Community Conversation => Transitioning => Topic started by: ChrissyRyan on December 03, 2025, 08:46:49 PM Return to Full Version
Title: Know of anyone who transitioned, detransitioned, and later retransitioned??
Post by: ChrissyRyan on December 03, 2025, 08:46:49 PM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on December 03, 2025, 08:46:49 PM
Know of anyone (MTF) who transitioned, detransitioned, and later retransitioned?
What was the story behind those life changing events? She may have changed her mind twice or had to detransition for some important reason, but later things changed so she transitioned again.
I am not talking about buying a wardrobe, purging, then buying more clothes to replace them.
Chrissy
What was the story behind those life changing events? She may have changed her mind twice or had to detransition for some important reason, but later things changed so she transitioned again.
I am not talking about buying a wardrobe, purging, then buying more clothes to replace them.
Chrissy
Title: Re: Know of anyone who transitioned, detransitioned, and later retransitioned??
Post by: big kim on December 04, 2025, 12:57:39 AM
Post by: big kim on December 04, 2025, 12:57:39 AM
Samantha/Charles Kane. Theyre living as a woman again but dont know the name. Last I heard they were in Scotland
Title: Re: Know of anyone who transitioned, detransitioned, and later retransitioned??
Post by: Susan on December 04, 2025, 09:44:26 AM
Post by: Susan on December 04, 2025, 09:44:26 AM
Me.
I publicly transitioned in the early 1990s. I was open and out at work at the time.
I subsequently detransitioned due to concerns about Tennessee at the time - and those concerns were very real.
An LGBT person the community knew as Peanut was found dead and local police ruled it suicide, but it was clear to everyone that it wasn't. If I remember right, Peanut was found with his hands tied behind his back and his throat slit. Then in 1999, Barry Winchell at Fort Campbell - just 13 miles from here - had his skull caved in with a baseball bat by two of his fellow soldiers for the offense of dating a trans woman, Calpernia Addams, in Nashville. That was the climate. Bodies turning up and authorities looking the other way.
So I made a survival decision. But I never felt regret about who I was - I kept living as me in private. My family and close friends knew. I never stopped being Susan. I just got strategic about who got to see it.
I came out for the last time in 2016. It's been 9 years now. A reporter from the Advocate told my story:
https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/9/06/susan-larson-was-advocating-inside-closet
I publicly transitioned in the early 1990s. I was open and out at work at the time.
I subsequently detransitioned due to concerns about Tennessee at the time - and those concerns were very real.
An LGBT person the community knew as Peanut was found dead and local police ruled it suicide, but it was clear to everyone that it wasn't. If I remember right, Peanut was found with his hands tied behind his back and his throat slit. Then in 1999, Barry Winchell at Fort Campbell - just 13 miles from here - had his skull caved in with a baseball bat by two of his fellow soldiers for the offense of dating a trans woman, Calpernia Addams, in Nashville. That was the climate. Bodies turning up and authorities looking the other way.
So I made a survival decision. But I never felt regret about who I was - I kept living as me in private. My family and close friends knew. I never stopped being Susan. I just got strategic about who got to see it.
I came out for the last time in 2016. It's been 9 years now. A reporter from the Advocate told my story:
https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/9/06/susan-larson-was-advocating-inside-closet
Title: Re: Know of anyone who transitioned, detransitioned, and later retransitioned??
Post by: ChrissyRyan on December 06, 2025, 07:34:43 PM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on December 06, 2025, 07:34:43 PM
Susan,
I am sorry you had to experience this bad situation over time.
I will read the article mentioned.
Chrissy
I am sorry you had to experience this bad situation over time.
I will read the article mentioned.
Chrissy