What the words mean

Detransition: the process of stopping or reversing a gender transition — socially, legally, medically, or any combination of the three (MacKinnon et al. 2023). For many people who use the word about themselves, it also means letting go of a transgender identity and making peace with their biological sex. Definitions in the research literature wobble between a narrow version (stopping medical treatment) and a broad one (stopping treatment and changing how one identifies), and that wobble quietly distorts every statistic on this page.

Is detransition an identity or an action? Many detransitioners insist on the second:

Detrans is not an identity. It's very simple. It is an action. It is the act of detransitioning, which means stopping medical "transition" treatments. ... If you want to discuss identities, that's desistance, which means to stop identifying as other than one's sex. — UniquelyDefined, detrans male.

Many describe the end point as keeping your personality and dropping the labels and the medicine:

Detransitioning is more about realizing you don't have to do anything to your body to be yourself. You don't need to cut off bits of you to be you. ... You can dress how you want. You can act how you want. — NeurologyDivergent, desisted.

The terms, side by side

Core and non-core detransition

One typology has become the standard map in the literature. (Expósito-Campos 2021) distinguishes core (or primary) detransition — driven by a change of mind: the person stops identifying as transgender and reidentifies with their birth sex — from non-core (or secondary) detransition, where the trans identity stays but the transition stops or reverses for external reasons: health complications, discrimination, money, or a shift from a binary trans identity to a non-binary one. The categories blur in practice: some people pass through a non-core phase and later reach a core one, with a non-binary identity acting as a halfway house rather than a destination.

Treat the typology as a useful map, not settled science. It was assembled largely from internet testimony, case reports and parent accounts rather than systematic data (Expósito-Campos 2021). And one caution about the non-core route: moving from "trans man" to "non-binary" is often framed as escaping the binary, but the underlying logic stays intact — the belief that a personality doesn't match the stereotypes of one's sex therefore means one is not quite that sex. A masculine woman or a feminine man needs no label at all.

What detransition involves

Detransition works in layers, and people stop at different depths.

• Socially: returning to one's name and pronouns, telling family, friends, employers. Many detransitioners describe it as a second coming out — and often as the harder one, because the audience is now sceptical in both directions.
• Legally: amending documents and gender markers back to sex. This varies hugely by country and can be slow or impossible.
• Medically: stopping or changing hormone treatment, and sometimes pursuing reconstructive surgery. Any change to medication is a matter for a conversation with a doctor — this page offers no medical guidance. Effects split roughly into reversible and lasting: fat distribution and some soft-tissue changes fade, while a deepened voice, facial and body hair, removed breast tissue or gonads, and infertility do not. See the detransition timeline for how long people typically stay transitioned first.

Stopping hormones is not always possible or desirable. Some people — particularly those who are post-surgical — stay on some form of hormone therapy for health reasons while still living as their sex:

Detransitioning is not just presentation. It's the act of no longer medically transitioning, and desisting is the act of no longer socially presenting as the trans or as the opposite gender. … I detransitioned when I stopped injecting testosterone … Wearing makeup and dressing feminine was something I did for myself, and for my own sense of safety in society. … But it doesn't have to be part of your story if that's not in the cards for you. — purplemollusk, detrans female.

Nor does detransition mean switching to the other set of stereotypes:

I've told several other people here that all they need to do is be the exact same person that they were when they were trans. You can have the same personality and wear the same clothes ... and even the same name. It's just identifying with your sex. That's literally it. — wetfart41968, detrans female.

Why people detransition

There is no single story. In a 2021 survey of 100 detransitioners by Lisa Littman (Littman 2021), the most common reasons were becoming more comfortable with one's birth sex (60%), concerns about medical complications (49%), and coming to believe the dysphoria was caused by trauma, abuse, or a mental health condition (38%); 23% cited difficulty accepting same-sex attraction, and 23% cited discrimination or external pressure. A 2022 survey of 237 detransitioners by Elie Vandenbussche (Vandenbussche 2022) found similar patterns: 70% realised their dysphoria was related to other issues, 62% had health concerns, and half found transition had not relieved their dysphoria. A 2023 survey of 78 previously trans-identified young adults by Lisa Littman, Stella O'Malley, Helena Kerschner and J. Michael Bailey (Littman et al. 2024) found that the factors most associated with detransition were internal — one's own thinking changing, causes turning out to be more complicated — rather than family or social pressure.

Common threads across the studies and the stories on /r/detrans:

• Unresolved issues: trauma, abuse, depression, body dysmorphia, dissociation, or autism being read as gender dysphoria. In one clinical series of nine detransitioners, nearly all had childhood or sexual trauma and high rates of eating disorders and borderline personality features (Kettula et al. 2025).
• Rigid gender roles: discomfort with femininity or masculinity — or with homosexuality — mistaken for a need to change sex.
• Social influence: peers, partners, and online communities presenting transition as the fix for every problem. In Littman's sample, YouTube (48%), blogs (46%) and Tumblr (45%) were major influences on the decision to transition (Littman 2021).
• Medical reality: health complications, disappointing results, or the lifelong burden of medication and monitoring.
• Self-acceptance: growing into one's body and dropping the need to pass a test of manhood or womanhood.

Not everyone who detransitions stops feeling dysphoria:

Most of us were and still are dysphoric, but detransitioned due to the medical reality of "transitioning" ... a lot of people get tired of living in denial of their sex. — byunaus, detrans female.

Female and male pathways differ

Detransitioners who write publicly are mostly female — 69% in Littman's survey, 92% in Vandenbussche's, 91% in Littman et al. (2024) (Littman 2021; Vandenbussche 2022; Littman et al. 2024). Some of that skew is about who talks: men face heavier stigma around help-seeking and mistake-making (pinkspiderlilly 2022). But the pathways also seem to differ. In published accounts, females more often describe escaping sexualisation, trauma, internalised misogyny, or discomfort with being lesbian; males more often describe gender stereotypes, internalised homophobia or misandry, or sexual interests.

I'd been living stealth as a man for many years and felt lonely for female community. I was identifying all my internalized misogyny. ... I was processing/analyzing abuse by my mother and my dissociative fantasies (of being male) as a misguided childhood coping mechanism. — L82Desist, detrans female.

I distinctly remember a key moment in my 'trans' realisation. I had some 'male' interests growing up - which made me believe I was meant to be male. But subconsciously too, I wasn't happy being a lesbian. Conversion therapy doesn't work, so ''obviously'' I can be "normal" as a straight man. — OwlLeft8636, detrans female.

It just dawned on me that I can put on what I like, talk how I like, act how I like ... and still be a man — I don't need to alter my body to justify putting pieces of cloth on top of it. — MythicalDawn, detrans male.

I'm a postop detrans male. I've heard about autogynephilia and it reasonates with me... I've been very scared to be gay for my whole life... And now you can see why the belief that I was a trans woman was so easy to embrace... — bones_heart_paper, detrans male.

Defence, dissociation, and the search for an explanation

Lived experience alone cannot say why a trans identity forms and then dissolves. Two clinical lenses help — and both are contested.

Psychoanalytic depth. In a detailed case study, (Marchiano 2021) reads her patient's trans identification as a defence: a way of keeping unmetabolised grief, a punishing mother complex, and split-off aggression out of awareness, with transition promising a "fresh start" self. On this view the identification was not a lie, but a symbol that had been concretised — read literally and treated with hormones instead of interpreted. Detransition, in the case, was when the real therapeutic work began. Similarly, (D'Angelo 2025) describes a "prohibition on knowing" — a resistance to self-exploration, in the patient and in the culture around the patient, that shields a fixed narrative ("born in the wrong body") from contact with unbearable experience; in his case, memories of maternal abuse surfaced only after eighteen months of analysis. Dissociation shows up repeatedly in detransitioners' own accounts — fantasies of being the other sex described as a childhood escape hatch from an unbearable reality (L82Desist). Both case studies are single cases with authors who hold known positions in the debate; they offer mechanisms worth considering, not proof.

Developmental psychology. Adolescence is the natural season of identity formation: experimenting, belonging, and outgrowing earlier selves is ordinary developmental work, not pathology. What is new is that some of this experimentation now runs through a medical pipeline, and that online peer groups can shape a self-concept faster than a family or a clinician can examine it (Littman 2021). Elevated rates of autism among both transitioning and detransitioning youth are reported across several studies — fixated interests, identity mimicry and sensory distress can all be misread as gender dysphoria (Expósito-Campos 2021; Cohen et al. 2023).

Philosophy of the self. The disagreement underneath every other disagreement is what kind of thing a self is. On one picture, the self is a hidden truth to be discovered and declared — which makes detransition baffling, since a discovered truth cannot be undiscovered. On the other, the self is something you partly author, make peace with, and carry in an unchosen body — which makes detransition ordinary revision. A dysphoric desister captured the gap in one line:

I saw a dysphoric desisted person I know phrase this to a trans person as, "I'm literally you with a different worldview," and I thought that was an interesting example of dysphoria being uncoupled from gender. — Illustrious_Peak7985, detrans female.

Same feeling, incompatible maps. Many detransitioners who write about this conclude that dysphoria is real but its meaning is negotiable — which is why they argue for exploring it rather than medicating it on sight.

How common is detransition?

The honest answer is: nobody knows. The figures that circulate come from incompatible definitions of what counts (Feigerlova 2025):

Two structural problems keep the numbers low. The first is loss to follow-up: in longitudinal studies, patients who stop responding are quietly dropped, and are usually counted as successes. Rates above 30% are routine in this field, and regret or detransition often surfaces 4–10 years after treatment — far longer than most studies run (Cohn 2023; Hall et al. 2021). The second is who gets counted. Large surveys such as the U.S. Transgender Survey only reach people who currently identify as trans, so people who now reject that identity are excluded by design — the widely quoted finding that detransition is mostly externally forced comes from exactly such a sample (Turban et al. 2021). Clinic studies and community data — like the /r/detrans statistics on this site — each fill part of the gap, but none is a population estimate. (Cohn 2023) remains the safest summary: the detransition rate is unknown, and telling patients otherwise is itself a failure of informed consent.

Trans perspectives on detransition

Trans-identified people and detransitioners are often cast as enemies, and some commentary blurs the two groups together as if they shared one story. The testimony shows something messier but also sharper: the two communities disagree fundamentally about what detransition is, why it happens, and what it means — and those disagreements are not a misunderstanding that goodwill alone can fix. There is real overlap in experience (see below), but the dominant accounts are in tension, not alignment.

The mainstream trans account

Many trans-identified commenters hold a version of four claims, and each one is contested by detransitioners. First, detransition is morally neutral — a normal part of some people's journeys rather than a failure:

Be yourself. Detransition isn't necessarily a bad thing. There is this concept that it should be bad, that there is some failing on your end because you didn't know before but identity is weird. — Glittering-Tap-5385, ftm.

Second, it is usually caused from outside: transphobia, family pressure, or lack of support, not doubt about being trans. This is also the dominant research framing in trans-affirming studies — (Turban et al. 2021) reported that 82.5% of formerly detransitioned respondents attributed it to at least one external factor, with only 2.4% citing doubt about their gender identity. Third, regret is vanishingly rare:

The regret rate for transitioning is less than 1%, and that includes people who detransitioned because they couldn't take the transphobia/lack of support any longer, rather than realizing they aren't actually trans. — RaccoonChaos, ftm.

Fourth, much of what calls itself detransition is better understood as further identity exploration — a non-binary shift, or a pause — and public "detrans" identity as politics, not experience:

I've seen a number of posts by and about people who stopped taking T because they reached their transition goals, or T just didn't work for them. I've also seen a number of posts by people who became more aligned with a non-binary identity over time. — supernatural_catface, ftm.

"'detrans' is a political identity akin to ex-gay ... but to be ex-gay means you carry certain ideological baggage or intend to do something with that experience." — satonabug, ftm.

Underneath all four sits a real fear: that detransition stories are fuel for campaigns to restrict transition. That fear is not paranoid — political actors do use these stories that way, and many detransitioners say they resent it (see below). But the fear also does work: it reframes detransitioners' testimony as a threat before it has been heard. Notable internal dissent exists: some trans-identified people argue the community mistreats detransitioners and pays for it.

I hate the way the trans community treats detransitioners. ... And if WE don't embrace the detransitioners the TERFs WILL and that is not good. — AABlackwood, ftm.

Where the accounts diverge

The disagreements are not about tone. They run through the meaning of the experience itself:

• Who counts as a detransitioner. Many trans-identified people read detransition as a verb covering anyone who stops — including people forced back into the closet, pausing for health, or shifting to a non-binary identity (noeinan, ftm). Detransitioners who post on /r/detrans mostly mean something narrower: the end of a trans identity and the acceptance of one's sex. The definitional asymmetry stings most:

'When a wide and expansive net is cast around 'trans' such that the term has virtually no boundaries, being even inclusive of non-transitioning, gender nonconforming people (and even relatively gender conforming folks, too), why is the bar set for defining detransition so extremely high?' — quoted approvingly by Mountain_Refuse_3073, detrans female.

• Whether a detransitioner was ever trans. A common move in trans spaces is to tell detransitioners they were never really trans — which detransitioners hear as erasure of years of their lives:

It's so funny how some of them will say "if you question your gender you're probably not cis" and quite literally try to convince people to transition when they display any sort of gender nonconformity and then be like "U WERE NEVER TRANS!" When they decide transitioning isn't for them... — fartmaster000, detrans female.

It's because it's a belief system that gets undermined for them if someone leaves. It's like how if a person de-converts from Christianity, Christians will say that person never really believed. — PatsyandDelia88, desisted female.

• Whether detransition is a neutral exploration or a harm. The mainstream trans account treats it as the affirmative process in reverse; some detransitioners describe being told their bodies are proof of a journey rather than of a medical harm done to them. Many also report being shunned the moment their story stops affirming transition — regardless of how politely it is told:

When I first detransitioned, I tried to be kind to trans people when explaining I overcame dysphoria and accepted my natal body. They almost all labeled me as transphobic or a secret TERF trying to confuse trans people. ... Unless you completely bow to their version of reality they see your very experience as an attack. — verytiredcatto, detrans male.

What gets detrans people shunned is not their style of speech but its content. Trans people don't want detrans people to talk about regret and they don't want them to critique the affirmation model. — Weird-Experience-123, detrans.

• What the disagreement is about. For detransitioners, the split is ideological as much as personal: many no longer believe in gender identity as an inner truth, while trans spaces treat any questioning of that belief as bigotry (fell_into_fantasy, detrans female). As one detransitioner puts it: "Disagreement isn't hate. We should be able to hold beliefs about sex and gender that agree with and validate our own life experiences without that being vilified" (UniquelyDefined, detrans male).

How detransitioners respond

Detransitioners' views vary widely. Some are gender-critical; others are not. What many share is scepticism of automatic affirmation and of permanent medical intervention without thorough assessment. Many oppose blanket bans on adult transition as well as automatic affirmation — they want better assessment, not prohibition. Some describe themselves as allies to trans people while disagreeing with the mainstream account:

I'm still a trans ally just to be clear and I'm sad that people are so quick to label people transphobic for saying that a lot of afabs that identify as trans aren't trans they just have a lot of unprocessed trauma/mental illnesses and they need proper help and therapy. — megasalad666, detrans female.

Many also agree that external pressure exists: 23% of Littman's sample cited discrimination (Littman 2021), and roughly a quarter of the 957 people in the DARE study (Detransition Analysis, Representation, and Exploration — a US and Canadian survey led by York University's Kinnon Ross MacKinnon) detransitioned involuntarily (MacKinnon et al. 2025). And they emphatically do not want to be political ammunition:

I don't want us to be used as a cudgel against trans people but I also don't want us to be swept under the rug. It's tough. — tmipersonalproblem, detrans female.

But on the core claims, many detransitioners part ways with the mainstream trans account:

• "External factors dominate" does not match their data. In surveys of detransitioners, internal factors — realising the dysphoria had other causes, no longer believing in one's trans identity — come first, and external factors last (Littman 2021; Littman et al. 2024; Vandenbussche 2022). Both findings can be artefacts of sampling — the U.S. Trans Survey reaches only people who kept a trans identity; /r/detrans reaches those who largely did not. The honest conclusion is that neither number is a population estimate — and that the "forced back into the closet" story is the one the trans community's own surveys can see, while the "changed my mind" story is the one detrans surveys see.
• "Regret is under 1%" is not a known fact. Those figures come from studies with short follow-up, definitions that exclude quiet discontinuers, and loss to follow-up that is counted as success (Cohn 2023). Quoting them confidently is how informed consent fails.
• "It was all just exploration" denies real harm. Hormones and surgery are not hair dye:

A huge number of trans people and clinicians think detransition is just the affirmative process in reverse. They think we just need to be told "it's okay if you were wrong!" and it will all be fine. There is zero consideration of the idea that our experience doesn't fall into their worldview at all; that we might have been actually hurt rather than merely "exploring our identities." — Illustrious_Peak7985, detrans female.

• Relabelling detransition as "retransition" or "non-binary" reads as erasure. See how the word is contested on the retransition page. The definitional asymmetry stings most:

"When a wide and expansive net is cast around 'trans' such that the term has virtually no boundaries, being even inclusive of non-transitioning, gender nonconforming people (and even relatively gender conforming folks, too), why is the bar set for defining detransition so extremely high?" — quoted approvingly by Mountain_Refuse_3073, detrans female.

• Why the hostility, in their reading? Because a person who changed their mind is evidence that minds can change — unsettling to anyone who needs certainty:

They are scared. Our existence threatens their blind belief that "anyone who thinks they might be trans is trans" "it's not a phase" "HRT and surgery should be readily available to anyone who says they want it." We didn't do anything to hurt them, but the fact that we exist is scary to them. — novaskyd, desisted female.

Where the two perspectives actually meet

Strip away the politics and the overlap is large. Research led from a trans-affirming position concludes that "trans and detrans people share more similarities than differences" and that studying detransition improves care for everyone (MacKinnon et al. 2023). Both groups include many gender non-conforming people, both navigate passing and medical burden, and both report being used as symbols rather than heard. Many detransitioners notice the shared treatment directly:

So many of us deal with the same perceptions people have about trans women. We're not immune to it - though we might be receiving it for different reasons. Also every person's experience is going to be different based on a variety of factors. No utility in making some us vs. them situation in your head. — rose_creek, detrans female.

Trans-identified commenters, for their part, increasingly recognise that detransitioners' suffering was real and not a lesser version of anyone else's:

People who transition usually had years of questioning, pain, confusion, and in some cases trauma that was hurting them. and a lot of them truly did have gender dysphoria. — fireferretbadger, detrans community member questioning their own transition.

How to close the gap? Much of the advice detransitioners give is about conduct:

Don't use detrans people as some sort of "gotcha" in an argument or political debate. Listen to their experiences and validate them as real. Challenge people like evangelicals who use detransitioners to defend/promote transphobia or violence. ... Lots of similar basic concepts as you would use for trans people tbh. — scoutydouty, detrans female.

Chill trans people and chill detrans people don't usually have a problem seeing eye to eye, in my experience. — Chelstrawberrymuffin, detrans female.

And on the one point of genuine grievance — that some trans-identified people believe these lived experiences are harmful to them — the answer many detransitioners give is the same: the real harm to point at is permanent medical treatment carried out without fully informed consent. If that consent were honest about uncertainty, outcomes, and alternatives, there would be far fewer detransition stories to fight over.

Life after detransition

Many detransitioners describe grief and regret, hostility from former communities, and being used as political ammunition rather than being listened to. Many also lose access to care: clinicians who readily approved treatment are sometimes unwilling to help reverse it, even though the same standard — careful assessment and honest consent — should apply in both directions.

It is very difficult to deal with first being ostracized for being trans, and then for not being trans. — yayasini, detrans female.

A 2023 case report by Karleen D. Gribble, Susan Bewley, and Hannah G. Dahlen (Gribble et al. 2023) described a detransitioned woman grieving her inability to breastfeed after a chest masculinisation mastectomy — a consequence absent from the consent literature for that surgery. Detransitioned men face the mirror-image problem of irreversible masculinisation. And the practical burdens are ongoing: voice, hair, fertility, documents, and the question of what to tell new partners and doctors. It does get easier with time:

Yes, it does get easier. ... The early days are super super tough!!! Coping with the feelings of regret, plus your body changing, and coming to terms with everything that has happened is a lot. And you can get through it. — handygal-DIY, detrans female.

I didn't fail at transition. I struggled at first, but I eventually succeeded to convince most people around me I was a woman and had always been one. Transition failed me. I never believed it. It never solved my problems, and it brought new problems. — joliphotia, detrans male.

Explore this section

This page is an overview. The pages below go into each part of detransition in depth.

For the medical side, see medical transition, especially stopping testosterone, stopping estrogen and iatrogenic harm. For the reasons people give for their original transition, see causes and correlates.

Two related sections sit alongside this one. Why some people detransition looks at the reasons and realisations people describe, from health complications and persistent distress to changing beliefs, wanting children and psychedelic experiences, along with the philosophical frameworks some use to make sense of them. Parents and families is for those close to someone who is transitioning or detransitioning.

Finding support

Detransitioners have little formal support to turn to: a 2020 paper by Christine Butler and Anna Hutchinson (Butler & Hutchinson 2020) noted that while extensive protocols exist for transition, none exist for detransition — a gap later reviews keep confirming (MacKinnon et al. 2023). Gender-exploratory therapy and peer support help many people process dysphoria, regret, and grief; a small Finnish clinic series found that easier re-entry for detransitioners, psychiatric collaboration, and professional neutrality instead of automatic affirmation were workable first steps (Kettula et al. 2025). The support directory lists gender-exploratory therapists and detrans support groups. You can also browse more studies and personal videos, or look at the /r/detrans detransition timeline statistics.

Show details: how study limitations shape these numbers

The detransitioner surveys cited here (Littman 2021, Vandenbussche 2022, Littman et al. 2024) recruited from online detransition communities, so they over-represent people with negative transition experiences and cannot tell us how common any reason is among all detransitioners. They also rely on retrospective self-report, where later beliefs reshape earlier memories. Clinic studies like Hall et al., Boyd et al. and Nyquist et al. miss anyone who disengages from care or detransitions without telling their clinic — loss to follow-up in this field routinely exceeds 30%, and lost patients are usually counted as successes (Nyquist et al. 2025, retracted 2026). Registry studies tracking prescription refills (Roberts et al. 2022) cannot distinguish regret from cost, side effects, or sourcing hormones elsewhere. Self-selected surveys of currently trans-identified people (the U.S. Transgender Survey, the Trevor Project) exclude detransitioners entirely by design. Even the definition of "detransition" varies between studies — some count any change of identity, others require stopping hormones with intent to revert — which (Feigerlova 2025) lists among the main biases in the field. Every figure on this page should be read as a lower bound or a sample description, never as a settled rate.

References

• Expósito-Campos, P. (2021). A Typology of Gender Detransition and Its Implications for Healthcare Providers. study page, source.
• Littman, L. (2021). Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners. study page, source.
• Vandenbussche, E. (2022). Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey. study page, source.
• Littman, L., O'Malley, S., Kerschner, H. & Bailey, J. M. (2024). Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults. study page, source.
• MacKinnon, K. R., Expósito-Campos, P., & Gould, W. A. (2023). Detransition needs further understanding, not controversy. study page, source.
• MacKinnon, K. R., Khan, N., & Newman, K. (2025). DARE (Detransition Analysis, Representation, and Exploration) study. source.
• Turban, J. et al. (2021). Factors Leading to “Detransition” Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the United States. Summary: Fenway Health.
• Singh, D., Bradley, S. J., & Zucker, K. J. (2021). A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder. study page, source.
• Hall, R., Mitchell, L., & Sachdeva, J. (2021). Access to care and frequency of detransition among a cohort discharged by a UK national adult gender identity clinic. study page, source.
• Cohn, J. (2023). The Detransition Rate Is Unknown. study page, source.
• Feigerlova, E. (2025). Prevalence of detransition in persons seeking gender-affirming hormonal treatments: a systematic review. study page, source.
• Boyd, I., Hackett, T., & Bewley, S. (2022). Care of Transgender Patients: A General Practice Quality Improvement Approach. study page, source.
• Roberts, C. M. et al. (2022). Continuation of Gender-affirming Hormones Among Transgender Adolescents and Adults. study page, source.
• Cohen, A. et al. (2023). Shifts in gender-related medical requests among gender diverse youth. study page, source.
• Kettula, K. et al. (2025). Gender Dysphoria and Detransitioning in Adults: An Analysis of Nine Patients from a Gender Identity Clinic from Finland. study page, source.
• Marchiano, L. (2021). Gender detransition: a case study. study page, source.
• D'Angelo, R. (2025). Do we want to know? study page, source.
• Gribble, K. D., Bewley, S., & Dahlen, H. G. (2023). Breastfeeding grief after chest masculinisation mastectomy and detransition. study page, source.
• Butler, C., & Hutchinson, A. (2020). The pressing need for research and services for gender desisters/detransitioners. study page, source.
• Nyquist, C. B. et al. (2025). Treatment trajectories among children and adolescents referred to the Norwegian National Center for Gender Incongruence. study page, source.
• Lomax, J., & Butler, C. (2025). Narratives of Adults Registered Female at Birth Who Started a Medical Transition and Later Detransitioned. study page, source.