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Know of anyone who transitioned, detransitioned, and later retransitioned??

Started by ChrissyRyan, December 03, 2025, 08:46:49 PM

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ChrissyRyan

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




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big kim

Samantha/Charles Kane. Theyre living as a woman  again but dont know the name. Last I heard they were in Scotland

Susan

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 🔗
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ChrissyRyan

Susan,

I am sorry you had to experience this bad situation over time.
I will read the article mentioned.


Chrissy
Always stay cheerful, be polite, kind, and understanding. Accepting yourself as the woman you are is very liberating.  Never underestimate the appreciation and respect of authenticity.  Help connect a person to someone that may be able to help that person.  Be brave, be strong.  A TRUE friend is a treasure.  Relationships are very important, people are important, and the sooner we all realize that the better off the world will be.  Try a little kindness.  Be generous with your time, energy, wisdom, and resources.   Inconvenience yourself to help someone.   I am a brown eyed, brown haired woman. 
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