76 — Detransition Part II — The Emerging Picture in Research

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this second episode on detransition (following from EP 74), Sasha and Stella dig into several pieces of research on detransition experiences. They discuss surveys and case studies and analyze the data which is forming a picture of why detransition happens and what appropriate therapeutic care might look like for this vulnerable group. Themes emerge such as misattributing distress to the body’s sex, unprocessed grief and trauma, medical complications, and dissatisfaction with medical transition.

Links:

Genspect Analysis of detrans Reddit survey:

https://genspect.org/analysis-of-reddit-detrans-survey/

Pablo Exposito-Campos Detransition Paper:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1869126

Lisa Littman’s Research Papers:

https://littmanresearch.com/publications/

Littman on Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast — EP 52: https://gender-a-wider-lens.captivate.fm/episode/52-gender-dysphoria-detransition-research-a-conversation-w-dr-lisa-littman

Genspect Highlights of Lisa’s Paper:

https://genspect.org/detransition-highlights-of-dr-littmans-latest-peer-reviewed-study/

Case Study: “Maya,” Lisa Marchiano

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-5922.12711

The Seventh Penis, Bob Withers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25989331/

Detransition-Related Needs & Support Survey, Vandenbussche:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479

Detrans reddit survey (not formal data)

https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/comments/srpp27/the_rdetrans_demographic_survey_screened_and/

Taking the Lid off the Box:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330911243_'Taking_the_lid_off_the_box'_The_value_of_extended_clinical_assessment_for_adolescents_presenting_with_gender_identity_difficulties

Extended Notes

The 1% regret rate stat is misleading.
There is no clear understanding of how many people change their minds about transitioning.
Gender dysphoria is different than sex dysphoria.
Some are disappointed because they say the physical reality of transitioning wasn't very satisfying.
We are all vain. We all care about how we look.
There are medical complications with transition surgery.
Does a relationship to sexual orientation keep someone in a trans-identity longer?
Autistic people might be more likely to remain transitioned.

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0:00.0	You're listening to gender, a wider lens.
0:04.0	I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.
0:06.5	And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.
0:10.6	Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens
0:16.1	and families impacted by gender dysphoria.
0:19.0	I also work with gender questioning teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and
0:24.2	individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the
0:28.0	concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens.
0:37.6	Hi, Cessia.
0:38.9	Hi, Stella, how are you this afternoon?
0:41.5	Good, good. looking forward to this.
0:43.8	Should be interesting.
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.8	So this is kind of our part two.
0:47.3	We started talking about detransition.
0:49.5	We just, at the last episode, spoke about some patterns we've seen and just how important it is to pay
0:55.8	attention to do transition stories and today we wanted to kind of share some of our reflections
1:01.6	on the papers and surveys that we have about detransition.
1:06.8	And there's not a ton of research at this stage,
1:10.1	but we do have some really important surveys that can tell us a lot about what questions we need to keep asking and what these experiences have been like and a couple of really great case studies and papers defining terms and things like that.
1:24.1	So we're gonna talk about it and kind of start with our surveys.
1:30.1	And before we do, I just want to point out because it's said so often that there's a 1% regret rate.
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