Detransition is rare, but it’s driving anti-trans policy anyway

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/detransition-anti-transgender-policies

Busting the myths around transition regret and detransition | Xtra Magazine

How many people regret their decision to receive gender-affirming care? Do people who detransition always regret their transitions?

Xtra Magazine
Anti-trans detransitioner ordered to pay $40,000 in failed lawsuit against doctors - LGBTQ Nation

She said she was wrong about being trans and now wants her doctors to pay. The judge threw her case out.

LGBTQ Nation
Readers Deserve Better Than Misinformation About Trans Care; A Response To Pamela Paul

In a recent response to our articles criticizing misinformation in Pamela Paul's article on detransitioners, Pamela Paul dismisses us and our work. Evan Urquhart and I respond to the latest piece.

Erin In The Morning
Beleaguered World Health Organization Wades Into Transgender Debate and Is Met With Uproar Over Plans To Develop Guidelines on Trans Healthcare

Just as WHO emerges from years of controversy over its Covid policies, the United Nations agency has now stepped into the thorniest and most politicized…

The New York Sun
The truth about transgender people

Thousands of people have changed their sex, and a huge majority report their well-being has improved substantially as a result.

The Washington Post

While someone being misdiagnosed as #transgender is rare, it still happens. This is exactly why it’s important for mental-health providers to learn how to better understand their transgender patients, instead of trying to limit or ban access to gender-affirming medical care.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-harmful-narrative-around-detransitioning-07329afdde10?sk=3b1531c0ee2f1c34960212cc1407b808

#LGBTQ #Detransitioners #HealthCare #MentalHealth

Most detransitioners don’t stop HRT out of regret, study suggests

A study has suggested that detransitioners stop gender-affirming care for many reasons – not simply due to transitional regret.

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Your favorite anti-trans pseudoscience is back but now it’s just sad - INTO

An anti-trans pseudoscience-based paper has come back from the dead to spread disinformation and hate once again.

INTO

For transgender people, healthcare providers and researchers, detransition is often a taboo topic. For those opposed to gender-affirming care, detransition is a scandal to be weaponized. And for those who detransition, it’s a lived experience β€” one that can lead to rejection, isolation and neglect.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/how-de-transphobia-harms-both-trans-and-detrans-people-500659524820?sk=fde4c8897b31ff61f30c70ab73178669

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Detransitioners #Transphobia #Medicine #Interview