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just got a chance to read the detransition chapter of ryan anderson’s new book. absolutely disgusted to have had my work misappropriated by the heritage foundation’s homophobic goons. no permission was sought to use my original content, nor would it have been given.
“didn’t want to give up roller derby” is my favorite reason for detransition in that survey
Female detransition and reidentification: Survey results and interpretation
This survey was created for anyone female/AFAB who formerly self-described as transgender. This includes women who transitioned, whether socially and/or medically, and subsequently detransitioned, as well as individuals who still identify as nonbinary or genderfluid, but have desisted from medical or social transition.
The survey ran from August 16 to August 30, 2016 and was shared through Tumblr, Facebook groups, and on the Wordpress blog 4thWaveNow. Edited to add some clarification on the collection methods: The survey was posted on my Tumblr blog, with the tags “Detransition”, “FTM”, “Trans Man”, “Transgender”, and “Radical Feminism”. By using this method, the post was made available to any of Tumblr’s 550 million monthly users who browsed any one of those tags. While this does not remove bias from the following of this Tumblr blog, it mitigates it significantly. After removing several obviously fake responses and responses from individuals who had not stopped transition, the total response count was 203. Leaving aside all the other data this provides, the sheer number of responses is pretty amazing. Given that the survey was open for 2 weeks and was shared through a couple of Facebook groups, most of which were private, and Tumblr, I think we can safely say that detransitioners are not quite as rare as some would like to have us think. Other than that, there are a couple of points I’d like to elaborate on along with presenting the data.