Regrets

Yeah, so we do have regrets but it is only a couple of percentage points which is a lot less than other medical procedures.

‘Transgender Regret’ Is Rare… But Real
Health Line
By Constance Gustke
October 24, 2017

Some people who change genders at a young age decide they’ve made a mistake and switch back. Experts say parents play a key role in this decision-making process.

Changing genders can be difficult.

There are lots of unseen challenges along the way, especially in battling stigmas.

In fact, some people who do transition to the opposite sex at a young age may end up thinking they’ve made a mistake when they get older.

So they revert back to their original gender.

Some have labeled this reversal “transgender regret.”
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But after transitioning, Cooper felt depressed and angry and tried to kill herself two times.

In the United States, though, gender reversals like Cooper’s are rare, according to experts.

And children who want to transition to another gender usually have checks and balances along the way to guide them, experts add.

The thing to remember is…

However, there are no biological markers for gender dysphoria, said Dr. Wylie Hembree, a retired endocrinologist in New York who helped write the first guidelines for transgender treatment.

So the only thing to go by is us, how we feel and how we express ourselves, it takes a good therapist who guides and doesn’t lead.

The other thing to remember is that it is also the environment, is it hostile? Are the parents supportive? Are they being harassed and bullied at school? Is their religion saying that they are damned and going to hell?

So the best way to transition is having strong community, family, therapist, and even church support, she added.

People can even choose trans-friendly colleges that may offer hormone services.

Supportive parents can also greatly reduce a teen’s risk of suicide, according to research.
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Other tips include connecting a child with resources, supporting self-expression, and celebrating diversity.

So just because they detransition doesn’t mean that they are not trans all it means is that transition is not for them.

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Last night I went to LGBTQ+ History Trivia and Dinner at the Simsbury library. The trivia questions came from the book “Queer, There, and Everywhere.”

One of the reasons I went was to see if there were any trans questions and there were.

The team that I was on did miserably, the children from True Colors rocked! But then they read the book and the team that I was on didn’t.