By: Cecil C. Cecil C. is a detrans woman who began talking about their experiences with transitioning, detransitioning, and gender identity in late 2021. Their focus is on conceptualizing detrans identity free of anti-trans framing… Read More »Contested Terms, Contested Identities: On the Importance of “Detrans” Language
Health Liberation Now! is excited to share an exclusive profile of our advocacy work in Xtra Magazine. Written by Misha Falk, a freelance writer and community organizer from Winnipeg, the piece guides readers through the… Read More »Health Liberation Now! is challenging the way anti-trans groups weaponize detransition narratives
On June 15th, New York Times Magazine published a feature article titled “The Battle Over Gender Therapy.” As some of the individuals interviewed for this piece, we hold grave concerns for the framing of the… Read More »Health Liberation Now!’s Response to NYT Article “The Battle Over Gender Therapy”
Contact: Lee Leveille Co-Developer, Health Liberation Now! Email: lee@healthliberationnow.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Easthampton, Massachusetts – It is with immense grief that we at Health Liberation Now witness the recent opinion put out by Texas Attorney… Read More »Position Statement on Medical Disinformation Targeting Trans Youth and Health Care
We’re pleased to share this call for participants by the Canada Research Chair on Transgender Children and Their Families, which has recently opened up for a second round of interviews. This is an international research… Read More »Research Opportunity: Youth who have discontinued gender transition (aged 15 to 25)
Note: We are looking to connect with trans academics or researchers to develop a formal response to this paper. If this sounds like you, you can contact us here.
Update 10.23.2021: For the compilation of this analysis and future work, we retain a copy of the original questionnaire in full. This information has been confirmed to be legitimate by Lisa Littman. We are releasing the transcript of the questionnaire to the public in the interest of open science. Full screenshot verification can be provided directly to interested, reputable researchers and academics. Enormous thanks to Mallory Moore for dedicating the time to compile this for us.
Lisa Littman, a US-based researcher famed for popularizing “rapid onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD), recently released a new paper on detransition titled Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners.[1] Analysis of the paper, its questionnaire, and its recruitment pool reveals a number of methodological and factual errors. The errors demonstrate a clear attempt to find support for the existence of ROGD. In actuality, the data collected contradicts Littman’s conclusions and, in the process, identifies a key shift in the political climate on trans health when ideological detransition emerged as a narrative.
Read More »Littman Tries to Prove ROGD by Surveying Detransitioners, Fails Spectacularly
Content notes: discussion of conversion practices (both secular and faith-based), suicidal ideation, child kidnapping, pedophilia, and child abuse.
Disclaimer: This piece is published by advocates in the name of public interest. It should not be construed as legal advice. If you’re from the US and need legal or other supports related to conversion practices, you can find information at Born Perfect.
Ideologically motivated detransitioned activists joined forces over the summer with leaders of ex-LGBT ministries to target class action suits demanding equitable health coverage for trans people in Arizona. Filing an amicus brief on July 7th,[1] notable figures such as Keira Bell, Sinéad Watson, and Carol Freitas collaborated with Kathy Grace Duncan of Portland Fellowship, a group that has been under fire for practicing faith-based conversion therapy on gay and trans people.[2] The brief was filed alongside one from Society for Evidence Based Medicine (SEGM), whose membership is closely linked with conversion therapy groups and practitioners.[3] The collective effort signals an organized attempt to undermine access to gender affirming care in ways that leave both trans and detrans people with limited medical or psychological support, all while conversion efforts towards trans people are on the rise.
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By: Eli K., she’s in detransition
After a long and complicated gender journey, Eli started a blog on her detransition experiences in early 2020. Raising her voice as a counternarrative to the anti-trans rhetoric surrounding detransition stories, her criticism is aimed at the pathologization of transition-related healthcare needs as well as the legal situation of transgender people in Germany, where she resides. You can find her on Twitter (@shesindetrans) and Instagram (@eli_kaputniza).
What it actually was that pushed me over the edge and made me think I might go without testosterone “for a while”, “just to try”, I can’t say. The questions would just pop up in my head sometimes – eventually, I was even thinking them while being sober.
“What if? What could go wrong?”
Read More »You Can’t Live Off Other People’s Good Intentions Alone
I saw the ophthalmologist yesterday.
This is a point of struggle for me. My relationship with eye doctors, like all doctors, is a bit precarious. That’s always the case when you’re disabled or trans but especially when you are both. Even more so if you’re both, have a tendency to do obnoxious amounts of background research, and pair that all with self-advocacy. Many times, doctors don’t know what to do with you if you’re disabled or trans, and they really don’t know what to do if you’re the uppity one. Of which I can be.
Doctors and I have been doing The Dance since I was a child. Something goes wrong, (maybe) try to find out what it is, can’t or it seems like too much trouble, blow it off. I had finally started making some headway on this, securing real answers and successful treatments (of which T was one), until my vision loss struck. Then the cycle continued, particularly since said vision loss seemed to correlate with stopping T in the spring to early summer of 2019.
Unfortunately, stopping T isn’t the only thing it correlated with. It also happened in the thick of when I was first trying to build bridges with the detransitioned community. I wanted to better understand what their medical needs were, learn how to be more supportive, and mutually create a better system where the material needs of both of our communities were getting met.
It didn’t go well.
Originally published on Reclaiming Trans
Denise C, the founder of FourthWaveNow, corresponded with detransitioned radical feminists before she started her Tumblr and WordPress blogs. This correspondence took place between December 26th-27th 2014. Denise started her blogs in March of 2015.
Below are emails between Denise and Devorah Zahav, the detrans woman who blogs as Redress Alert. Zahav is a very important figure in the radical feminist detrans women’s community. In addition to writing a popular and influential blog, she engaged in much detrans organizing and activism, including helping to create the first online spaces for detrans and re-identified women and organizing the first in-person gatherings. She played a very influential role in creating the detrans radical feminist community and spreading a transphobic feminist interpretation of detransitioning and detrans womanhood.Read More »Early Correspondence Between A Detrans Radical Feminist and the Founder of FourthWaveNow