Gender detransition (more accurately referred to as retransition or secondary transition) refers to any significant change in a person’s gender-related social, medical, or legal transition after they have previously transitioned from their assigned gender role at birth to another gender identity. It is an umbrella term—people use it in different ways—so it’s helpful to break it down clearly.
Many people who retransition state that they are making a choice that better aligns with their genuine sense of self at that time.
Detransition Ideology has no interest in patient well-being or autonomy.
It promotes a singular, genocidal, Christian Nationalist moral conclusion:
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Most people who transition do not retransition.
Retransition rates in clinical samples are generally <1–2% for medical transition.
Life-event or social-pressure-related pauses are more common than identity-change detransitions.
Permanent regret is rare, consistently <1% in long-term clinical studies of gender-affirming surgery.