Detransitioner resources
By Genspect
In conjunction with our international conference in honour of Detrans Awareness Day on March 12, 2022, Genspect has attempted to compile the most exhaustive list of resources for and about detransitioners. We plan to add more as we find it, so do check back here in the future. If you notice anything we’ve missed or a link that no longer works, please email us at info@genspect.org. Thank you!
CONFERENCES
Genspect, Detrans Awareness Day Conference, virtual, March 12, 2022
Video: Genspect youtube channel (coming soon)
Feminists in Struggle presents: ‘The Other Side of Transgender: The Story of De-transitioners’ virtual, August 9, 2021
Detransition: The Elephant in the Room, a Panel Discussion Chaired by Charlie Evans of the Detrans Advocacy Network, Manchester UK, Nov. 30, 2019
Transcript (copy and paste link): chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/viewer.html?pdfurl=https%3A%2F%2F08e98b5f-7b7a-40c9-a93b-8195d9b9a854.filesusr.com%2Fugd%2F305c8f_34b673d3097c4df88bf9b9e8f6ed1006.pdf%3Findex%3Dtrue&clen=75500&chunk=true
SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY ORGS
POST-TRANS by Elie and Nele, detrans authors -not active full-time, but site still functions: https://post-trans.com – Related YouTube videos
DETRANS VOICES, is led by two desisted women and one detransitioned woman offering support and information to men and women wishing to detransition or desist. Detrans Voices s a platform for detransitioners and desisters to share their stories: https://www.detransvoices.org/
GCCAN (Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network), A consumer rights group for any person who has previously or is currently receiving gender care related services: https://www.gccan.org
DETRANS CANADA, non-partisan advocacy organization that supports detransitioning, desisting, and re-identifying Canadians: https://detranscanada.com/
DETRANS INFO- SWEDEN: https://www.detransinfo.se/
DETRANS INFO- RUSSIA: https://vk.com/detransition
GENSPECT, international alliance of parent and professional groups whose aim is to advocate for parents of gender-questioning children and young people: Genspect
THE GENDER DYSPHORIA SUPPORT NETWORK (GDSN), detransition sessions, please inquire: https://genderdysphoriasupportnetwork.com/
GENDER DYSPHORIA ALLIANCE (GDA), evidence-based conversation about gender dysphoria: https://www.genderdysphoriaalliance.com/
LGB ALLIANCE, USA, dedicated to the rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people: https://www.lgbausa.org/
GETA: Gender Exploratory Therapy Association, therapists providing thoughtful care without ideological or political agendas: https://genderexploratory.com/
SEGM (Society for Evidence-Based gender Medicine), A group of doctors promoting evidence-informed healthcare for people with gender dysphoria: https://segm.org
TRANSGENDER TREND, detransition resources page: https://www.transgendertrend.com/detransition/
SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING
Twitter handles:
Genspect Detrans Awareness conference presenters:
Sinead : @ImWatson91
Helena : @lacroicsz
Keira : @KLBfax
Sour Patches : @SourPatches2077
Grace: @HormoneHangover
Limpida: @americandog98
The Artists Formerly Known as Tim: @LeCielNestVert
Some Nuance Please : @somenuancepls
Allie: @nervewrvcking
Robin: @niwatori_dt
Others:
Athena : @mothergender
Laura : @detranny
Maggie: @oatsandmag
@MediocreDruid
The Detransition Advocacy Network (TDAN): @detransadv
Detrans Voices on twitter – https://twitter.com/FtMdetransed
Jess: @chunkylegos
Ellie: @DetransEllie
Tiresias: @Tiresiasovid
@newthoughtcrime
Jay: @OJayy_
#detrans
Type of resource: Social Media
Link: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23detrans&src=typed_query
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%23detrans&epa=SEARCH_BOX
Description: You can search on Twitter and Facebook for the hashtag #detrans to find stories and perspectives of detransitioners.
Reddit:
The Detrans Subreddit
Type of resource: Forum
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/
Description: Online forum for detransitioners, questioners, and allies to discuss gender, transition, and detransition. Broad range of views and opinions are tolerated. The detrans subreddit was created in November 2017 and in the first two years, membership exceeded 6,000.
The r/detrans demographic survey – Screened and broken down (March 2022)
Life Detransitions
Type of resource: Therapeutic Service
Link: https://lifedetransitions.com/
Description: Online individual and group support for questioners, desisters and detransitioners, in English and German.
Detransition_Support
Type of resource: Forum
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/detransition_support/
Description: Self-described as a non-anti-trans detransition board.
Gender Detox
Type of resource: Forum
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/gender_detox/
Description: Gender is the cause of dysphoria, not the solution to it. If you are dysphoric, considering transition or detransition, gender non-conforming and tired of genderism, this is the place for you. It’s okay to reject transnormativity, it’s okay to be different. There is no wrong way to be a woman, no wrong way to be a man.
Reconciling Womyn
Type of resource: Forum
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/reconcilingwomyn/
Description: A womyn’s-only space dedicated to the discussion, support and access to resources for recovery from the experiences of formerly-identifying as trans or for any womon who has experienced a time of disenfranchisement from her sex.
Ask AGP
Type of resource: Forum
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/askAGP/
Description: A support group for people dealing with autogynephilia.
BLOGS & PROJECTS
Some Nuance Please, by Michelle Alleva, Substack: https://somenuanceplease.substack.com/archive?sort=top
New Thought Crime: https://newthoughtcrime.com
Hormone Hangover, By Grace, Substack: https://hormonehangover.substack.com/about
Funk Life by Laura Becker, Substack: https://funklife.substack.com
Pique Resilience Project- https://www.piqueresproject.com
Related YouTube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGEMjyAwk6R1lTmG_JjLUA
Callahan C. Advice for Gender Dysphoric Teens https://destroyyourbinder.tumblr.com/post/181225895145/advice-for-gender-dysphoric-teens-carey-callahan
Chunky Legos by Jess: https://chunkylegoblocks.ca
Prude Posting by Helena: https://lacroicsz.substack.com
Redress Alert, Tumblr: https://redressalert.tumblr.com
Oversharing, by male Detrans: http://clefairy.net/oversharing/
4th Wave Now (Not strictly detrans, but many contributions by detrans): https://4thwavenow.com/?s=DETRANS&submit=Search
A Message of Hope for Dysphoric Young People, From Five Anonymous Detransitioners: https://a-message-of-hope.com/2020/12/17/a-message-of-hope-for-dysphoric-young-people-from-five-anonymous-detransitioners/
Ținând de Mâinii Strigoii-lor, by Limpidă, Substack https://strigoi.substack.com
Guide on Raging Stars by Cari Stella, archived https://guideonragingstars.tumblr.com/post/149877706175/female-detransition-and-reidentification-survey
Ellie Sevilla: https://elliesevilla.substack.com/the-story-so-far
Kirjo- It felt like living on the edge: Story of a 14 year old Finnish girl: https://www.ihmistenkirjo.net/blog/kuin-olisin-ollut-kuilun-reunalla-14-vuotiaan-suomalaistytn-tarina-74pn3
Detransition, The journey from female to male to female, by Maggie, Medium: https://medium.com/@awbreymaggie8/detransition-505c99d822df
PODCASTS & APPEARANCES
Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast, by Sasha Ayad & Stella O’Malley
Episode 15: Carol
Episodes 45 & 46: Helena
Episode 52: Lisa Littman
Theology in the Raw, #881: Daisy Chandra
Theology in the Raw, Diversity of Trans* part 4: Detransition and Gender Ideology: Helena
Daisy Chadra on Time Capsule Show Podcast Ep. 33 (What is Detransitioning?)
Dr. Oren Amitay, Apparently Not ALL (Formerly) Autogynephilic Trans People Hate Me or Science/Facts/Reality, Interview with J.A. Brown (detransitioner)
Blocked and Reported, Episode 50 with Carey Callahan
TransPsyche Podcast by Laura Becker & Vincent De Boni
Transparency Podcast, GDA, Aaron K. & Aaron T:
Episode 13: Cynthia: a Woman’s Choice to Not Medicalize Gender
Episode 16: Right Mind, Wrong Spectrum: With Michelle Alleva
Episode 17: ROGD and Detransition Research: With Lisa Littman
Episode 19: Splintered Ego: AGP – with Limpida
Episode 22: Tumblr Trans – with Helena
Episode 23: Autoandrophilia Files – Laura Reynolds
Episode 37: Grace
Episode 22: Body dysmorphia
Helena on the Dishcast by Andrew Sullivan:
Dangerous Speech Podcast:
Episode 104: Helena
https://soundcloud.com/obaid-omer/ep-104-helena?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Episode 115: Sinead
https://soundcloud.com/obaid-omer/ep-115-sinead?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
YOUTUBE
Channels by female detrans:
Cari Stella, active c. 2017-18,
GNC Centric & Post Gender Funk
Channels by male detrans:
Cluniac (Issac) – includes the recording “Confronting my gender therapist”
My Negative – Dustin detrans male
Detrans interviews and appearances:
Calmversations (Boyce of Reason), by Benjamin Boyce (detrans playlist)
upperhand Mars, Detrans playlist and here
Whose Body is it?, Detrans playlist
ARTICLES & PROGRAMS
“Keira Bell: My Story,” Persuasion, Apr 7, 2021: https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story?s=r
Burnham, Katherine. “Dysphoria and Disintegration in Women who are ‘Too Much,” Thirdfactor Magazine, Issue 17, July 22, 2021: https://www.thirdfactor.org/dysphoria-disintegration/
Dodsworth, Laura. “The detransitioners,” The Sunday Times Magazine, July 12, 2020:
The Detransitioners photo essay and video
Also published on Medium: https://medium.com/@barereality/the-detransitioners-72a4e01a10f9
Evans, S. & Evans, M. “Gender Transition and Desistance in Teenage Girls: Two Psychotherapeutic Case Studies,” Quillette, July 30, 2021: https://quillette.com/2021/07/30/gender-transition-and-desistance-in-teenage-girls-two-psychotherapeutic-case-studies/
Carol F. From the ashes: Butch lesbian & her family rebuild life after transition, July 14, 2019: https://4thwavenow.com/2019/07/14/from-the-ashes-butch-lesbian-her-family-rebuild-life-after-transition/
Hawker, Elizabeth. “Autism, Puberty, and Gender Dysphoria, The view from an autistic desisted woman,” 4W, March 31, 2020: https://4w.pub/autism-puberty-gender-dysphoria-view-from-an-autistic-desisted-woman/
Herzog, Katie. “The Detransitioners: They were Transgender Until They Weren’t,” The Stranger, June 28, 2017 (Features): https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the-detransitioners-they-were-transgender-until-they-werent
Holt, Alson. “NHS gender clinic ‘should have challenged me more’ over transition,” BBC NEWS, March 1, 2020 (Heath): https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51676020
Louis, Chantal. “INTERVIEW: Sam, Nele, and Ellie transitioned as young women, living as ‘men’ before realizing they’d made a mistake,” Feminist Current, Aug. 7, 2020: https://www.feministcurrent.com/2020/08/07/interview-sam-nele-and-ellie-transitioned-as-young-women-living-as-men-before-realizing-theyd-made-a-mistake/
Marchiano, L. The project of a lifetime: A therapist’s letter to a trans-identified teen: https://4thwavenow.com/2018/05/10/the-project-of-a-lifetime-a-therapists-letter-to-a-trans-identified-teen/
McFadden, Joan. “Interview: Transition Caused More Problems Than It Solved,” The Guardian, Sept. 16, 2017 (Family): https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/16/transition-caused-more-problems-than-it-solved
Pressly, Linda & Proctor, Lucy. “Ellie and Nele: From She to He and Back to She Again,” BBC World Service, Germany, 10 March 2020: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51806011
Selin Davis, Lisa. “One Desister’s Tale: On the overlap between autism and gender dysphoria,” Broadview, Substack, Feb. 11, 2022: https://lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/one-desisters-tale?s=r
Selin Davis, Lisa. “The Mainstream Media Needs to Talk About Detransitioners,” Psychreg, Dec 21, 2021: https://www.psychreg.org/mainstream-media-talk-about-detransitioners/
Singal, Jesse. “When Children say They’re Trans,” The Atlantic magazine, July/Aug. 2018: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/
Sullivan, Rene. “A Different Stripe: For eight years, Renee Sullivan identified as transgender. Then it got more complicated,” Psychology Today, March 7, 2018: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201803/different-stripe
Watson, Sinead. An Open Letter: https://genspect.org/an-open-letter/
Transgender boy transitioning to life as girl changes his mind, 60 Minutes Australia, 2017:
Health care challenges for transgender youth, 60 Minutes USA, May 23, 2021 (paywall)
Support Detransitioner Awareness Day on March 12th, PITT, March 2, 2022: https://pitt.substack.com/p/support-detransitioner-awareness?s=r
They say desistance is rare. But is it really? PITT, March 1, 2022: https://pitt.substack.com/p/they-say-desistance-is-rare-but-is?s=r
PAPERS, SURVEYS, PUBLISHED STUDIES
Littman L. “Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners.” Arch Sex Behav. 2021 Nov;50(8):3353-3369. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02163-w. Epub 2021 Oct 19. PMID: 34665380; PMCID: PMC8604821.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34665380/
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10508-021-02163-w.pdf
Expósito-Campos, Pablo (2021), “A Typology of Gender Detransition and Its Implications for Healthcare Providers,” Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 10 Jan 2021, 47:3, 270-280. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1869126
D’Angelo, Roberto (2020). “The man I am trying to be is not me,” The International Journal of Psychoanalysis,101:5, 951-970, DOI: 10.1080/00207578.2020.1810049
Canadian Gender Report, Survey: From trans to detransitioner – what can we learn from this growing trend?, Oct. 17, 2019. https://genderreport.ca/detransitioners-what-can-we-learn/
Vandenbussche E. “Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey,” J Homosex. 2021 Apr 30:1-19. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33929297. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479
Zucker, K. J. (2018). The myth of persistence: Response to “A critical commentary on follow-up studies and ‘desistance’ theories about transgender and gender non-conforming children” by Temple Newhook et al. (2018). International Journal of Transgenderism, 19(2), 231–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2018.1468293
Singh, D., Bradley, S. J., & Zucker, K. J. (2021). A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784
Hall, R., Mitchell, L., & Sachdeva, J. (2021). Access to care and frequency of detransition among a cohort discharged by a UK national adult gender identity clinic: retrospective case-note review. BJPsych Open, 7(6), e184. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1022
Marchiano, Lisa. “Gender detransition: a case study,” Analytical Psychology, Sept. 2021, Vol 66 Issue 4, pg. 813-832: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5922.12711
Amicus brief by detransitioners: https://childparentrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Amicus-Brief-Detransitioners-as-filed-7.07.2021.pdf
Cari Stella, Female detransition and reidentification: Survey results and interpretation, 2016.
Ongoing survey by Detranscount: https://detranscount.wixsite.com/website?fbclid=IwAR2TMDO61SrqRmg9TuJwoPfrqTQQVhs6hle-OUNEIRbNBh9SU09SjJiUXvM
Principles of Hormone Discontinuation By William J. Malone, MD: (copy and past link) chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/viewer.html?pdfurl=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.cargocollective.com%2Fc523136%2FReIME-Discontinue-Hormones_2-11.11.42.pdf&clen=64933&chunk=true
BOOKS AND BOOKLETS
Robinson, Max. Detransition: Beyond Before and After, Spiniflex Press, 2021
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58766909-detransition
Author linktree: https://linktr.ee/detransition
Post Trans booklet (free download), Gender Detransition, a path towards self-acceptance: https://post-trans.com/Detransition-Booklet