Increasing numbers of people are identifying as belonging to a gender different to that of their biological sex. There’s a commonly held assumption that some people are ‘trans’ and ‘born into the wrong body. Most healthcare interventions will ‘affirm’ the person’s preferred gender and help them to transition often in a physically irreversible way.
But what if someone who makes a gender transition later changes their mind? What if they regret making irreversible physical changes to their body? What then?
This book is about the detransitioners and the desisters for whom gender transition was not the hoped for solution.
The people whom society has been led to believe do not exist and who are not followed up by the gender clinics who facilitated their gender transition. But those of us who work with them clinically know all too well that they exist and that their numbers are growing rapidly.
This book sheds light on the phenomenon of detransition and gives a voice to the detrans people and the parents for whom transition can impact with devastating consequences.