Tag: Detransitioners
Would you like to write for Genspect?
Categories
- Book Reviews (8)
- Detransition (80)
- Essays (226)
- Events (26)
- Free Speech (6)
- Gender Ideology (181)
- Genspect Explains (14)
- Homepage carousel (11)
- Interviews (7)
- Legislation (36)
- Mental Health (55)
- News (190)
- Australia (8)
- Canada (16)
- Finland (1)
- France (3)
- Iceland (1)
- International (23)
- Ireland (43)
- Italy (4)
- New Zealand (5)
- Norway (1)
- Scotland (1)
- Spain (1)
- Sweden (2)
- Switzerland (1)
- The Netherlands (2)
- UK (36)
- USA (44)
- Wales (3)
- Ongoing Cases (12)
- Parenting (21)
- Press Releases (53)
- Schools (19)
- Sexuality (23)
- Uncategorized (221)
Tags
-
The Progressive Rebranding of Conversion Therapy
Early in my connection with the trans community, it struck me that almost everyone I encountered shared my struggles...
27th August 2025
-
Sore Loser
Imagine “Big Gender” as “Big Tobacco”. The following story is an allegorical response to a recent essay published in...
22nd August 2025
-
When Breast Binding Becomes Chicken Soup for the Autistic Soul
As a young teenager who believed herself to have been born in the wrong body, I had experimented with...
21st August 2025
-
The Journey Back to Me: A Story of Detransition
My story feels timeless in parts—love, loss, the ache to belong, and the wild imagination of 15-year-olds dreaming of...
14th August 2025
-
From Self-hate to Self-love
The Wedge After decades of unbearable gender torment, I transitioned from male to female so that I could finally...
5th August 2025
-
The Risks No One Talks About
In the second of three articles, a Virginia Parent writes about the things she wishes she’d known…. In late...
28th July 2025
-
Fueling Obsessions
It is well-documented that a large number of people who identify as trans have been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder...
8th July 2025
-
What I Am Jazz Doesn’t Tell Kids
I’ve always loved kids. I have a gift for seeing the world through their eyes, getting down to their...
5th June 2025
-
The Narrative Around Affirming Parents Doesn’t Tell the Full Story
We have all seen the photo: a mother stands proudly beside her child, grinning with one arm around her...
20th May 2025
-
Embracing the Uncomfortable
What changes when we turn towards uncomfortable truths rather than turning away? I have the opportunity to hear about...
6th May 2025
-
Listening to the Silenced: Genspect’s Mission for Thoughtful, Honest Care
At Genspect, we believe real support begins with listening, not lecturing. We’re an international organisation committed to evidence-based approaches to...
29th April 2025
-
Notes on a Detransition: Fetish Scene Abuse, Dissociation, and the Formation of a Trans Identity
(Content warning: This article contains references to extreme sexual violence, abuse and rape.) Victoria G’s disturbing account of how...
3rd April 2025
-
Genspect’s Submission to the OED
Dear Editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, The verb “detransition” has already earned its place in the OED, but...
11th March 2025
-
Words as Mirrors: Why “Detransitioner” Deserves a Place in Our Lexicon
I have always been a word geek. Language is not just a tool; it is a lens. In my...
11th March 2025
-
Nobody Passes as Themselves
A detransition storyThere is a certain kind of gender transition story that people like to hear. It is a story of...
20th February 2025
-
Momentum: Help bring more detransitioners to Capitol Hill!
Simply Amazing It would take a heart of stone not to smile at the sight of a room full...
10th February 2025
-
More Than a Women’s Issue
I am a licensed therapist who discovered how extremely wrong gender affirmative therapy is simply because it became so...
4th February 2025
-
Holding the Space for Exploratory Therapy with Gender-Questioning Clients
The Cass Review for the UK NHS has sharpened wider awareness of the ongoing controversy over exploratory therapy for...
26th May 2024
-
Where are the Lawsuits?
“I hear people all the time saying, bring on the lawsuit. Well, okay, but—easier said than done.” America is...
22nd May 2024
-
Escaping Masculinity
I learned to associate everything negative in this world with men and masculinity. Women were associated with love, peace,...
9th May 2024
-
A Practical Response to Gender Distress: A Review
Review of A Practical Response to Gender Distress, by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger LCSW, MS Oh, how I wish I had this...
22nd April 2024
-
Circumcision and the Medicalization of Sex
Conforming to the norms of gender has long been the motivation for harmful medical interventions on young people I...
16th April 2024
-
Broken Crayons
A message from the artist: From a very young age I felt incredibly broken. I transitioned when I was...
12th March 2024
-
Adult, Female, Detrans and Angry
Genspect will be holding a free webinar for Detrans Awareness Day on Tuesday March 12th at 7pm EST. Please...
12th March 2024
-
Poetry by a detransitioner
USED When changes stopped feeling new I started to miss when I was a kid And the pain, it...
12th March 2024
-
The Divine Feminine
The artist says this piece represents her represents her deep connection to the divine feminine impulse and being female...
12th March 2024
-
To the “Gender-Affirming” People Who Lied to Me
To: The “Gender-Affirming” People Who Lied to Me From: a Candid Realist The most painful part of detransitioning was...
12th March 2024
-
We Need to Complexify Our Understanding of Transition and Detransition
I spoke with Keira Bell about Detrans Awareness Day and the challenges facing people who stop the process of...
12th March 2024
-
The Year I Turned 24
On March 5, 2014, I got top surgery. I had been out as trans for nine months, and on...
12th March 2024
-
Normal Feelings
The comic strip illustrates how normal feelings are often misinterpreted as indicators of a trans identity. Genspect will be...
12th March 2024
-
A Young Woman and a Crocodile
This piece was submitted by a detransitioned woman. She painted it as a way of dealing with an assault...
12th March 2024
-
To My Fellow Detransitioners
It has been two and a half years since I posted a video online expressing that the transgender path...
11th March 2024
-
Integrate
This is an AI-assisted work of art by Lee Hazel. You can find her on X @LeeForWomen.
11th March 2024
-
The WPATH Files Revealed
The WPATH Files are leaked internal conversations that were sent to Michael Shellenberger last year. Michael worked on these...
5th March 2024
-
Detransition Awareness Day 2024
March 12th marks an important day in the calendar—Detransition Awareness Day. This annual observance serves a crucial purpose: it...
28th February 2024
