DETRANSITION & REGRET
Support
Post Trans: A project giving space for female detransitioners and desisters to share their journeys.
Video – Launching: We Created a New Resource on Detransition – Post Trans Booklet
Other resources are listed here: detransawareness.org/resources
US non-profit group launched May 2023 detranshelp.org
Research article
Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey 30.04.21
Personal stories, articles and blogs
Sinead Watson Twitter thread on lack of help for detransitioners (pdf) 02.12.22
I’ve been betrayed by medics who left me in pain because I didn’t want to be gay, says detransitioner The Telegraph 22.10.22
Twitter thread by 19-year-old detransitioned woman who regrets double mastectomy 13.08.22
Twitter thread by Watson on the bullying of detransitioners like her 08.08.22
Detransitioners should sue the NHS The Critic 30.06.22
‘If I had gone through with a gender transition, I would have committed suicide’ The Telegraph 28.07.22
I was allowed to transition at 18 without question – but I regretted it The Telegraph 06.04.22
‘Becoming a man was a huge mistake – so why DID doctors allow me to do it?’ Mail 04.04.22
By Any Other Name – The story of my transition and detransition Helena Prude 19.02.22
Twitter thread about the effect of medical transition on the clitoris Sinead Watson 14.08.21
How Many Detransitioners Are Too Many? Pam Curtis 09.07.21
There’s No Standard for Care When it Comes to Trans Medicine Grace Lidinsky-Smith in Newsweek 25.06.21
Transition and Detransition: A conversation between sisters Transgender Trend 26.02.21
We Need Balance When It Comes To Gender Dysphoric Kids. I Would Know Scott Newgent in Newsweek 09.02.21
Double Mastectomy at 15, Detrans 16-Year-Old Now Seeks Reversal The Velvet Chronicle 10.07.21
The Detransitioners Laura Dodsworth 18.08.20
INTERVIEW: Sam, Nele, and Ellie transitioned as young women, living as ‘men’ before realizing they’d made a mistake Feminist Current 07.08.20
The detransitioners: what happens when trans men want to be women again? The Sunday Times 12.07.20
One Year Out – My story Thomasin Pick 22.05.20
Interview with Scott Newgent Graham Linehan 15.05.20
Ellie and Nele: From she to he – and back to she again BBC World Service 20.03.20
Did I make a big mistake? Reddit 22.03.20 archive
Speaking up for female eunuchs Helen Joyce 30.01.20
Detransitioners are living proof the practices surrounding ‘trans kids’ need be questioned Feminist Current 09.01.20
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why Lisa Marchiano 02.01.20
What if you regret transitioning? Julie Bindel 20.12.19
Medical Perspectives on Dysphoria and Detransition: Make More Noise Uncommon Ground 10.12.19
‘How do I go back to the Debbie I was?’ BBC 27.11.19
Video: Incredibly moving account from recently detransitioned Thomasin Pick on why she transgendered. 22.11.19
Detransitioners: Girls who became boys who want to be girls again Joani Walsh 19.11.19
1 Year After Sex Change, This Teen Regrets His ‘Frankenstein Hack Job’ Daily Signal 17.11.19
Meet the ‘detransitioners’: the women who became men – and now want to go back Telegraph 16.11.19
Sex-change sorrow The Sunday Times 10.11.19
Medical professionals should be blamed too. Twitter thread by @growinThroughIt 08.11.19
The Hard Questions About Young People and Gender Transitions Intelligencer 01.11.19
My Complete Transgender & Detransition Story Roman 29.10.19
Gender reassignment: I’m man enough to admit that it was a mistake The Sunday Times 13.10.19
Thomasin Pick, 19: Living in trans bubble increased my social anxiety 19.08.21
I Spent a Year as a Trans Man. Doctors Failed Me at Every Turn Daily Signal 07.10.19
A Journey from Trans* to ‘T*RF’ Charlie Evans 27.09.19
Here’s What People Who Used To Be Transgender Are Telling The Supreme Court The Federalist 30.09.19
The medicalization of gender non conforming children, and the vulnerability of lesbian youth. Charlie Evans 08.09.19
Talking About Talking to Doctors (detransition story) Carey Callaghan 26.08.19
Sex is a fact Detransition stories from young Finnish women 2019
Living in trans bubble increased my social anxiety Thomasin Pick 03.08.19
27-year-old man regrets having surgery Sex Change Regret July 2019
Talking About Talking to Doctors Carey Callaghan 26.08.19
From the ashes: Butch lesbian & her family rebuild life after transition Carol F. 14.07.19
I thought I was transgender TradFem 15.06.19
Dagny on social media, gender dysphoria, ‘trans youth,’ and detransitioning Feminist Current 04.06.19
FTM Regret transition, intensely lonely and need someone to talk to Reddit 01.05.19
The Game Plan for when Transition Hasn’t Worked Out Carey Callahan 21.04.19
The trans train – Swedish documentary raising concerns about the rise in transitioning girls. Upsetting. Here is Part Two
Hormones, surgery, regret: I was a transgender woman for 8 years — time I can’t get back Walt Heyer 11.02.19
Mistaken identity Julie Bindel 23.05.19
I’m a Transman Who’s Detransitioning. Here’s Why. Reclaiming Trans Butch 21.01.19
A Letter To Young Trans People Leanne Mills 16.01.19
Transition as Treatment: The Best Studies Show the Worst Outcomes Woman Means Something 11.01.19
30 Transgender Regretters Come Out Of The Closet The Federalist 03.01.19
‘I’m still a man’ says transsexual woman who has a warning for those considering a sex change Nottinghamshire Live 01.01.19
9 Transgender Patients Complain Of Mutilation, Botched Sex-Change Surgeries In Oregon The Federalist 06.12.18
‘I transitioned from female to male, then realised I had made a mistake’ Telegraph 20.11.18
Why is it so threatening for parents & detransitioners/desisters to speak about transgender identity being a temporary occurrence? Twitter thread by @dogcalledbambi 10.11.18
When Girls Won’t Be Girls Charlie McCann 16.10.18
Detransitioned man blasts “transworld” 4th Wave Now 05.05.18
An open letter to the medical profession More rote than meaning blog 19.11.17
Gender Reversal Surgery is more in demand than ever before Spectator 3.10.17
I’m detransitioning September 2017
How My ‘Sex Change’ Was Doomed to Fail from the Start Walt Heyer 24.08.17
A “sinister mental trap”: One man’s journey back to himself 22.04.17
“A Tear in the Ocean”: The Final Days of Alexis Arquette Hollywood Reporter 13.09.16
Detransitioning: Going From Male To Female To Male Again vocativ 15.06.15
Female detransition and reidentification: Survey results and interpretation
Feminists, wake up – gender is not a feeling
First cut is the deepest but reversal also traumatic for trans community Janet Albrechtson
From girl to boy and back again, Zahra Cooper shares her journey New Zealand Herald
FTMTF Lady Antitheist
I might detransition video by Rya Jones
I regret transitioning Anonymous, Guardian
‘I will never be able to have sex again. Ever’ The Sydney Morning Herald
Interview with a Detransitioned MtF Youth Trans Critical Professionals
Non binary identity aka not fitting in with the popular clique Purple Sage
On Sex Change Regret Stella Morabito
Real-Life Victims of the Transgender ‘Cult’ PJ Media
Retransition Rethinking “Trans” : Transgender detransition / retransition (blog)
Sex change doctor guilty of misconduct Guardian May 2007
Sex Change Regret Walt Heyer’s blog
Stop Referring to Medically Transitioned People as “Mutilated” A discussion on Tumblr
The Coming Trans Medical Backlash The American Conservative
The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren’t Katie Herzog
The new taboo: More people regret sex change and want to ‘detransition’, surgeon says National Post
The top London lawyer who’s changed gender THREE times Daily Mail
Transgender Surgery: Regret rates highest in Male-to-Female Reassignment Operations Newsweek (WARNING: Contains a vid with Caitlyn Jenner which autoplays)
‘Transition caused more problems than it solved’ Elan Anthony, Guardian
Transition is no casual matter, and we need to talk about those who regret it Thain Parnell
Trouble In Transtopia: Murmurs Of Sex Change Regret The Federalist
What I Needed: An Open Letter to Therapists from a Detransitioner Maria Catt aka Carey Callahan
What Two Former Trans Want You To Know About All The Lies The Federalist
Writing thoughts to get them out of my head as I detransition gender. Ported from Twitter Trans Regret
An Open Letter to Julia Serano from One of the Detransitioned People You Claim to “Support” by crashchaoscats 08.08.16
Detransitioning: Going From Male To Female To Male Again vocativ 15.06.15
Lost in Transition
The blog of detransitioned woman Jay Langadinos
Jesse Singal article
This one is long and has provoked a massive angry backlash:
When Children Say They’re Trans Jesse Singal
It is accompanied by a video featuring Carey Callahan, who is mentioned in the screenshot of Jade’s quote above: Reversing a gender transition
And here’s a related piece:
Why must trans activists smear those who put forth inconvenient narratives about ‘gender identity’? Meghan Murphy
James Caspian
By James Caspian
My battle with the transgender thoughtpolice James Caspian 22.02.19
‘Why are we so scared to admit many people regret changing their gender? The Sunday Telegraph17.02.19
Fifty trans people tell therapist of regrets The Sunday Times 10.02.19
Dispute over ‘detransition’ study heads for High Court The Times 07.02.19
Youtube videos
Words of wisdom from radical feminist Peachy Yogurt Detransition: where trans support stops
and some from Blaire White: Detransitioning, regret and going back.
A Dutch TV documentary: Transgender Regret
Females
“My Life Felt Ruined” – Talk w/ Detransitioned Woman Blaire White 26.05.21
“I Regret Transitioning” – Talk w/ Teen De-transitioner Blaire White and Elle Palmer 21.01.20
Why I detransitioned, and why I’m talking about it now. Laura
Internalized Homophobia is More Powerful than You Know – Interview with Thomasin a Detrans Woman
DETRANSITION Q&A (#1) Helena, Jesse, Dagny and Chiara of the Pique Resilience Project,
Detransition & Self Acceptance: Interview with Chiara
Roshaante Anderson – not detransitioning but regrets on transitioning after 9 years on T.
Males
Transgender boy transitioning to life as girl changes his mind
Walt Heyer speaking on a Heritage Foundation platform
Want My Sex Back: Transgender people who regretted changing sex (RT Documentary) with Billy Burleigh, Walt Heyer and Rene Jax.