I am going to be spending next week with family members who are very vocal about their feelings on the transgender community. Where/how can find resources to educate myself? I know the topic will come up and I would like prepare myself somewhat.
I am going to be spending next week with family members who are very vocal about their feelings on the transgender community. Where/how can find resources to educate myself? I know the topic will come up and I would like prepare myself somewhat.
Detransitioning stats can be a bit hard to get because of how easy it is to do depending on how far you have transitioned. For example for me, I’m pre-HRT so if I was to detransitioning it would involve cutting my hair, stop shaving my body hair, changing clothes and changing my name back. I, or anyone else in a similar situation, would never be caught in a survey looking at detransitioning.
And, surprise transphobes, not everything is supper permanent. Most things are pretty easily reversible. Even after HRT a lot of the changes are reversible. They just take more effort. The only things I’m aware of that are not very reversible are surgeries. Whichs why someone is usually pretty far along in transition before the medical community allows you to get one.
As for the actual numbers:
Adding on to this, you can find stats about high rates of “desistence” among children and youth with GID© diagnoses (I’m not sure what that become in DSM-V when GID became “Gender Dysphoria”). However, these stats need to be understood in the context of what the criteria for GID© are–they’re incredibly broad. Any mildly gender-non-conforming child can fit the criteria if their parents dislike their gender non-conformity (there’s a quasi-conspiracy theory that it was a backdoor to “treating” “pre-homosexual” kids after the removal of homosexuality from the DSM). It’s no shock that most of these kids don’t grow up to be trans–they mostly weren’t making a statement about their gender identity in the first place!
So a bit off topic but I found it interesting. I was looking for what GID stood for, gender identity disorder, and ran into an article discussing the DSM-V debat in changing the diagnosis.
I loved this little quote: