(LifeSiteNews) — New research discovered that individuals who regret gender-transitioning surgeries are often neglected and face “detransphobia.”
According to a study by a York University-led research team published in the International Journal of Transgender Health, detransitioners received inadequate support from both the medical community and LGBT proponents after regretting their gender reassignment interventions.
“I feel so alienated now, and super isolated from the rest of the queer community,” one study participant reported.
“I lost every adult and friend in my life when I chose to detransition,” another added.
“I lost everything I had socially,” still another reported.
One detransition revealed that “I was turned down by four surgeons and ghosted by the one who did the mastectomy.”
Conducted as a cross-sectional survey from December 2023 to April 2024, the study recruited 957 participants (age 16+) in the U.S. and Canada who self-identified with detransition experiences.
Recruitment involved ads on eight social media platforms, emails to about 1,200 prior research participants, and outreach to over 615 LGBT organizations and “gender-affirming” care providers. Additionally, the research was conducted by a team primarily composed of LGBT researchers.
The report found that many detransitioners experience physical distress after undergoing so-called gender-transitioning surgeries.
At the same time, no formal healthcare guidelines exist to address their medical and psychological needs. Additionally, detransitioning individuals may face social isolation and stigma from LGBT-identifying individuals and groups.
“According to the detransphobia model, individuals who shift their gender after an initial transition may encounter social rejection and barriers to accessing support within SGM (sexual and gender minority) communities due to misrecognition, gender identity fluidity and detransition-related stigma,” the report stated.
While LGBT activists continue to push gender-transitioning surgeries, medical research has found that people who persist in their gender dysphoria and undergo so-called “gender transitioning” are more likely to commit suicide than those who are not given irreversible surgery.
Indeed, a significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “reassignment” procedures fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored detransitioners attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion in favor of “transitioning.”
So-called “gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with a 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s “Clinic for Transgender Health,” where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
