Today's new terms - Detransition/detransphobia

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“Ghosted”— ignored — by the surgeons who altered their bodies and ostracized by the communities that once embraced them, the largest study of detransitioners in Canada and the U.S. in decades is exposing a new form of stigma: detransphobia.

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The survey of nearly 1,000 people suggests that many who halt or reverse a gender transition feel poorly supported by LGBTQ groups and gender-affirming care practitioners, and wish doctors “took a more neutral approach to care.”

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“The mainstream gender-affirming care system largely presumes that gender identity/expression is immutable and that TGD (transgender and gender-diverse) people will engage in only one gender transition,” the York University-led research team wrote in the International Journal of Transgender Health.

“While this may be the reality for many TGD people, this presumption can create environments in which multiple transitions, gender fluidity, and detransitions are misunderstood or even stigmatized.”

While there’s no universally agreed upon definition, detransition “has been conceptualized as stopping, shifting or reversing aspects of an initial gender transition, often motivated by a shift in how one understands their sex/gender,” the researchers wrote.

It can mean changing names and pronouns, halting hormone therapy or seeking reversal surgeries such as breast reconstruction following a double mastectomy for masculinizing, female-to-male chest surgery.

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Respondents were asked to rank their degree of agreement (always, sometimes, never, not applicable) to a series of statements, like, “I needed health care but didn’t receive it.”

Most participants (79 per cent) were born female, reflecting the startling surge in biological girls being referred to gender clinics. One Canadian study found that, of 174 youth aged 15 and younger referred for puberty blockers to one of 10 gender clinics in Canada, 82 per cent were born female.

When asked how they describe themselves, 40 per cent of survey respondents were comfortable with “detransitioned,” 43 percent with transgender, 33 percent non-binary and about 20 per cent “cisgender”

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