but felt that his hands were tied by legal procedure;"<ref name="somerset"/> in February 2021, he appealed to the [[European Court of Human Rights]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/05/psychotherapist-blocked-studying-trans-regret-takes-case-european/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/05/psychotherapist-blocked-studying-trans-regret-takes-case-european/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Psychotherapist blocked from studying 'trans regret' takes case to the European Court |last=Swerling |first=Gabriella |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=February 5, 2021 |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=February 19, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> |
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In September 2017, [[Bath Spa University]] revoked permission for James Caspian, a counselor who specializes in transgender therapy, to research regret of gender-reassignment procedures and pursuit of detransition. Caspian alleged the reason for the university's refusal was that it was "a potentially [[Political correctness|politically incorrect]] piece of research, [which] carries a risk to the university. Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher, but may involve the university. The posting of unpleasant material on blogs or social media may be detrimental to the reputation of the university."<ref>{{harvnb|BBC|2017}}; {{harvnb|Weale|2017}}; {{harvnb|Hurst|2017}}</ref> |
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Many [[ex-gay]] and [[Christian Right]] affiliated organizations also promote programs aiming to discourage transition, promote reversal or desistence of transition, and to change individuals' gender identities. A key characteristic of these organizations are the construction of "transgenderism" as a sin against God or the natural order. In the 1970s, [[Exodus International]] platformed Perry Desmond, an "ex-transsexual" who evangelized throughout the US and supported [[Anita Bryant]]'s [[Save Our Children]] campaign. Another prominent characteristic is ex-transgender testimonials, which depict "the transgender lifestyle" as destructive as opposed to contemplation of God and encourage other transgender people to join them. These organizations portray "gender ideology" and "transgender ideology" as a social contagion threatening to the natural order.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Robinson |first1=Christine M. |last2=Spivey |first2=Sue E. |date=June 19, 2019 |title=Ungodly Genders: Deconstructing Ex-Gay Movement Discourses of "Transgenderism" in the US |journal=Social Sciences |language=en |volume=8 |issue=6 |pages=191 |doi=10.3390/socsci8060191 |issn=2076-0760|doi-access=free }}</ref> |
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WPATH's Standards of Care have offered no mention of detransition,<ref> |
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[[Ky Schevers]], an "ex-detransitioner" whose detransition was prominently profiled by Katie Herzog<ref name="herzogquote"/> and [[The Outline (website)|The Outline]],<ref name="outline">{{cite news |last1=Monroe |first1=Rachel |author-link=Rachel Monroe |title=Detransitioning: a story about discovery |url=https://theoutline.com/post/349/a-story-about-discovery?zd=1&zi=ieqmvy6w |access-date=March 18, 2019 |work=[[The Outline (website)|The Outline]] |date=December 4, 2016 |language=en |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729195521/https://theoutline.com/post/349/a-story-about-discovery?zd=1&zi=ieqmvy6w |url-status=live }}</ref> spoke about her experiences in a community of radical feminist detransitioned women, drawing parallels to the [[ex-gay movement]] and [[conversion therapy]].<ref name=urquhart/> Parallels drawn include suppressing rather than addressing or removing the underlying dysphoria, stating that not only their gender dysphoria but everyone's dysphoria was a result of internalized sexism and trauma, and language from the [[twelve-step program]] being used to describe the desire to transition.<ref name=urquhart/> |
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*"There are currently no professional guidelines or resources for providers who encounter patients who experience regret and/or seek detransition." {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}</ref> though a majority of WPATH surgeons have expressed desire for detransition guidelines to be included,<ref> |
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*"88% of respondents feel that WPATH SOC 8 should include a chapter on detransition" {{harvnb|Danker et al.|2018}}</ref> and former WPATH president and longtime chair of WPATH's SOC revision team, [[Eli Coleman]], has listed detransition among the topics that he would like to see included in the eighth edition.<ref> |
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Schevers noted that during the ''[[Bell v Tavistock]]'' ruling, her lawyer had connections to the right-wing and anti-LGBT-rights organization the [[Alliance Defending Freedom]], which she described as pushing most of the [[Transgender rights in the United States|anti-trans bills in the United States]]. Schevers later created Health Liberation Now! alongside Lee Leveille, who'd also previously been involved in detransition communities that were transphobic, to "give voice to folks who have complicated experiences with transition or detransition, retransition and shifting senses of self that goes beyond a lot of the TERFy areas that people are inevitably getting funnelled into". The group has reported on conversion therapy practices and maintains resources to help identify relationships between clinical conversion therapists and [[Astroturfing|astroturfed]] campaigns led by anti-trans groups.<ref name="Xtra">{{Cite news |last=Falk |first=Misha |date=August 4, 2022 |title=Health Liberation Now! is challenging the way anti-trans groups weaponize detransition narratives |work=Xtra |url=https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/health-liberation-now-detransition-227906 |url-status=live |access-date=September 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804203555/https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/health-liberation-now-detransition-227906 |archive-date=August 4, 2022}}</ref> |
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*"Miscellaneous suggestions ... detransition." {{harvnb|Coleman|2017}}</ref> |
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== Criminalization of gender-affirming care== |
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=== Criminalization of gender-affirming care for minors === |
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In 2021, legislatures in 22 states in the United States introduced bills that would criminalize the provision of [[gender-affirming care]] to transgender minors, {{Citation needed span|forcibly detransitioning those who are unable to or refuse to leave the state. |date=May 2024}} By the end of February 2022, the number had risen to 29. Supporters of these bills often cite concerns about detransition and desistance and claim they wish to protect children. Scientific evidence suggests these bills will cause harm to transgender children as gender-affirming care is often necessary and access to it has consistently shown a positive relationship with mental well-being, and an inability to access gender-affirming care can cause gender dysphoria, which can commonly lead to anxiety, depression and even suicide in transgender children and teens.<ref name="APA-on-healthcare-bans">{{Cite report |url=https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/gender-affirmative-care |title=Criminalizing Gender Affirmative Care with Minors: Suggested Discussion Points With Resources to Oppose Transgender Exclusion Bills |publisher=[[American Psychological Association]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Dodds |first1=Io |last2=Woodward |first2=Alex |date=April 14, 2022 |title=The GOP 'grooming' smear is sparking a new wave of anti-LGBT+ violence |language=en |work=Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republicans-disney-groomer-harassment-lgbt-people-b2058272.html |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> |
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The [[American Medical Association]], [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], and [[American Psychological Association]] have spoken out against the bills and defended the right of minors to transition.<ref name="APA-on-healthcare-bans" /><ref name="Yurcaba">{{Cite web |last1=Yurcaba |first1=Jo |title=Florida medical board votes to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-medical-board-votes-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-mino-rcna54632 |website=[[NBC News]]|date=October 29, 2022 }}</ref><ref name="AMA-on-healthcare-bans">{{Cite report |url=https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-states-stop-interfering-health-care-transgender-children |title=AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children |date=April 26, 2021 |publisher=[[American Medical Association]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="AAP-on-healthcare-bans">{{Cite report |url=https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/12780 |title=Pediatricians say state bills would harm transgender youths |last=Korioth |first=Trisha |date=March 9, 2021 |publisher=[[American Academy of Pediatrics]] News}}</ref> In a letter to the National Governors Association, the American Medical Association warned that anti-trans healthcare bans will lead to greater rates of depression and suicide for transgender youth and described bills banning gender-affirming care as "a dangerous intrusion into the practice of medicine".<ref name="AMA-on-healthcare-bans" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Milton |first=Josh |date=May 10, 2022 |title=Trans teen facing 'detransition' under healthcare ban makes urgent plea to lawmakers |language=en-GB |work=The Pink News |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/10/alabama-trans-healthcare-ban/ |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> Pediatricians testifying against the bills have said they are based on myths and misconceptions about transgender healthcare.<ref name="AAP-on-healthcare-bans" /> A medical report published by Yale in response to bans on gender-affirming care argued that the bans were no more ethical than a prohibition on healthcare for any other life-threatening medical condition.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boulware |first1=Susan |last2=Kamody |first2=Rebecca |last3=Kuper |first3=Laura |title=Biased Science: The Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Medical Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Rely on Inaccurate and Misleading Scientific Claims |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/lgbtqi/research/gender-affirming-care/report%20on%20the%20science%20of%20gender-affirming%20care%20final%20april%2028%202022_442952_55174_v1.pdf |publisher=Yale Medicine |access-date=July 17, 2023}}</ref> The president of World Professional Association of Transgender Health wrote an opinion article in the ''New York Times'' stating her view that these laws constituted an effort to "rid the world of transgender people."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bowers |first1=Marci |title=What Decades of Providing Trans Health Care Have Taught Me |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/opinion/trans-healthcare-law.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 2023 |access-date=July 17, 2023}}</ref> Similar sentiments were expressed in a WPATH public communique: "Anti-transgender health care legislation is not about protections for children but about eliminating transgender persons on a micro and macro scale."<ref>{{cite web |title=Statement of Opposition to Legislation Banning Access to Gender-Affirming Health Care in the US |url=https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/Public%20Policies/2023/USPATH_WPATH%20Statement%20re_%20GAHC%20march%208%202023.pdf |publisher=World Professional Association of Transgender Health |access-date=July 17, 2023}}</ref> |
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In 2021, the Arkansas legislature passed [[Arkansas HB 1570|House Bill 1570]], prohibiting transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming health care of any kind. The ACLU challenged the bill, leading a federal judge to issue a temporary injunction, protecting transgender youth in the state from being detransitioned against their will.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Harron |date=June 1, 2022 |title=How Chase Strangio Became the Face of the Legal Battle for Trans Rights |language=en |work=The Advocate |url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/6/01/chase-strangio-aclu-cover-twitter-trans-rights |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> |
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In April 2022, Alabama [[LGBT rights in Alabama#Gender affirming healthcare|Senate Bill 184]] was approved. The bill prevents doctors from prescribing [[puberty blocker]]s or hormone therapy for transgender youth under a threat of up to 10 years in prison, forcibly detransitioning youth in the state, and mandates that school staff [[Coming out|out]] students to their parents.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Serena |date=April 8, 2022 |title=Alabama will now force trans youth to detransition |language=en |work=Dazed |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/55882/1/alabama-will-now-force-medically-transitioning-trans-youth-to-detransition |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> |
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On August 5, 2022, the Florida Board of Medicine voted to consider [[LGBT rights in Florida#Healthcare|guidelines]] proposed by the state's surgeon general, starting the process of denying transgender youth in Florida gender-affirming care.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wiggins |first=Christopher |date=August 5, 2022 |title=Florida Medical Board Votes to Ban Kids' Gender-Affirming Care |language=en |work=The Advocate |url=https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/05/florida-medical-board-votes-ban-kids-gender-affirming-care |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> On October 28, 2022, Florida's Board of Medicine passed a motion to ban all gender-affirming healthcare for minors, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lehman |first=Mark |date=October 28, 2022 |title=Florida Board of Medicine considers restricting gender-affirming treatment for teens |url=https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/10/28/florida-board-of-medicine-considers-restricting-gender-affirming-treatment-for-teens/ |access-date=October 28, 2022 |website=WKMG |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=October 28, 2022 |title=Florida Board of Medicine Advances Ban on Transition-Related Care for Minors |url=https://www.them.us/story/florida-board-medicine-trans-minor-care |access-date=October 28, 2022 |website=Them |language=en-US}}</ref> The motion mandates all transgender youth to detransition until they turn 18. At one point during the hearing, in response to one protester yelling that trans children would be harmed as a result, board member Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah answered "That's okay", before forcing a vote ahead.<ref name="Yurcaba" /> Some who'd been at the meeting were reported as saying that the board had put all the speakers in favor of the ban, many of whom were from outside of the state or outside of the country, first in line to speak, before cutting off public comment once they ran out and pro-trans Floridians began to take the podium.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Baska |first1=Maggie |date=October 29, 2022 |title=Florida medical board committee takes next step to ban gender-affirming healthcare for trans kids |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/florida-medical-board-gender-affirming-medical-care-trans-youth/ |website=The Pink News}}</ref> The [[Florida Department of Children and Families|Florida Department of Health]] released official state guidance that transgender children should not be allowed to wear clothes or use names or pronouns aligning with their gender identity.<ref name="Nast">{{Cite magazine |date=January 5, 2023 |title=Oklahoma Bill Would Ban Gender-Affirming Care for People Under 26, Could Force Some to Detransition |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/oklahoma-gender-affirming-care-ban-bill |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US |access-date=January 13, 2023}}</ref> |
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In Spring 2021, the [[Center for Christian Virtue]] proposed Ohio [[LGBT rights in Ohio#Transgender rights|House Bill 454]], known as the "Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act" in Ohio. The bill was introduced by state representative [[Gary Click]] in 2022 without consulting any transgender people beforehand and would forcibly detransition all transgender minors in the state. The bill would also require counselors, teachers, and all other staff at public and private schools to [[Coming out|out]] transgender youth to their parents. Click stated he believes children are being "[[LGBT grooming conspiracy theory|groomed]]" into thinking that they are trans.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Trau |first=Morgan |date=July 13, 2022 |title=Ohio Rep. behind bill limiting transgender care had never spoken to community |language=en-US |work=Ohio Capital Journal |url=https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/07/13/ohio-rep-behind-bill-limiting-transgender-care-had-never-spoken-to-community/ |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> In February 2023 Click introduced House Bill 68, which according to Planned Parenthood of Ohio "would ban gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary youth ─ regardless of parental consent, wishes of the patient, diagnosis, or previous care-plan".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Legislation |url=https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-advocates-ohio/legislation |access-date=May 17, 2023 |website=www.plannedparenthoodaction.org |language=en}}</ref> |
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In August 2022, [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]] of Georgia introduced the "Protect Children's Innocence Act" that would make providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison and prohibit the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care, including in [[Affordable Care Act]] plans. The bill would also prohibit higher education institutions from providing instruction on gender-affirming care and bar doctors who have provided gender-affirming care to minors from receiving visas or being admitted to the United States.<ref name="Migdon">{{Cite news |last1=Migdon |first1=Brooke |last2=Brooks |first2=Emily |date=August 19, 2022 |title=Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to make gender-affirming care for transgender youth a felony |language=en-US |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3607955-marjorie-taylor-greene-introduces-bill-to-make-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-youth-a-felony/ |access-date=January 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Slisco |first=Aila |date=August 18, 2022 |title=Marjorie Taylor Greene seeks to criminalize gender-affirming care for kids |language=en |work=Newsweek |url=https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-seeks-criminalize-gender-affirming-care-kids-1735044 |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> |
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In 2023, dozens of bills in over 10 U.S. States have been proposed which would ban minors from receiving gender-affirming care.<ref name="Migdon2">{{Cite news |last=Migdon |first=Brooke |date=January 13, 2023 |title=Transgender youth health care bans have a new target: adults |language=en-US |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3810926-transgender-youth-health-care-bans-have-a-new-target-adults/ |access-date=January 13, 2023}}</ref> |
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=== Criminalization of gender-affirming care for adults === |
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Many [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] legislators across the United States are increasingly proposing legislation that would restrict gender-affirming care for adults or make such treatments harder to access. However, no states have succeeded at outright banning gender-affirming care for adults in a way similar to what is being done with minors.<ref>{{cite web|last=Migdon|first=Brooke|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3810926-transgender-youth-health-care-bans-have-a-new-target-adults/|title=Transgender youth health care bans have a new target: adults|website=The Hill|date=January 13, 2023|access-date=2024-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Goldman|first=Maya|url=https://www.axios.com/2024/01/10/trans-care-adults-red-states|title=States are limiting gender-affirming care for adults, too|website=[[Axios (website)|Axios]]|date=January 10, 2024|access-date=2024-02-05}}</ref> Efforts to restrict adults' access to healthcare relies heavily on claims from self-described "[[gender-critical]]" organizations such as [[Genspect]] that young people should not be recognized as adults until they turn 25.<ref name="Migdon2" /> |
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As of January 2024, seven US states limit access to gender-affirming care for adults in some way without banning it, such as allowing private health plans, Medicaid, and correctional facilities to exclude all coverage for gender-affirming care, prohibiting the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care or requiring informed consent practices beyond those typically required in medical practice.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} |
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In January 2024, several US Republican legislators expressed their desire to ban gender-affirming healthcare altogether saying their 'endgame' was to ban it completely for people of all ages.<ref>{{cite web|last=Reed|first=Erin|url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-republicans-ban-trans-care|title=Ohio, Michigan Republicans in released audio: 'Endgame' is to ban trans care 'for everyone'|website=[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=29 January 2024|access-date=2024-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Heywood|first=Todd|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/depth-michigan-lawmakers-discuss-gender-045725600.html|title=In-depth: Michigan lawmakers discuss gender-affirming care ban|website=[[Yahoo! News|Yahoo!]]|date=30 January 2024|access-date=2024-01-31}}</ref> |
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On June 2, 2022, Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] announced a [[LGBT rights in Florida#State_Medicaid|plan to end Medicaid coverage for transgender adults]], making them the first U.S. state to target hormones and transition coverage for adults and removing care for approximately 9,000 adults.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Muñoz-Schaefer |first=Ursula |date=June 3, 2022 |title=Florida is trying to take away gender-affirming medical coverage for 9,000 trans adults |work=Xtra |url=https://xtramagazine.com/power/florida-gender-affirming-medical-coverage-224215 |access-date=September 16, 2022}}</ref> |
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In Missouri in 2022, state legislators weighed extending a youth healthcare ban to adults under 25.<ref name="Migdon2" /> The bill died in the committee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB2649/2022|title=MO HB2649 2022 Regular Session |website=LegiScan}}</ref> |
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In 2023 the state of Oklahoma introduced the "Millstone act" which would prohibit adults up to 25 from receiving gender-affirming care and prohibit [[Medicaid]] coverage for "gender transition procedures" for those under 26.<ref name="Migdon2" /> The bill ultimately did not pass.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://legiscan.com/OK/text/SB129/2023|title=OK SB129 2023 Regular Session |website=LegiScan}}</ref> |
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On March 12, 2023, a Saudi trans woman named [[Suicide of Eden Knight|Eden Knight]] died by [[suicide]] after being forcefully detransitioned. Knight wrote in a suicide note that her parents had hired an American [[private intelligence]] firm and a Saudi lawyer to relocate and forcibly [[conversion therapy|socially and medically]] detransition her. After becoming dependent on the lawyer for food and shelter and fearing he would report her to U.S. immigration authorities, Knight wrote that she returned to her parents in [[Saudi Arabia]]. She secretly continued [[feminizing hormone replacement therapy]], but after being found out twice she died by suicide.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Crimmins |first=Tricia |date=March 14, 2023 |title=Eden Knight, Trans Twitter presence, says she was forced to detransition in viral suicide note |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/eden-knight-detransition-death/ |access-date=March 14, 2023 |website=[[The Daily Dot]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Grieg |first=James |date=March 14, 2023 |title=A young trans woman has committed suicide after a forced detransition |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/58429/1/young-trans-woman-committed-suicide-after-a-forced-detransition-eden-knight |access-date=March 14, 2023 |website=Dazed}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dodds |first=Io |date=March 14, 2023 |title=Saudi Arabian trans woman feared dead after family 'forced her to detransition' |website=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eden-knight-saudi-arabia-suicide-b2300816.html |access-date=March 14, 2023}}</ref><ref name="ViceNewsEdenKnight">{{cite magazine |last1=Zoledziowski |first1=Anya |last2=Marchman |first2=Tim |date=March 16, 2023 |title=A Young Saudi Trans Woman Is Believed Dead After Being Lured From the US and Forced to Detransition |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5ey4/eden-knight-believed-dead-after-forced-detransition-saudi-arabia |url-status=live |magazine=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230316120604/https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5ey4/eden-knight-believed-dead-after-forced-detransition-saudi-arabia |archive-date=March 16, 2023 |access-date=March 16, 2023}}</ref> |
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In many prisons within the US, both state and federal, trans prisoners are often forcibly detransitioned.<ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=Wired |title=Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care |url=https://www.wired.com/story/inmates-doctors-battle-over-transgender-medical-care/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |work=NYT |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/us/ashley-diamond-transgender-inmate-out-of-prison-but-not-fully-free.html |title=Ashley Diamond, Transgender inmate, Is Out of Prison But Far From Free|date=September 24, 2015 |last1=Sontag |first1=Deborah }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2023-02-16/a-missouri-bill-to-ban-gender-affirming-care-for-kids-expanded-to-include-incarcerated-adults |work=NPR (local) |title=A Missouri bill to ban gender-affirming care for kids expanded to include adults in prison}}</ref> |
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=== Genocide model === |
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Detransition has attracted interest from both [[Social conservatism|social conservatives]] on the [[Right-wing politics|political right]] and [[Radical feminism|radical feminists]] on the [[Left-wing politics|political left]]. Activists on the right have been accused of using detransitioners' stories to further their work [[Transphobia|against trans rights]].<ref> {{harvnb|Ford|2018}}; {{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}; {{harvnb|Tobia|2018}}</ref> Those on the left see detransitioners' experiences as further proof of [[Patriarchy|patriarchal]] enforcement of [[gender roles]] and [[Medicalization|medicalized]] erasure of [[Homosexuality|gays and lesbians]].<ref>{{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}</ref> This attention has elicited in detransitioners mixed feelings of both exploitation and support.<ref>{{harvnb|Herzog|2017a}}; {{harvnb|Bowen|2007}}</ref> |
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Forced detransition has been described as a form of [[transgender genocide]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lennard |first=Natasha |date=May 4, 2023 |title=Texas GOP Opens Up a New Front in Genocidal Anti-Trans Campaign |work=[[The Intercept]] |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/05/04/texas-republicans-anti-trans/ |access-date=December 14, 2023}}</ref> This is primarily due to the assertion that forced detransition fits multiple criteria to be described as an act of genocide under the United Nations definition of such. Laws banning gender affirming care and/or directly forcing those receiving it to detransition have been described as fitting two acts defined as acts of genocide by the UN - “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group” and “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", and laws allowing [[child protective services]] to pursue child abuse claims against the parents of children receiving gender-affirming care and remove said children have been described as fitting another defined act of genocide, that of "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/22977970/anti-trans-legislation-texas-idaho |last=St. James |first=Emily |title=The time to panic about anti-trans legislation is now |work=Vox |date=March 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-twisted-attack-trans-kids-just-got-worse-n1290792 |title=Greg Abbott's death wish for trans kids is on full display |last=Burns |first=Katelyn |work=MSNBC |date=March 4, 2022}}</ref> |
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Detransition is the cessation or reversal of a transgender identification or of gender transition, temporarily or permanently, through social, legal, and/or medical means.[1] The term is distinct from the concept of 'regret', and the decision may be based on a shift in gender identity, or other reasons, such as health concerns, social pressure, discrimination, stigma,[2] political beliefs,[3] or religious beliefs.[4]
Some studies use the term retransition rather than detransition.[5] Retransition is also commonly used to describe the resumption of transition or transgender identity following a detransition.[6]
The estimated prevalence of detransition varies depending on definitions and methodology, with estimates ranging from 1% to 8%.[7] A 2018 review on the outcomes of gender transition found a large majority of data showing positive outcomes, a few reports of neutral outcomes or null results, and no studies which reported that gender transition causes overall harm.[8] Although some studies cite a range up to 8%, this combines 3% of survey respondents who had de-transitioned at the time of the survey, along with 5% who had temporarily done so in the past.[7][9] Different methodological limitations afflict studies reporting low and high incidence.[10][11]
Formal studies of detransition have been few in number,[12] politically controversial,[13] and inconsistent in the way they characterize the phenomenon.[14] Professional interest in the phenomenon has been met with contention, and some scholars have argued there is censorship around the topic.[15] Some ex-detransitioners regret detransitioning and choose to retransition later.[5] Some organizations with ties to conversion therapy have used detransition narratives to push transphobic rhetoric and legislation.[16]
Background and terminology
Gender transition, often shortened to just transition, is the process of a transgender person changing their gender expression and/or sex characteristics to accord with their internal sense of gender identity.[17] Methods of transition vary from person to person, but the process commonly involves social changes (such as clothing, personal name, and pronouns), legal changes (such as changes in legal name and legal gender), and medical/physical changes (such as hormone replacement therapy and gender-affirming surgery).
Detransition (sometimes called retransition) is the process of halting or reverting a transgender identification or gender transition.[18] Like transition, detransition is a process rather than a single event, and methods of detransitioning vary and can involve social, legal, and physical changes to one's gender expression, social identity, identity documents.[19] Desistance is a general term for any cessation,[20] and it is commonly applied specifically to the cessation of transgender identity or gender dysphoria.[21] Those who undertake detransition are known as detransitioners.[22] Detransition is sometimes associated with transition regret, but regret and detransition do not always coincide.[23]
The term detransition is controversial within the transgender community. According to Turban et al., this is because, as with the word transition, it carries an "incorrect implication that gender identity is contingent upon gender affirmation processes". The term has also been conflated with transition regret, and thereby become associated with movements that aim to restrict the access of transgender people to transition-related healthcare.[24]
Occurrence
Formal studies of detransition have been few in number,[12] of disputed quality and politically controversial.[13] Frequency estimates for detransition and desistance vary greatly, with notable differences in terminology and methodology.[25] Detransition is more common in the earlier stages of transition, particularly before surgeries.[26]
The share of trans people who detransition is not known with certainty. Studies which give low estimates (which include[27][28][29][30]) have been criticized for their "serious limitations", such as short follow-up, high or unclear rates of loss to follow up, reliance on individuals returning to secondary care clinics reporting transition regret or seeking reversal procedures, (a study of 100 detransitioners found that only 24% of respondents informed their clinicians that they had detransitioned[10]), errors, non-replicability, as well as other issues.[11][10] Research suggesting higher rates of detransition also has flaws, however, meaning that detransition rates can be under-reported or over-reported.[11]
A 2019 poster presentation examined the records of 3398 patients who attended a UK gender identity clinic between August 2016 and August 2017. Davies and colleagues searched for assessment reports with keywords related to regret or detransition. They identified 16 individuals (0.47%) who expressed regret or had detransitioned. Of those 16, 3 (0.09%) had detransitioned permanently.[1] 10 (0.29%) had detransitioned temporarily, to later retransition.[1] A 2019 clinical assessment found that 9.4% of patients with adolescent-emerging gender dysphoria either ceased wishing to pursue medical interventions or no longer felt that their gender identity was incongruent with their assigned sex at birth within an eighteen-month period.[31] A 2021 study examining the case notes of 175 adults discharged from a UK gender identity clinic between September 2017 and August 2018 found that 12 (6.9%) met the researchers' criteria for detransitioning—that is, they returned to living as their assigned gender. Six individuals were found to have experiences that "overlap" with detransitioners, but were not counted as such for this study due to displaying "gender identity confusion" during treatment.[32]
Those who undergo gender-affirming surgery have very low rates of detransition or transition regret. A 2005 Dutch study included 162 adults who received sex reassignment surgery, 126 of whom participated in follow-up assessments one to four years after surgery. Two individuals expressed regret at follow-up, only one of whom said that they would not transition again if given the opportunity. The remaining 124 out of 126 (98%) expressed no regrets about transitioning.[33] A 2021 meta-analysis of 27 studies concluded that "there is an extremely low prevalence of regret in transgender patients after [gender-affirmation surgery]".[34] In a January 2023 study of 1989 individuals who had undergone sex reassignment surgery, 6 individuals (0.3%) requested a reversal surgery or detransitioned.[35]
Studies of transition regret or detransition in different populations have found different (average or median) elapsed times before these occurred: a 2018 study found 10 years and 10 months on average to regret (but not necessarily detransition) from start of hormonal therapy,[36] and a 2014 study of those who had surgery found a median lag of 8 years before requesting a reversal of legal gender status.[25] A 2021 UK study found evidence that supports detransitioning occurring on average 4–8 years after transitioning.[32]
Informed consent and affirmation of self-diagnosis (both newer but increasingly employed models for transgender healthcare) have been criticized for failing to meet the needs of those who eventually detransition.[37]
Criticisms have been made regarding the "persistence-desistance" dichotomy as ignoring reasons why a person's gender identity may desist outside of simply being cisgender in the first place. For example, an assertion of a cisgender identity may be treated with validity and as an invalidation of a previously stated transgender identity; however, an assertion of a transgender identity may only be treated with the same validity if it is held throughout one's life. An individual may repress or realize their identity at any point in their life for a variety of reasons; some individuals' gender identities are fluid and/or may change throughout their lifetime, and some individuals whose identities are non-binary are effectively excluded due to a study's assumption of a gender binary.[38][39]
Reasons
Reasons for detransitioning vary, and may include health-related concerns, finding that transition did not alleviate gender dysphoria, a negative social environment, and financial concerns.[2]
The National Center for Transgender Equality conducted a survey which collected responses from individuals who identified as transgender at the time of the survey.[9] The results published in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that 8% of respondents reported having ever detransitioned; 62% of that group reported transitioning again and were living as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth at the time of the survey.[40] About 36% reported having detransitioned due to pressure from parents, 33% because it was too difficult, 31% due to discrimination, 29% due to difficulty getting a job, 26% pressure from family members, 18% pressure from a spouse, and 17% due to pressure from an employer.[2]
In a 2021 study of 2,242 individuals recruited via community outreach organizations who detransitioned and who continue to identify as transgender or gender diverse, the vast majority said detransition was in part due to external factors, such as pressure from family, sexual assault, and nonaffirming school environments; another highly cited factor was "it was just too hard for me."[41] Motives for detransitioning commonly include financial barriers to transition, social rejection in transition, depression or suicidality due to transition, and discomfort with sexual characteristics developed during transition. Additional motives include concern for lack of data on long-term effects of hormone replacement therapy, concern for loss of fertility, complications from surgery, and changes in gender identity.[42] Some people detransition on a temporary basis, in order to accomplish a particular aim, such as having biologically related children, or until barriers to transition have been resolved or removed.[43] Transgender elders may also detransition out of concern for whether they can receive adequate or respectful care in later life.[44]
A qualitative study comparing child desisters to persisters (those with persisting gender dysphoria) found that while persisters related their dysphoria primarily to a mismatch between their bodies and their identity, desisters' dysphoria was more likely to be, at least retroactively, related to a desire to fulfill the other gender role.[45]
Cultural and political impact
There are no legal, medical, and psychological guidelines on the topic of detransition.[46][clarification needed] The Standards of Care by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) do not mention detransition,[47] though 37 WPATH surgeons have expressed a desire for detransition guidelines to be included,[48] and former WPATH president and longtime chair of WPATH's Standards of Care revision team, Eli Coleman, has listed detransition among the topics that he would like to see included in the eighth edition.[49]
Some researchers perceive there to be an atmosphere of censorship around studying the phenomenon.[15] Various sides involved in the dispute over detransitioning say they have been harassed and have described each other as threats to transgender rights.[50][51]
Controversy surrounding detransition within trans activism primarily arises from how the subject is framed as a subject of moral panic in mainstream media and right-wing politics.[52] Detransition has attracted interest from both social conservatives on the political right and radical feminists on the political left. Activists on the right have been accused of using detransitioners' stories to further their work against trans rights.[53] On the left, some radical feminists see detransitioners' experiences as further proof of patriarchal enforcement of gender roles and medicalized erasure of gays and lesbians.[54] Other feminists have expressed disagreement with this opinion, referring to those who hold these beliefs as trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERF).[55] This attention has elicited in detransitioners mixed feelings of both exploitation and support.[54][56]
In August 2017, the Mazzoni Center's Philadelphia Trans Health Conference, which is an annual meeting of transgender people, advocates, and healthcare providers, canceled two panel discussions on detransition and alternate methods of working with gender dysphoria.[57] The conference organizers said, "When a topic becomes controversial, such as this one has turned on social media, there is a duty to make sure that the debate does not get out of control at the conference itself. After several days of considerations and reviewing feedback, the planning committee voted that the workshops, while valid, cannot be presented at the conference as planned."[58]
In September 2017, Bath Spa University revoked permission for James Caspian, a Jungian psychotherapist who works with transgender people and is a trustee of the Beaumont Trust, to research regret of gender-reassignment procedures and pursuit of detransition.[59] Caspian alleged the reason for the university's refusal was that it was "a potentially politically incorrect piece of research, [which] carries a risk to the university. Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher, but may involve the university. The posting of unpleasant material on blogs or social media may be detrimental to the reputation of the university."[60] The university stated that Caspian's proposal "was not refused because of the subject matter, but rather because of his proposed methodological approach. The university was not satisfied this approach would guarantee the anonymity of his participants or the confidentiality of the data."[61] In May 2017, he took the matter to the High Court, which concluded his application for a judicial review was "totally without merit".[61] The outcome was also considered by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, who determined the university's conclusion was reasonable.[61] Caspian appealed to the High Court for judicial review again in 2019; the judge ruled against him, saying, "I entirely accept that there are important issues of freedom of expression. I just do not accept that, on the facts of this particular case, there is an arguable case made out," and adding that the application was too late.[62] Caspian claimed that he was "refused permission for a Judicial Review on points of procedure" and that the judge "was clearly sympathetic to the case but felt that his hands were tied by legal procedure;"[61] in February 2021, he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.[63]
Many ex-gay and Christian Right affiliated organizations also promote programs aiming to discourage transition, promote reversal or desistence of transition, and to change individuals' gender identities. A key characteristic of these organizations are the construction of "transgenderism" as a sin against God or the natural order. In the 1970s, Exodus International platformed Perry Desmond, an "ex-transsexual" who evangelized throughout the US and supported Anita Bryant's Save Our Children campaign. Another prominent characteristic is ex-transgender testimonials, which depict "the transgender lifestyle" as destructive as opposed to contemplation of God and encourage other transgender people to join them. These organizations portray "gender ideology" and "transgender ideology" as a social contagion threatening to the natural order.[64]
Ky Schevers, an "ex-detransitioner" whose detransition was prominently profiled by Katie Herzog[50] and The Outline,[65] spoke about her experiences in a community of radical feminist detransitioned women, drawing parallels to the ex-gay movement and conversion therapy.[56] Parallels drawn include suppressing rather than addressing or removing the underlying dysphoria, stating that not only their gender dysphoria but everyone's dysphoria was a result of internalized sexism and trauma, and language from the twelve-step program being used to describe the desire to transition.[56]
Schevers noted that during the Bell v Tavistock ruling, her lawyer had connections to the right-wing and anti-LGBT-rights organization the Alliance Defending Freedom, which she described as pushing most of the anti-trans bills in the United States. Schevers later created Health Liberation Now! alongside Lee Leveille, who'd also previously been involved in detransition communities that were transphobic, to "give voice to folks who have complicated experiences with transition or detransition, retransition and shifting senses of self that goes beyond a lot of the TERFy areas that people are inevitably getting funnelled into". The group has reported on conversion therapy practices and maintains resources to help identify relationships between clinical conversion therapists and astroturfed campaigns led by anti-trans groups.[16]
Criminalization of gender-affirming care
Criminalization of gender-affirming care for minors
In 2021, legislatures in 22 states in the United States introduced bills that would criminalize the provision of gender-affirming care to transgender minors, forcibly detransitioning those who are unable to or refuse to leave the state.[citation needed] By the end of February 2022, the number had risen to 29. Supporters of these bills often cite concerns about detransition and desistance and claim they wish to protect children. Scientific evidence suggests these bills will cause harm to transgender children as gender-affirming care is often necessary and access to it has consistently shown a positive relationship with mental well-being, and an inability to access gender-affirming care can cause gender dysphoria, which can commonly lead to anxiety, depression and even suicide in transgender children and teens.[66][67]
The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Psychological Association have spoken out against the bills and defended the right of minors to transition.[66][68][69][70] In a letter to the National Governors Association, the American Medical Association warned that anti-trans healthcare bans will lead to greater rates of depression and suicide for transgender youth and described bills banning gender-affirming care as "a dangerous intrusion into the practice of medicine".[69][71] Pediatricians testifying against the bills have said they are based on myths and misconceptions about transgender healthcare.[70] A medical report published by Yale in response to bans on gender-affirming care argued that the bans were no more ethical than a prohibition on healthcare for any other life-threatening medical condition.[72] The president of World Professional Association of Transgender Health wrote an opinion article in the New York Times stating her view that these laws constituted an effort to "rid the world of transgender people."[73] Similar sentiments were expressed in a WPATH public communique: "Anti-transgender health care legislation is not about protections for children but about eliminating transgender persons on a micro and macro scale."[74]
In 2021, the Arkansas legislature passed House Bill 1570, prohibiting transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming health care of any kind. The ACLU challenged the bill, leading a federal judge to issue a temporary injunction, protecting transgender youth in the state from being detransitioned against their will.[75]
In April 2022, Alabama Senate Bill 184 was approved. The bill prevents doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapy for transgender youth under a threat of up to 10 years in prison, forcibly detransitioning youth in the state, and mandates that school staff out students to their parents.[76]
On August 5, 2022, the Florida Board of Medicine voted to consider guidelines proposed by the state's surgeon general, starting the process of denying transgender youth in Florida gender-affirming care.[77] On October 28, 2022, Florida's Board of Medicine passed a motion to ban all gender-affirming healthcare for minors, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries.[78][79] The motion mandates all transgender youth to detransition until they turn 18. At one point during the hearing, in response to one protester yelling that trans children would be harmed as a result, board member Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah answered "That's okay", before forcing a vote ahead.[68] Some who'd been at the meeting were reported as saying that the board had put all the speakers in favor of the ban, many of whom were from outside of the state or outside of the country, first in line to speak, before cutting off public comment once they ran out and pro-trans Floridians began to take the podium.[80] The Florida Department of Health released official state guidance that transgender children should not be allowed to wear clothes or use names or pronouns aligning with their gender identity.[81]
In Spring 2021, the Center for Christian Virtue proposed Ohio House Bill 454, known as the "Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act" in Ohio. The bill was introduced by state representative Gary Click in 2022 without consulting any transgender people beforehand and would forcibly detransition all transgender minors in the state. The bill would also require counselors, teachers, and all other staff at public and private schools to out transgender youth to their parents. Click stated he believes children are being "groomed" into thinking that they are trans.[82] In February 2023 Click introduced House Bill 68, which according to Planned Parenthood of Ohio "would ban gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary youth ─ regardless of parental consent, wishes of the patient, diagnosis, or previous care-plan".[83]
In August 2022, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia introduced the "Protect Children's Innocence Act" that would make providing gender-affirming care to transgender minors a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison and prohibit the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care, including in Affordable Care Act plans. The bill would also prohibit higher education institutions from providing instruction on gender-affirming care and bar doctors who have provided gender-affirming care to minors from receiving visas or being admitted to the United States.[84][85]
In 2023, dozens of bills in over 10 U.S. States have been proposed which would ban minors from receiving gender-affirming care.[86]
Criminalization of gender-affirming care for adults
Many Republican legislators across the United States are increasingly proposing legislation that would restrict gender-affirming care for adults or make such treatments harder to access. However, no states have succeeded at outright banning gender-affirming care for adults in a way similar to what is being done with minors.[87][88] Efforts to restrict adults' access to healthcare relies heavily on claims from self-described "gender-critical" organizations such as Genspect that young people should not be recognized as adults until they turn 25.[86]
As of January 2024, seven US states limit access to gender-affirming care for adults in some way without banning it, such as allowing private health plans, Medicaid, and correctional facilities to exclude all coverage for gender-affirming care, prohibiting the use of federal funds for gender-affirming care or requiring informed consent practices beyond those typically required in medical practice.[citation needed]
In January 2024, several US Republican legislators expressed their desire to ban gender-affirming healthcare altogether saying their 'endgame' was to ban it completely for people of all ages.[89][90]
On June 2, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a plan to end Medicaid coverage for transgender adults, making them the first U.S. state to target hormones and transition coverage for adults and removing care for approximately 9,000 adults.[91]
In Missouri in 2022, state legislators weighed extending a youth healthcare ban to adults under 25.[86] The bill died in the committee.[92]
In 2023 the state of Oklahoma introduced the "Millstone act" which would prohibit adults up to 25 from receiving gender-affirming care and prohibit Medicaid coverage for "gender transition procedures" for those under 26.[86] The bill ultimately did not pass.[93]
On March 12, 2023, a Saudi trans woman named Eden Knight died by suicide after being forcefully detransitioned. Knight wrote in a suicide note that her parents had hired an American private intelligence firm and a Saudi lawyer to relocate and forcibly socially and medically detransition her. After becoming dependent on the lawyer for food and shelter and fearing he would report her to U.S. immigration authorities, Knight wrote that she returned to her parents in Saudi Arabia. She secretly continued feminizing hormone replacement therapy, but after being found out twice she died by suicide.[94][95][96][97]
In many prisons within the US, both state and federal, trans prisoners are often forcibly detransitioned.[98][99][100]
Genocide model
Forced detransition has been described as a form of transgender genocide.[101] This is primarily due to the assertion that forced detransition fits multiple criteria to be described as an act of genocide under the United Nations definition of such. Laws banning gender affirming care and/or directly forcing those receiving it to detransition have been described as fitting two acts defined as acts of genocide by the UN - “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group” and “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part", and laws allowing child protective services to pursue child abuse claims against the parents of children receiving gender-affirming care and remove said children have been described as fitting another defined act of genocide, that of "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group".[102][103]
See also
- Category:People who detransitioned
- Healthcare and the LGBT community
- LGBT rights by country or territory
- LGBT social movements
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External links
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