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Largest-ever survey of trans people reveals the real reason trans people detransition

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/largest-ever-survey-of-trans-people-reveals-the-real-reason-trans-people-detransition/

Arin Waller (12 June 2025)

The U.S. Trans Survey, considered to be the most extensive survey conducted on trans health in America, reaffirms the fact that gender-affirming care saves and improves lives. The survey's findings indicate that individuals who transitioned and then went back to living as their sex assigned mostly gave the same reason: anti-trans discrimination from their friends and family.

Released by Advocates For Trans Equality (A4TE) on June 11, the survey questioned over 84,000 trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people aged 18 and older in 2022. Of all respondents, 9% had detransitioned at some point in their lives. The survey also revealed that a trans person's overall mental health and wellbeing depend upon rates of familial support, which also has a profound influence on one's lifetime experiences and suicidality.

The survey's findings contradict conservative media narratives about transition regret, which suggest that large volumes of trans people detransition because they later regret their transition as a mistake. The survey found that only a small number of people detransition, and the decision is largely due to external factors.

"Only 4% of people who went back to living in their sex assigned at birth for a while cited that their reason was because they realized that gender transition was not for them. When considering all respondents who had transitioned, this number equates to only 0.36%," the survey's report stated. On top of that, 98% of respondents said they felt more satisfied with their lives since transitioning.

Thanks, Jessica. This is the type of fact-based information we need to be shouting from the rooftops. The din of disinformation from biased media and disingenuous politicians can't be allowed to remain the only voices in the room. 0.36% detransition because of gender dissonance after transitioning? If I'm understanding the study's results, that's the number we need to share with the 'friends and family' who batter and humiliate their transitioning 'loved ones' to the point it no longer matters enough to them to be themselves to be themselves, sacrificing identity for a seat at the dinner table. I suspect many of us have choked down more than one meal at that table.

Quote from: Mrs. Oliphant on Yesterday at 02:19:16 PM[ S]sacrificing identity for a seat at the dinner table. I suspect many of us have choked down more than one meal at that table.

Some of those seats at the table have significant cost.