Segment of an email sent by Carey Callahan on February 8 2017 to detransitioned radical feminists.
Text reads:
Subject: detransition panel slides
From: Maria Catt
Date: 2/8/17, 12:32
To: crash yrwurld [CENSORED] max robinson [CENSORED]
Hi friends,
(Crash, Max, and [CENSORED] are on this email, I thought about blind copying, and then I was like, yeah, but we all know each other.)
So USPATH was way crazier than I thought it would be. The panel seemed like it went really well, but the rest of the presentations were so over the top unnerving and scary. I don’t know how I’m going to write about it. The people I went with (Lisa Marchiano and Lisa Littman) are in contact with a couple of reporters to get what was said at those other presentations out into the public consciousness.
I wanted you all to be able to see the full presentation, but the videos aren’t attached and that means you can’t see [CENSORED]’s video, because unlike you he hasn’t put it online. He didn’t really say much different from what you all said- I think he talked a little about being bullied, and then a little bit about how gender ideology was harmful to women. All the videos were so radical! It was so great!
Just to warn you, my slides are decidedly un-radical. I was trying to talk as a therapist to therapists. I hope I didn’t let you down. Lisa Marchiano told me I should keep the slides off of the internet because she thinks I could write an article and submit it to counseling journals on applying the Kubler-Ross model of mourning to detransition.
I can’t thank you three enough. IT WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUR FACES TO BE SHOWN TO THESE PEOPLE. You know, I look like a gender sell out, and it was so important for them to see this wasn’t about ladies looking compliant. I have some slides at the end of my section about the many ways detransitioned women relate to norms of femininity, and specifically how that relates to therapists reacting to how we look.