Ky Schevers

When I say that detransition is a psy-op, I know how harsh it sounds. I've tried to adapt my language to be a little more sensitive to human beings in difficult circumstances. However, this is what I mean by saying detransition is a psy-op.https://twitter.com/reclaimingtrans/status/1370713788278784001 …

There's a dominant narrative around a set of experiences that we're currently calling detransition, and that narrative was created by people (including @reclaimingtrans) for a political anti-trans reason. It is very much like ex-gay in that way.

Creating narratives around experiences, joining people with those experiences into identity groups, and connecting those groups with politics isn't necessarily even a bad thing. If the detransition community was right in their understanding, they'd be doing a good thing.

It's bad because their explanatory framework (that trans men are self-hating women suffering from internalized misogyny who won't experience dysphoria if they confront that misogyny) was a failure. If it was right, there'd be nothing wrong with them organizing to help people.

So, when I say it's a psy-op, I mean both that it was intentionally constructed AND that it's a harmful, sexist, demeaning lie. The intentional construction doesn't make it nefarious, the lie does.