This page describes what people report about faith, spirituality and detransition, and what religious traditions teach about the body. It does not argue for or against any religion, and it is not advice to join, leave or change one. If you are struggling with your gender or with a transition decision, the support directory lists gender-exploratory therapists and detrans peer groups, including secular ones.
Overview
Religion and spirituality turn up in detransition stories more often than a mostly secular online community might lead you to expect. On /r/detrans there are recurring threads titled "God and detrans", "Has detransitioning made you more religious?" and "Any Catholics detrans?". Some people say that a conversion, or a return to the faith they grew up in, was what made them stop. Others found that meditation, prayer or long stretches of time in nature quietly changed how they related to their bodies. Others say they came to faith only after detransitioning, as a way to live with grief and regret.
The picture has another side. Many detransitioners say a strict religious upbringing helped push them into transition in the first place, through shame about same-sex attraction or rigid sex roles. Others are uneasy about religious groups promoting detransition stories, and some trans people describe being pressured to detransition by family or church, then transitioning again later.
This page covers both sides:
- what the major traditions teach about the sexed body;
- why faith and spiritual practice can lead to body acceptance;
- what surveys and the site's own statistics show;
- the risks: coercion, "conversion therapy" concerns, religious trauma, and retransition after religious pressure.
It belongs with the other reasons people give for detransitioning. The closely related pages on psychedelics and on Buddhist ideas cover experiences that often overlap with the ones here.
How common it is
What surveys find
Detransitioners who answer research surveys are, on the whole, not especially religious, and few of them rate religion as a main reason for detransitioning.
- In a 2021 survey of 100 people who had detransitioned after medical or surgical transition, 63% reported no religious affiliation (Littman 2021).
- In a 2024 survey of 78 young adults who had desisted or detransitioned, 82% said religion was "not at all" or "slightly" important to them. Of all the reasons the survey asked about, "religion or religious beliefs" got almost the lowest importance rating, a mean of 1.15 on a 1–5 scale. Participants largely rejected family pressure, peer pressure and religion as explanations (Littman et al. 2024).
- In an online survey of 237 detransitioners recruited from online detrans communities, "changes in religious beliefs" did not appear among the listed answer options. It came up only as a write-in reason, alongside things like discovering radical feminism (Vandenbussche 2022).
- In a Finnish clinic report on nine adults who detransitioned, one patient gave "I had a religious awakening" as a reason (Kettula et al. 2025).
These samples are small and self-selected, and most were recruited online, which may leave out religious detransitioners who stay out of online spaces. One detrans man made that point himself:
I feel like a knew of a lot of religious detransitioners but never really see them online. I don't know if it's because they tend to want to distance themselves more or because they just don't tend to be the demographics to hang out a lot in online spaces, but it's a little weird how underrepresented they feel. —IsntthatNeet, detrans male
What the detrans.ai statistics show
The site's statistics come from about 3,094 r/detrans users who transitioned in some form and wrote about it. An AI model read each user's posts and answered set questions about them. The users chose to post, and an AI did the reading, so these numbers describe what people wrote about. They are not rates for detransitioners in general.
- Spiritual experience as significant to detransition. The model was asked whether an account describes "a spiritual or religious experience or conversion as significant to their detransition". It flagged 138 of 3,094 accounts (4.5%), with another 170 uncertain: 92 of 2,344 women (3.9%) and 46 of 750 men (6.1%).
- Primary reason. "Religious or spiritual change" was rarely the main reason given. It accounted for roughly 35 of 2,344 women and 19 of 750 men (about 1.5% and 2.5%). Realising that trauma was the source of their distress, coming to accept their sexed body, and mental-health realisations were all far more common (detrans.ai stats).
- Who the 138 are. Compared with the rest of the cohort, more of these accounts also mention a trauma history (64% vs 44%), childhood abuse (29% vs 15%), regretting transition (69% vs 50%) and medical complications (46% vs 32%). They also describe coming to terms with their body much more often (62% vs 41%). Psychedelic experiences (9% vs 2%) and psychosis (9% vs 2%) are also more common in this group. That overlap fits the accounts below, where mystical experience, drugs and mental health are sometimes tangled together. On life after detransition, 120 of these 138 accounts (87%) describe their mental health as somewhat or much better, compared with 2,109 of 3,094 (68%) in the whole cohort. This is an association in self-selected accounts, not evidence that spirituality causes better outcomes: people who write about spiritual experiences may differ from the rest of the cohort in other ways. Very few of the 138 describe retransitioning, but people who retransition rarely stay in the subreddit, so this group cannot show how often faith-driven detransition is later reversed.
These are associations within AI-extracted data, not causes. Still, they suggest a small group for whom faith or spiritual experience was central, often after a lot of suffering, and often bound up with accepting the body.
Theological frames: the body as given
Every major tradition has a long history of thinking about the body, sex and identity, and every one contains a range of views. What follows summarises official or widely cited positions, not what every believer thinks.
Christianity
Christian arguments usually start from Genesis 1:27, "male and female he created them". They read this to mean that bodily sex is part of a good, intended creation rather than raw material for the self to reshape. This is the "body as gift" idea that detransitioned Christians often echo.
- Catholic Church. In 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education published Male and Female He Created Them, criticising "gender theory" for treating sexual difference as "merely the product of historical and cultural conditioning" while calling for "listening, reasoning and proposing" (Vatican News 2019). The 2024 declaration Dignitas Infinita says everyone deserves respect regardless of sexual orientation. It also states that any sex-change intervention "as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity" a person has from conception. It makes an exception for treating genital abnormalities, such as those found in some differences of sex development (Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith 2024).
- Evangelical Protestants. In 2014 the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest US Protestant denomination, passed a resolution affirming "God's good design that gender identity is determined by one's biological sex and not by one's self-perception" (Biblical Recorder 2014).
- Range of views. Christians are not uniform on this. A 2017 Pew Research Center analysis found that 84% of white evangelical Protestants said sex at birth determines whether someone is a man or a woman, compared with 55% of white mainline Protestants (Pew Research Center 2017). Some churches welcome and affirm trans members.
Islam
Classical Islamic law (fiqh) separates the khuntha, a person with ambiguous sex characteristics, from someone of clear sex who wants to live as the other. Two texts are often cited against changing the body or taking on the dress and role of the other sex. One is the Qur'anic verse in which Satan vows to make people "change the creation of Allah" (Qur'an 4:119). The other is a hadith (a report of the Prophet's sayings) cursing men who imitate women and women who imitate men (Sahih al-Bukhari 5885).
There is an important exception to the strict reading. In the late 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran and Sheikh Muhammad al-Tantawi in Egypt issued fatwas (formal legal opinions) permitting sex-reassignment surgery in some cases (Alipour 2017). Iran is now known for funding such surgery, which critics link to pressure on gay people (see Iran). So "the Islamic view" is not one thing: Sunni and Shia authorities, and individual scholars, disagree.
Judaism
Jewish law (halakha) draws on Deuteronomy 22:5, which prohibits wearing the other sex's garments (Sefaria). It also draws on the rabbinic prohibition on castration, derived from Leviticus 22:24. Orthodox rabbis discussing transition treat that castration prohibition as the most obvious legal obstacle to male transition, while debating how hormones and surgery should be classified. In most Orthodox synagogues, trans members are still counted by birth sex for ritual purposes (Morethodoxy blog, Orthodox rabbis). At the other end of the spectrum, in 2015 the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest US Jewish movement, passed what was described as the most extensive resolution on transgender rights of any major religious body (JTA 2015).
Buddhism
Buddhism has no creator who "gives" a sexed body, so its relevance works differently. The central teachings are anattā (not-self: no fixed, essential self lies behind experience), impermanence, and the idea that suffering comes from craving and clinging. Buddhist teachers have applied these ideas in both directions. Some say clinging to any fixed identity, including a felt "true gender", is a source of suffering. Others say the same teachings support compassion for whatever a person does with their body (Lion's Roar). Detransitioners who draw on Buddhism tend to take the first reading, as the accounts below show. The Buddhism page explores this in more depth.
Why these frames can matter
All four traditions offer something the "born in the wrong body" story does not. That story places the self in an inner gender and treats the body as a mistake to correct. The theistic traditions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) instead treat the sexed body as intended. Buddhism treats both body and self-image as passing phenomena not worth clinging to. Both moves weaken the idea that the inner self has a claim on the body that must be met. Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano has asked whether, as traditional belief declines:
…are we unconsciously seeking a new way to conceptualize spirit, and does gender as a mysterious, disembodied imperative offer this? — (Marchiano 2021)
If gender identity is partly doing work that religion used to do, supplying meaning, a true self and a community, then it makes psychological sense that for some people a return to religion takes over those functions.
Detrans women's accounts
Women's accounts often tie faith to a new way of seeing femaleness. Many describe moving from contempt for their own sex to seeing it as created, good or simply real.
I became a Christian late last year and was baptized last December. I'm not quite sure how to explain it, but studying the Bible has ended up helping me learn to love myself and love who I was born as. Before this, I hated anything that had to do with femininity, I guess subconsciously I always felt it was somehow bad or inferior… —throwaway957563289, detrans female
That account links faith directly to working through internalised misogyny. For others the change was about which identity came first:
…having a relationship with a higher power did influence my de transition in the way that my identity as a child of the universe/god became more important than my identity as trans and eventually I started to accept my sex more. —iloveyoungma, detrans female
Several women stress that this was not about joining a church:
I would say that finding God strongly influenced my detransition, but I wouldn't call myself religious. I don't associate with a certain religion, I don't go to church, I've never read the bible, I just believe in God. —introspection5299, detrans female
For some the sense of conflict was stark ("I felt like I couldn't have both" — bbqnugget777, detrans female). Others came to faith after detransition, as a way to carry regret over irreversible changes:
The regret became easier after I became Christian. The regret was so crushing sometimes all I could do was lay in bed and cry. It can sound so simplistic, but truly, believing in something that is goodness and perfection itself can be comforting when you feel like you are so damaged and flawed. —Top-Dog-7031, detrans female
Not every account is Christian. One detrans woman wrote simply "I became a Muslim" when asked why she stopped hormones (Mysterious-Air2353, detrans female). Others described goddess spirituality, druidry or Gnostic Christianity. One woman, spiritual all along but never religious, separated her strengthened faith from detransition itself:
It is not directly because of detransitioning, it has more to do with my overall journey of confronting trauma and gaining self-acceptance —ur_eating_maggots, desisted female
Detrans men's accounts
Men's accounts often frame conversion as waking up to reality, and several link it to quitting pornography. That connects to the debate over autogynephilia, though not every man uses that label.
From angry agnostic to Orthodox Christian… Now I'm in there at least once a week and really experiencing close contact with Reality, which the old me would find abhorrent and to be a lie or delusion. I thought pretending to be the opposite sex was the same as actually being the opposite sex. —VangelisTheosis, desisted male
Becoming an Orthodox Christian helped me overcome my addiction to pornography. And it gave me a social group that was less accepting and more "normal". So it was a major step in my gender deprogramming… I feel better being connected to a life script that has served people for 2,000 years. —ToastNeighborBee, desisted male
The same man wrote that before converting he had been "a Buddhist into psychedelics", in a "very 'affirming' crowd". This is a reminder that no tradition points only one way. Another man described joining the Catholic Church after trauma work and quitting pornography, adding that leftover thoughts of being a woman are now "like echoes from a past life" (Irinescence, detrans male). One man's summary links faith to finally accepting his masculinity:
Made better friends who didn't affirm that my body was wrong just because I hated it, listened to alternative thought, spirituality, religion, started to believe in God, finally started to see my masculinity wasn't a defect. —sethn61, detrans male
One man who had studied Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) described "deep meditation and prayer" while sober from heroin. In that state he realised transition had served "the lust/pride parts of my ego" and was partly a way to avoid facing same-sex attraction he felt was wrong. He stopped hormones within days and reported no regret a year later (ValentinaFM, detrans). His story holds several threads at once: addiction, sexuality, religious guilt and spiritual practice. Untangling them is hard, even for the person telling it.
Non-religious spirituality: meditation, nature, prayer
Many accounts involve no doctrine at all. They describe practices that change a person's relationship to the body and to the stories they tell about themselves.
Meditation and the "story-telling brain"
One desisted man with years of Buddhist practice described how his gender feelings shifted with the seasons, and how meditation took the urgency out of that:
I used to feel "I should know what I am!". Such a basic thing, I thought. I felt inauthentic all the time. It was agony. These days, after many years of Buddhist practice, I realise I'm just exactly someone who feels how they feel at any particular time, and that's just fine. —oorrll, desisted male
A detrans woman had a similar shift after hearing a podcast conversation about "the prison of self":
I've studied a little bit on both Buddhism and Taoism now and it made me feel like what i was doing was based on this perception I had about what I wanted and felt that I needed, instead of focusing on what I actually have in the moment. —spedbert, detrans female
Other commenters describe body-scanning, mindfulness and a move from body positivity to body neutrality as practical tools (see healing and recovery). These overlap with techniques used in some gender-exploratory therapy. They are about noticing distress without obeying it, not about believing anything in particular.
Nature
Time outdoors comes up surprisingly often as the setting for a turning point:
I began hiking and sitting out in the woods, observing nature around me and came to the epiphany that what I was doing to myself and my body was not 'natural'. I realised that nature doesn't lie. Nature doesn't hide anything. Nature just 'is'. —Turborocker5000, detrans female
Philosophers would point out that "natural" does not automatically mean "good". Even so, the experience she describes is common: a sense that humans are animals among other animals, and that what feels urgent online can look small next to a forest.
Overlap with psychedelics
"Spiritual awakening" and "ego death" (the temporary loss of a sense of a separate self) are words that link these accounts to psychedelic experiences. In the stats, people whose detransition involved a spiritual experience were about four times as likely to also mention psychedelics. The psychedelics page covers those accounts and their risks.
Faith communities and belonging
Belief is only part of it. Faith communities also offer things that some people had previously found in trans communities:
- Belonging after losing friends over detransition (see backlash against detransitioners);
- a life script of marriage, family and ritual that does not centre identity;
- forgiveness, a framework for living with mistakes, including irreversible ones;
- meaning beyond the self, which several commenters contrast with "living for my transition".
One woman described being suicidal and isolated, praying, and then finding "a growing movement" of detransitioners online: "I wasn't alone anymore, and for the first time I actually felt hope" (Adorable-Setting962, detrans female). That sense of rescue is real and important. It is also why critics worry about who is doing the rescuing.
Risks and criticisms
"Swapping one religion for another"
Many detransitioners are wary of religion's growing role in detrans spaces. Some of the sharpest criticism comes from inside the community:
Also I suspect they're suceptible to turning to religion for some of the same reasons that they turned to transition in the first place. Craving alignment with a strong community, simple answers to complex problems, a clear cut goal of what to be, to feel enlightened and morally superior, to reject a past self. —spare_eye, desisted female
Detrans people are already struggling to get out of cult mentality, we don't need to be thrown right into another one. No offense. —AgniKaiMe, detrans female
Many detransitioners describe trans communities in religious terms: "sacred" transition, heresy, excommunication (see cult accusations). One woman's therapist treated her transition-related trauma "the same way she would treat religious trauma" (Quiet-County-9236, detrans female). The parallel cuts both ways. If the problem was looking to a group for a total answer, then a high-control church can repeat the pattern.
Religion as part of the cause
For many detransitioners, religion was where the trouble started. Accounts repeatedly describe Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic, Mormon, Muslim or "extremist Christian" upbringings in which being same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming felt unacceptable, so becoming the other sex seemed like a way out:
My family is Pentecostal Christians and I think that ideology contributed to it as well. Gender identity ideology was my attempt to rewrite patriarchy (or whatever you want to call the rigid gender roles assigned to people) so that I could fit into it… —Admirable_Treacle_97, detrans female
God was what made me hate myself as a gay male and see my only option as transitioning to fit the heterosexual standard. Glad religion could help you though! —Mountain-Bug-4865, desisted male
A woman from a Muslim background said the sexism in her community "contributed to my hatred for being a woman" (Melodic_Record_8559, detrans female). This ties religion to internalised homophobia and trauma. For these people, healing involved rejecting sex stereotypes, sometimes including religious ones, and learning that gender non-conformity needs no label. It did not involve a return to faith. One woman whose religious upbringing "pushed me into transitioning" said she would respect others' faith "but the moment you push that stuff on me.. similar to gender? I will bare my fangs" (DetransIS, detrans female).
Coercion and "conversion therapy" concerns
Conversion therapy usually means organised efforts, often religious, to make someone heterosexual or to make them stop identifying as trans. The ex-gay movement is the main historical example. Exodus International ran for 37 years before its president apologised in 2013 for the hurt it had caused and closed it (CNN 2013).
Trans advocates worry that some religious "ex-trans" ministries repeat that pattern. A 2026 investigation by Uncloseted Media, an LGBT news outlet, republished by The Advocate, reported on a Christian ministry, Strength in Weakness. Former members said it encouraged a member to publicly detransition while that person still had persistent trans feelings. The member was described as the ministry's "poster child" and later died by suicide after leaving. The ministry denied practising or endorsing conversion therapy (The Advocate 2026). Trans advocacy writers have also compared high-profile religious detransition campaigns to ex-gay advertising (Erin in the Morning, advocacy).
The research cited in this debate has limits. Using the 2015 US Transgender Survey, Turban and colleagues found that trans adults who recalled efforts by a professional or religious advisor to make them stop being trans reported more psychological distress and suicide attempts (Turban et al. 2020). Critics accept that coercive efforts "have no place in health care". But they argue the study was cross-sectional, relied on recall, and only sampled people who still identified as trans. Its definitions also risk lumping coercion together with ordinary exploratory therapy (D'Angelo et al. 2021). That distinction matters: detransitioners widely ask for therapy that explores the reasons for distress, and calling all such therapy "conversion" would remove the help many say they needed.
The ethical line most people on both sides accept is the same one that applies to transition: decisions about your body should be your own, informed, and free of pressure, whether the pressure comes from a clinic, a community, a family or a church.
Detransitioning for religious reasons, then regretting it
Some people detransition because of religious fear or family pressure while still identifying as trans, and later regret it. Surveys of currently trans-identified people capture this group. In the 2015 US Transgender Survey, 82.5% of respondents who had ever detransitioned cited at least one external factor, such as family pressure or stigma (Turban et al. 2021). A typology of detransition likewise lists "pressure from family members or spiritual counselors" among known reasons (Expósito-Campos 2021). That survey only included people who identify as trans now, so it cannot tell us how often detransition is driven by pressure among detransitioners generally (see retransition). It does show the group exists.
Trans commenters describe it in their own words:
I came out at 14, was forced to even socially detransition due to very conservative 'Christian' family. Went down the 'trad' rabbit hole for a while. Came out again two years ago, been on T for almost a year and a half, and I'm now 27. I'm the happiest that I've ever been. —ArchReaperofTheVale, trans man
i actually detransitioned because of the thought that it would be easier on everyone else, and that i would never be allowed to be on t and that i would never look how i wanted. i spent the whole time hating myself, knowing i wanted to be a man deep down. —measely_opossum, trans man
Detransitioners themselves often warn against this kind of motivation. Replying to someone detransitioning out of religious fear, one desisted woman wrote:
If you are detransitioning due to religious fear then it's not really about how you feel or identify. If you liked your trans self better and don't like your detrans self then don't do it. —novaskyd, desisted female
There is a real difference between two kinds of account. In one, faith helped someone see their body differently and the distress eased. In the other, fear of punishment made someone suppress feelings that stayed just as strong. The first kind of account describes relief. The second describes "self-denial" and ongoing pain. Only the second looks like the pattern critics associate with conversion efforts.
Trans people of faith
Many trans people are religious and see no conflict, or have worked one out:
I am trans and a Christian. My mother "encouraged" me to read the whole Bible before I medically transitioned. It was a way to stall me, but I'm glad I did it. I saw no evidence that the Bible says I "shouldn't be trans" —Runesmite, trans woman
A former evangelical worship leader described how "Jesus' call to love our neighbor as ourself" led her to confront her self-hatred and reconcile her faith with transition (MollyAzulExplores, trans woman). The same scriptures, read differently, support opposite conclusions. This page does not referee those readings. What it notes is that faith on its own does not settle anyone's path. What seems to matter in the accounts is whether a person's peace with their body is their own.
Making sense of it
Several points come out of these accounts and data:
- Faith is rarely the only reason. In surveys and in the site's statistics it is an uncommon primary reason. More often it sits alongside trauma work, mental health, sobriety, regret or body acceptance.
- Faith and spiritual practice often work by reframing the body. A sexed body seen as given, created or simply real, rather than wrong, is the thread running through Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist and nature-based accounts alike.
- Community is a large part of it. Faith groups can replace the belonging lost when someone leaves trans communities. That brings both support and the risk of new pressure.
- Religion can harm as well as heal. For many detransitioners, a religious upbringing's homophobia or sexism helped drive the transition. Their recovery involved letting go of stereotypes, not taking on new doctrine.
- Pressure is the warning sign, whatever its source. Detransition under coercion can lead to suppression and later retransition, just as transition under social or clinical pressure can lead to regret.
For people rebuilding life after detransition, whether religious, spiritual or secular, see healing and recovery and the support directory.
References
- Littman, L. (2021). Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners. Archives of Sexual Behavior. study page, PubMed.
- Littman, L., O'Malley, S., Kerschner, H., & Bailey, J. M. (2024). Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults. Archives of Sexual Behavior. study page, PMC.
- Vandenbussche, E. (2022). Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey. Journal of Homosexuality. study page, source.
- Kettula, K., Puustinen, N., Tynkkynen, L., Lempinen, L., & Tuisku, K. (2025). Gender Dysphoria and Detransitioning in Adults: An Analysis of Nine Patients from a Gender Identity Clinic. study page, PubMed.
- Expósito-Campos, P. (2021). A Typology of Gender Detransition and Its Implications for Healthcare Providers. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. study page, PubMed.
- Marchiano, L. (2021). Gender detransition: a case study. Journal of Analytical Psychology. study page, source.
- Turban, J. L., Beckwith, N., Reisner, S. L., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2020). Association Between Recalled Exposure to Gender Identity Conversion Efforts and Psychological Distress and Suicide Attempts Among Transgender Adults. JAMA Psychiatry 77(1):68–76. source.
- D'Angelo, R., Syrulnik, E., Ayad, S., Marchiano, L., Kenny, D. T., & Clarke, P. (2021). One Size Does Not Fit All: In Support of Psychotherapy for Gender Dysphoria. Archives of Sexual Behavior. source.
- Turban, J. L., Loo, S. S., Almazan, A. N., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2021). Factors Leading to "Detransition" Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the United States: A Mixed-Methods Analysis. LGBT Health 8(4):273–280. full text.
- Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (2024). Dignitas Infinita: On Human Dignity. vatican.va.
- Vatican News (2019). Vatican document on gender: Yes to dialogue, no to ideology (on Male and Female He Created Them). source.
- Biblical Recorder (2014). SBC's wisdom & gender reassignment (on the 2014 Southern Baptist Convention resolution). source.
- Pew Research Center (2017). Views of transgender issues divide along religious lines. source.
- The Qur'an 4:119. quran.com; Sahih al-Bukhari 5885. sunnah.com.
- Alipour, M. (2017). Islamic shari'a law, neotraditionalist Muslim scholars and transgender sex-reassignment surgery: A case study of Ayatollah Khomeini's and Sheikh al-Tantawi's fatwas. International Journal of Transgenderism. source.
- Deuteronomy 22:5. Sefaria.
- Morethodoxy (2015). Transgender Orthodox Jews (blog by Orthodox rabbis). source.
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (2015). Reform movement passes far-reaching resolution affirming transgender rights. source.
- Lion's Roar. Does my transgender identity conflict with Buddhism's teachings on no-self? (Buddhist magazine). source.
- CNN (2013). Group apologizes to gay community, shuts down 'cure' ministry. source.
- Uncloseted Media / The Advocate (2026). Inside the Christian ministry accused of disguising conversion therapy as celibacy (LGBT news outlet). source.
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