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Detransitioners
While detransitioning is rare in the first place, it is overwhelmingly driven by various forms of descrimination, not uncertainty with regards to identity.
- National Center for Transgender Equality: U.S. Transgender Survey 15
- “De-transitioned” is defined as having “gone back to living as [one’s] sex assigned at birth, at least for a while.”
- Note that this isn’t just about people who detransition permanently, it also includes people who, socially or medically, reverted their transition temporarily.
- Under this broad definition, only 8% of respondents reported having de-transitioned at some point.
- 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.
- Other, more prominent reasons include:
- Pressure from a parent (36%)
- Discrimination and harassment after beganing to transition (31%)
- Trouble with getting a job (29%)
- Pressure from other family members (26%)
- Pressure from spouse or partner (18%)
- Pressure from an employer (17%)
- Pressure from friends (13%)
- Pressure from a mental health professional (5%)
- Pressure from a religious counselor (5%)
- Financial reasons (3%)
- Medical reasons (2%)
- “De-transitioned” is defined as having “gone back to living as [one’s] sex assigned at birth, at least for a while.”
- Note about the survey report:
- “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”