Ky Schevers

Some of what I did as a detrans woman seems so wacky now. I found another detrans woman online, we talked about our experiences, read some rad fem/ gender crit blogs, read 2 articles linking transmasculinity to dissociation and trauma, one of which was written by a playwright,...

...and then decided we knew the "real root causes" of transmasculinity and how to "heal from it". Ideology mixed with desperately wanting to stop suffering is a hell of a drug. And so many people went along with us, especially older lesbians concerned with "lesbian erasure".

So many people are willing to believe theories about trans people that have little evidence to back them up. Like the idea that transmasculine people transition due to internalized misogyny, where's the proof aside from testimonials of detrans women, many of whom are rad fems?

I was thinking this after observing a panel where a radfem talked about how every transmasculine person she talked to was a survivor, and thinking "maybe survivors in the trans community aren't being served very well and are looking for help, not conversion?"