They Don’t Call It Gender Dysphoria For Nothing!

There is a pretty good reason why it is called Gender Dysphoria, dysphoria is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a state of feeling very unhappy, uneasy, or dissatisfied.”

Darling of the “detransition” movement comes out again as transgender

She tried to "do everything to make these feelings go away," but the only thing that worked "was accepting them."

LGBTQ Nation

By Greg Owen 

November 1, 2022

Like the ex-gay movement that rose to prominence in the early 2000s and then came crashing down as leaders recanted their “conversions,” the detransition movement is showing similar signs of a crack-up.

Ky Schevers is just one of the prominent voices of the detransition movement to reconsider her choice to reject her gender evolution and publicly denounce transition. She began her transition in college but ended it after coming to the belief that gender dysphoria was a false idea caused by misogyny and trauma, a theory she shared widely in interviews and online.

Now Schevers – who is transmasculine and uses she/her pronouns – has regrets about her place in the detrans movement. From 2013 to 2020, she regularly wrote and made videos about her detransition. She was featured in several major publications – even interviewed by anti-trans journalist Katie Herzog – to promote the idea that transgender identity isn’t legitimate and that gender dysphoria was a mix of internalized sexism and trauma response for her.

But now she’s speaking out against the movement she once supported.

I know probably around 4 or 5 people who “detransitioned” and a number of them re-transitioned and a few who continue crossdressing. One detransitioned because they couldn’t find a job and they went back and is living with their parents. One person that I know detransitioned  because of the stress at work and because of her family pressures but she retrainsitioned. Another went off of Cross Gender Hormones and now crossdresses.

Schevers said the detransition movement she helped spark became overtly transphobic and repressive and left no room for doubt or questioning individuals.

While she came to believe her own gender dysphoria was in check, it came roaring back over time. “My sense of being a woman unraveled, and I was feeling more like a dude or a gender weirdo,” Schevers said. “But I was fighting against these feelings because I’d built a life in the detransition community, and I knew a lot of the other women in the community wouldn’t be happy with it if I came out as trans.”

It could be family pressures. It could be religious pressures. It could be work related pressure. Or it could be that they just realized that transitioning was for them. It doesn’t mean that they don’t have gender dysphoria, it just means that it has manifested to a different stage.

Schevers says of her own dysphoria, “I tried to explain it in a radical feminist framework, and find the root causes, and do everything to make these feelings go away, and that didn’t really work. The only thing that did work to make them go away was accepting them. I had to make a move to accept them.”

It never goes away, it just takes different forms.