Thank you for writing this! There must be better medical and mental healthcare for detransitioners (and may I add better mental health and social supports for desisters).
How can they continue to deny detransition care if they are going to claim it’s just a “natural” and “healthy” part of the gender journey? They can’t have it both ways.
Thank you for writing this! There must be better medical and mental healthcare for detransitioners (and may I add better mental health and social supports for desisters).
How can they continue to deny detransition care if they are going to claim it’s just a “natural” and “healthy” part of the gender journey? They can’t have it both ways.
“Yet in the trenches of trans health care, there is a growing idea that pushes back against the “one true gender for each individual” framing altogether—one that could allow us to resolve the bitterly divisive culture war over the psychological and medical care of transgender children. What if, instead of viewing gender as a fixed trait, we started to think of it as something that could evolve over the course of a lifetime? Or if detransitioning wasn’t considered a sign of failure and was instead regarded as a natural and healthy part of the gender development process?”
Thank you for writing this! There must be better medical and mental healthcare for detransitioners (and may I add better mental health and social supports for desisters).
How can they continue to deny detransition care if they are going to claim it’s just a “natural” and “healthy” part of the gender journey? They can’t have it both ways.
“Yet in the trenches of trans health care, there is a growing idea that pushes back against the “one true gender for each individual” framing altogether—one that could allow us to resolve the bitterly divisive culture war over the psychological and medical care of transgender children. What if, instead of viewing gender as a fixed trait, we started to think of it as something that could evolve over the course of a lifetime? Or if detransitioning wasn’t considered a sign of failure and was instead regarded as a natural and healthy part of the gender development process?”
https://thewalrus.ca/new-gender-paradigm/