Detransitioners abandoned by doctors, community face 'detransphobia'

“Ghosted”— ignored — by the surgeons who altered their bodies and ostracized by the communities that once embraced them, the largest study of detransitioners in Canada and the U.S. in decades is exposing a new form of stigma: detransphobia. Article content

The survey of nearly 1,000 people suggests that many who halt or reverse a gender transition feel poorly supported by LGBTQ groups and gender-affirming care practitioners, and wish doctors “took a more neutral approach to care.” Article content

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“The mainstream gender-affirming care system largely presumes that gender identity/expression is immutable and that TGD (transgender) people will engage in only one gender transition,” the York University-led research team wrote in wrote in the Internation