Gee… I Didn’t Know

According to the Christian CBN News article we are dropping like flies.

They have an article about all the trans people who regret transitioning… Gee I only know two who de-transitioned and one of them re-transitioned and the one who stayed was because they couldn’t find a job and had to move back in with the wife’s parents out in the mid-west someplace.

In the article they interview one trans person who says that “he knows hundreds” of people who de-transitioned and they also talk to an author of a book who wrote about his de-transition 25 years ago. He writes… “he's been contacted by hundreds of transgender regretters as well.”

Wow! Hundreds of people!

From the studies that I read, real studies and not just anecdotal stories, yes people do de-transition but mostly because societal pressures to conform.

I know that I am against the trend but I do think that we need some therapy at sometime in our transition, not as gatekeepers but more introspective. I have seen so many trans people, some had an easy time and some faced strong societal pressures to conform that they couldn’t cope with

I know of one trans woman who wanted GCS NOW! She never went out in public but she wanted GCS, the therapist wouldn’t give her the letters so she forged the letters and went overseas. The last I saw of her was when she popped into the support group and said she had an appointment for surgery and “F**k You All” that was the last time that I saw her and I wished her luck.

In the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found…

II. De-Transitioning
Respondents were asked whether they had ever “de-transitioned,” which was defined as having “gone back to living as [their] sex assigned as birth, at least for a while.” Eight percent (8%) of respondents reported having de-transitioned at some point. Most of those who de-transitioned did so only temporarily: 62% of those who had de-transitioned reported that they were currently living full time in a gender different than the gender they were thought to be at birth.

Transgender women were more likely to report having de-transitioned (11%), in contrast to transgender men (4%). Rates of de-transitioning also differed by race and ethnicity, with American Indian (14%), Asian (10%), and multiracial (10%) respondents reporting the highest levels of de-transitioning.

Respondents who had de-transitioned cited a range of reasons, though only 5% of those who had de-transitioned reported that they had done so because they realized that gender transition was not for them, representing 0.4% of the overall sample. The most common reason cited for de-transitioning was pressure from a parent (36%). Twenty-six percent (26%) reported that they de-transitioned due to pressure from other family members, and 18% reported that they de-transitioned because of pressure from their spouse or partner. Other common reasons included facing too much harassment or discrimination after they began transitioning (31%), and having trouble getting a job (29%).

Of course those who have permanently de-transitioned probably would not have taken the survey.

But you can see from the study that the majority of those who de-transitioned at least for a time did so because societal pressures and only 0.4% because they didn’t feel that transitioning was not for them.

There have been some studies that report a de-transition rates as high as 80% but the major flaw in the studies is that they included those who left the study for any reason as de-transitioning.

So I label this article as suspicious, biased, and lacking any hard data.