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## Detransitioners
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#### While detransitioning is rare in the first place, it is overwhelmingly driven by various forms of descrimination, not uncertainty with regards to identity.
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* [National Center for Transgender Equality: U.S. Transgender Survey 15](https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf)
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* “De-transitioned” is defined as having “gone back to living as [one’s] sex assigned at birth, **at least for a while**.”
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* Note that this isn’t just about people who detransition **permanently**, it also includes people who, socially or medically, reverted their transition **temporarily**.
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* Under this broad definition, **only 8%** of respondents reported having de-transitioned at some point.
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* Of these “detransitioners,” **only 5%** did it because they realized it was not for them, accounting for a **mere 0.4% of the overall sample.**
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* Other, more prominent reasons include:
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* Pressure from a parent (36%)
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* Discrimination and harassment after beganing to transition (31%)
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* Trouble with getting a job (29%)
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* Pressure from other family members (26%)
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* Pressure from spouse or partner (18%)
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* Pressure from an employer (17%)
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* Pressure from friends (13%)
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* Pressure from a mental health professional (5%)
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* Pressure from a religious counselor (5%)
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* Financial reasons (3%)
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* Medical reasons (2%)
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* Note about the survey report:
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* _“The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) is the **largest survey** examining the experiences of transgender people in the United States, with **27,715 respondents** from all fifty states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and U.S. military bases overseas”_
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