FAQs
Transgender, detransitioners and gender dysphoria

Do you want to stop people from being transgender?

Not at all.

Imagine that you have discomfort in your chest, tell your doctors, and they immediately race you into Emergency and give you a very serious heart transplant….. It’s in the chest area after all…..

Ridiculous, right? A heart transplant is right for someone with severe heart failure, but not for someone with a broken rib.

Doctors should conduct some assessment to understand whether chest discomfort is related to indigestion or reflux (heartburn), breast cancer, anxiety attacks, angina, gallbladder or pancreas problems, injured ribs, sore muscles, a blood clot in the lung, collapsed lung, or high blood pressure, amongst others. Different issues require different treatment.

The gender dysphoria symptoms that detransitioners presented with, should have had a different treatment than the symptoms that transgender people present with. Unfortunately many doctors, psychologists and governments do not invest in differentiated treatment, and so consequently these detransitioners find that they had a range of inappropriate medical outcomes, including the unnecessary removal of their healthy, well-functioning breasts, penis, wombs, testicles etc. Transgender hormones and surgeries are serious medical interventions. It doesn't matter how skilled a doctor is at heart transplants, or that they tell you it worked for their patients. If your chest issues are caused by ongoing anxiety or a broken rib, the heart transplant will not solve your problem.

Doctors and governments need to respect that some people present with gender dysphoria symptoms that should lead down a transgender path, and some people present with gender dysphoria symptoms that should not lead down a transgender path.

Why does the List of Detransitioners website want to share detransitioner stories?

We want to improve access to important detransitioner stories.

Many brave detransitioners have spoken out but the stories are scattered across the internet - and it is truly a wide web. Unless you have a limitless supply of time on your hands, and digital skill, it is not easy to research and find all these brave stories. In the absence of seeing all these stories, it is easy to be dismissive that “there are not many detransitioners.”

The List of Detransitioners aims to make it easier to access these important stories by providing a list.

People suffering from gender dysphoria, and with similar symptoms, can gain insights from the stories of detranstioners.

Governments should consider the detransitioner stories and ensure that health and legal policies reflect the concerns of detransitioners and vulnerable people with gender dysphoria.

Doctors, psychologists and other health practitioners should consider the detransitioner stories so that they can provide patients with gender dysphoria with the highest levels of competence, integrity, candor, compassion and personal commitment to their best interest (the Hippocratic Oath).

What are the common themes in the stories told by detransitioners?

Common themes include:

The actions of governments, law makers, doctors, psychologists and surgeons are causing psychological and physical harm.
Detransitioners challenges around gender identity stem from deeply hidden trauma, including bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, violence, homophobia, a lack of social acceptance by not presenting as “stereotypically” male or female, being unprepared for puberty, or neurodivergences, such as aspergers and low social connection.
They should have had therapy to unpack this trauma; they should have been assured that the perpetrators behaviour was not acceptable.
Law makers, doctors, therapists and surgeons should not have encouraged them to change their gender identity, with very serious and invasive medical treatments, in order to escape the trauma associated with perpetrators.
People with gender dysphoria are vulnerable, and they rely heavily on the guidance of medical and health professionals.
Social media, including TikTok and Youtube influencers, glamorise the relief and joy that will come from being transgender. Algorithms on Dr Google steer vulnerable people to content that suggests that changing gender identity is the solution.
Adults on the internet are very active in grooming young people to believe that changing gender will solve all their problems.
The internet chat rooms and other sources are effective in schooling vulnerable people with gender dysphoria on how to “pass’ a test for transgender hormones.
Gender dysphoria is real. LIke any body dysmorphia, It is mental illness and you cannot treat it by affirming it. You do not treat someone with anorexia, who thinks they are obese, by telling them that they are fat and prescribing liposuction. You do not help someone who believes they are Napoleon, by greeting them as “Yes, General”.
Gender Ideology to a large extent follows the principles of cult behaviour.

The stories told by detransitioners are courageous and candid and we encourage you to read the stories of the detransitoners and to form your own common themes.

The List of Detransitioners on this website is not exhaustive. Does this prove there are very few detransitioners?

No, our speed in adding names is limited by volunteer resources - both people and money.

The number of detransitioners is large and, unfortunately, growing every day. We continuously add names to the List of Detransitioners.

Please keep coming back – the list will continuously grow. You can also help us add a Detransitioner and we appreciate help.

How does The List of Detransitioners decide which detransitioners to add?

We add all detransitioners that have a public story, and are identified in the media. If they have made their story public, they have been very courageous and have a desire to help others gain insights from their experience.

Transitioning and detransitioning is a very challenging health journey, and detransitioners often do not have the energy to be in the public eye. There are significantly more detransitioners that do not have public stories. We will also consider adding them, if they make themselves known to us.

Why are there more detranstioners from the US in this list?

The US has a large English speaking population.

You can help – connect with us and send us the link of a detransitioner that we should add to the list.

There are very few detransitioners – less than 1%. Is it bad to take focus away from transgender people when there are so few detransitioners?

“Less than 1%” is an incorrect statistic that is widely touted. But let’s not get into arguing statistics. Instead please consider: what is the appropriate number of people that it is ok to incorrectly maim, injure and mentally torture? 1 person? 100 people? 1,000 people? 1 million people?

As a progressive, enlightened society, we should never ask for positive outcomes for one group, at the expense of maiming and injuring another group.

All people deserve respect. All people deserve the right treatment for the right condition.

Can I send suggestions of detransitioners to add to the List?

Absolutely. Contact Us and send us a link to a public story that is in the media. You can also read about how to add a detransitioner name.

Do you hate trans people?

No.

FAQs Transgender, detransitioners and gender dysphoria