Meaning of detransition | Babel Free

Definitions

To revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.

intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“People detransition because they may find it difficult to get jobs, or because of social ostracism, not passing in their target gender, family responsibilities, and so on.”

“I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!”

““I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. “But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.” […] As one detransitioned man, now in a gay relationship, put it, “I was a gay man pumped up to look like a woman and dated a lesbian who was pumped up to look like a man.”

“Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.””

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