Reasons why people detransition 🧵:
(Non exhaustive list)
-health issues related to dangerous & experimental medical interventions
-social/dating difficulties related to fighting one’s biological sex
-realizing they were fed lies by doctors
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(Non exhaustive list)
-health issues related to dangerous & experimental medical interventions
-social/dating difficulties related to fighting one’s biological sex
-realizing they were fed lies by doctors
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-the realization that fighting biology is dangerous in the long term even if medical consequences haven’t set in yet.
- realizing that gender ideology is built on a stack of lies.
-realizing that sex is immutable and attempts to fight it are dangerous
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- realizing that gender ideology is built on a stack of lies.
-realizing that sex is immutable and attempts to fight it are dangerous
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-recovering from a mental health crisis and regaining a clarity of mind
-growing up and realizing the full weight of the consequences of attempts to ‘change sex’
-realizing that cosmetic surgeries don’t solve complex distress & mental health problems
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-growing up and realizing the full weight of the consequences of attempts to ‘change sex’
-realizing that cosmetic surgeries don’t solve complex distress & mental health problems
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-leaving the trans community due to its incredibly toxicity and authoritarianism, and then realizing that there is no social benefit to continue transition
-loss of singing voice
-loss of important body parts you were brainwashed into seeing as ‘optional accessories’
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-loss of singing voice
-loss of important body parts you were brainwashed into seeing as ‘optional accessories’
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-Finding another religion, typically something organized which celebrates the wholeness and interconnectedness of the human body AND therefore frowns upon removal of healthy body parts (unlike the trans religion)
-Financial costs of endless medicalization
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-Financial costs of endless medicalization
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-the desire to make peace with oneself without having big pharma in the picture
-becoming dissilusioned with trans activism
-becoming dissilusioned with the political/ideological beliefs which incentivized or normalized transition
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-becoming dissilusioned with trans activism
-becoming dissilusioned with the political/ideological beliefs which incentivized or normalized transition
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-wanting to have kids
-hitting ‘rock bottom’ and having real life problems to contend with, and realizing that transition stands in the way of being able to solve them
-a desire to stop thinking of your past as “dead”
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-hitting ‘rock bottom’ and having real life problems to contend with, and realizing that transition stands in the way of being able to solve them
-a desire to stop thinking of your past as “dead”
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- A non-affirming environment which refuses to collude in someone’s identity which is predicated upon self-hatred, delusion, coercion or based on the obvious presence of secondary sex characteristics which make ‘passing’ impossible
-not passing
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-not passing
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-the incredible psychological burden of denying the existence of your past, and not being able to show friends your childhood photos because it would ‘give you away’
-the realization that your dysphoria has shifted from one body part to the next with every intervention
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-the realization that your dysphoria has shifted from one body part to the next with every intervention
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- discovering (the hard way) that there’s a REASON why you are distressed about your sexed body and that the reason is NOT that you were “born in the wrong body” (whatever that means)
-realizing that hormones, surgery, binding &tucking aren’t fu*king costume changes
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-realizing that hormones, surgery, binding &tucking aren’t fu*king costume changes
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-realizing that removal of healthy and functional body parts creates far more problems than it solves
-getting a diagnosis of autism, ADHD or any other neurodevelopmental condition and suddenly understanding WHY you ACTUALLY feel different
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-getting a diagnosis of autism, ADHD or any other neurodevelopmental condition and suddenly understanding WHY you ACTUALLY feel different
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-experiencing such astounding cognitive dissonance when being exposed to gender critical content that it gives you the most massive HEADACHE of your life- and actually trying to resolve the cognitive dissonance through critical thought.
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- Realizing that the categories of “man” & “woman” are defined simply by age and biology- NOT by fashion preferences, haircuts, hobbies or interests
-realizing that you no longer want to take part in a movement which endangers the futures & bodies of vulnerable populations
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-realizing that you no longer want to take part in a movement which endangers the futures & bodies of vulnerable populations
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-realizing that there’s no such thing as being “born in the wrong body”
-realizing that being tied to the pharmaceutical industry is incredibly impractical do, especially when your gonads are healthy and don’t need to be removed
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-realizing that being tied to the pharmaceutical industry is incredibly impractical do, especially when your gonads are healthy and don’t need to be removed
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-realizing you are in a body modification cult and wanting to leave
-realizing it is unhealthy to spend so much of your life fixating on the ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of specific body parts which are objectively and materially parts of YOUR body
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-realizing it is unhealthy to spend so much of your life fixating on the ‘rightness’ or ‘wrongness’ of specific body parts which are objectively and materially parts of YOUR body
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-Realizing that there’s no need to punish yourself for being gay because there is NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU
-realizing that sex is a material reality & not an immaterial feeling
-you stopped playing video games and realized that your physical body matters
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-realizing that sex is a material reality & not an immaterial feeling
-you stopped playing video games and realized that your physical body matters
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-Realizing that your embodiment of your own self-hatred harms younger siblings or family members who may try to imitate you
-You’ve become only MORE su!c!dal because of transition
-Realizing there are less invasive ways to treat sex dysphoria/gender incongruence
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-You’ve become only MORE su!c!dal because of transition
-Realizing there are less invasive ways to treat sex dysphoria/gender incongruence
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- listening to detransitioners’ accounts and having an “oh sh!t”moment.
-Experiencing one seed of doubt after the next over the course of months and years, but ignoring each one until some massive catalyst topples the entire house of cards
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-Experiencing one seed of doubt after the next over the course of months and years, but ignoring each one until some massive catalyst topples the entire house of cards
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