Note: These demands are adapted from the original demands published by Trans Safety Network on November 4th, which were licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0. Most content is the same, as we share the same… Read More »The BBC has failed trans people: HLN joins call for investigation following the #BBCCoverUp
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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.
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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?”
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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.