This is going to be an unpopular post, but: as trans and queer people, we need to be more accepting of detransitioners/retransitioners who are not transphobic.
For several years, I thought I was a detransitioner. It turns out that I was just a plural system and didn't know about it (we'd had a switch in main fronters in my median system from a genderfluid person to a cis girl).
To me, it seemed like my identity had changed. All I knew was that I'd used to think I was trans and now thought I was a cis person.
It was really hard to have trans people tell me, over and over, that they believed everyone had the right to self identify, but I didn't. They believed everyone had the right to bodily autonomy, but I didn't. They believed everyone had the right not to be misgendered, but I didn't.
My partner and a few friends stood by me and I had to watch the rest of my friends leave. Any new trans people that I met during that time wanted nothing to do with me, leaving me extremely isolated and alone. Terfs knew this and reached out to me many times to try to get me on their side.
All this, and I *wasn't even detrans*. Most trans people think they're cis at some point in their lives. All other detrans people I met during this time were queer and were using that label for reasons like going from identifying as a binary trans person to identifying as non-binary.
We need to allow everyone the right to identify as whatever gender they feel best fits them. We need to allow everyone the opportunity to experiment with gender, to change their gender labels, and to be wrong about their genders. This includes if people go from identifying as trans to identifying as cis.











