Evan Urquhart

re: Detransitioners Maybe let's NOT listen to people who were massively wrong about themselves telling us their really real truth now. Wait 10 years. If you still want to talk about your detransition then, assuming you haven't retransitioned in the meantime, I'll listen.

Detransitioners, look, I get it. Life is confusing when you're young. Sometimes you make big, embarrassing mistakes. Fitting those mistakes into your life story is an unpleasant process. As someone who made mistakes when I was young, I empathize. I really do.

You need some time for the experience to settle. Work that shit out with a good therapist, or some trusted friends. For your own good and mine, get the hell out of the public eye and stop making alliances with dirtbags.

don’t you suppose detransitioners just think that they themselves would have benefited from a bit of visibility that detrans exists? surely we can all agree on a goal of no ultimately unwanted medical interventions.

I can agree on reasonable efforts to prevent unnecessary medical interventions- but I don't think trans treatments should be held to a standard other procedures aren't. The goal should be a very low rate of failed interventions (which to my knowledge is what we have).

you’d need to deal in specifics to determine if you have public support that the detransition rate is sufficiently low. for instance, a widely popular position of “no medical interventions until 18 and lived as new gender for a year” would lower that rate even more.

Why not just compare the efficacy and the rate of complications to other procedures and make a determination based on the medical evidence?