Detrans Starter Pack

OUR GOALS

- to provide support for our community

- to give new detransitioners hope for a future after transition that includes joy and satisfaction

- to promote solidarity between the trans and detrans communities in order to share resources and so that detransitioning is no longer treated as “betraying” our trans siblings

RESOURCES NEEDED / HOW TO HELP

we currently need information on the following

- which insurances cover detrans healthcare (ex. top surgery for detrans men) and where they are

- which name (and legal gender) change resources also serve detrans people

- discounts for laser hair removal

- detrans friendly support groups around transitioning to another gender

- hotlines/helplines

MTG’s bill to make providing transition services to minors a felony (of course including a provision to exempt those who perform IGM on infants because of fucking course it has that provision) cites detransitioners who transitioned as minors as justification for making this a felony. Fuck you fuck you fuck you. I don’t want to prove you right. I hate her. I hate this.

i think you should focus on what would make you specifically comfortable in your body.

it sucks that transphobic assholes use us as an excuse to take away the rights of others, but that doesn't mean our suffering helps our transgender siblings. you aren't proof, you're a goddamn person with your own needs.

I don’t know where to go.

Maybe I shouldn’t call it a detransition. I mean, I still consider myself somewhat genderqueer. But I took steps in transition that I didn’t want, that I regret, and that I’m trying to reverse. Isn’t that usually how detrans is defined?

I know how you feel. It sucks that it’s hard to find each other because of people who fetishize us and people who have gone down a right-wing pipeline.

When I personally talk about "detrans people", I mean all detransgender people regardless of detransition status and not all detransitioners regardless of personal identity the same way that "trans people" is generally used for all transgender people regardless of transition status and not all transitioners regardless of personal identity.

I believe that transgender people who are going back into the closet are gonna have different experiences with and feelings about detransition than someone who genuinely feels more comfortable/authentic transitioning towards their original sex/gender, and feel that trans-centric support/social groups would be better equipped for handling that.

However, detrans is most commonly used as shorthand for detransitioner and going back into the closet is one kind of detransition. The detrans spaces I've seen have been entirely accepting of them (and hopefully helpful).