Krista Kafer

Detransitioners deserve to be heard. 📣 Many were put on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or even surgery as children or teenagers. When they came to regret it, the same medical system that transitioned them had little to offer. Chloe Cole started puberty blockers and testosterone at 13 and had a double mastectomy at 15. By 16, she knew it was a mistake. When she tried to reverse course, she says her doctors were “completely unhelpful.” She’s not alone. 📊 In a study of 100 detransitioners, 55% said they didn’t receive an adequate evaluation before transitioning. 65% said their clinicians never explored whether trauma or a mental health condition was behind their desire to transition. 📉 Only 24 ever told their clinicians they had detransitioned, so the true number is likely undercounted. That’s why the voices of detransitioners matter. 👉 It matters when they say they were lied to as children. 👉 It matters when they say the “trans movement” capitalized on their depression, anxiety, and intense adolescent feelings, exploiting them rather than treating them.  👉 It matters when they say the relief they were promised never came. Detransitioners have a lot to teach us about how gender-dysphoric children are being treated. We ought to listen.