Why Are More People Detransitioning?
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2023
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Why are more people detransitioning?
Reports from the last few years suggest that the cases of gender transition regret are going up as well as the number of young people seeking gender reasignment, especially among young women, most likely explained by rapid onset gender dysphoria, which some trans people still believe doesn't exist.
In this video i attempt to explain why people detransition and why those numbers are going up. I have adressed the previous claims and statistics and compared it with more recent study which shows that detransition is much more common than previously estimated. Approximately 30% of people who start on HRT discontinue after the first four years.
So far the stats out there have been based in ideological narrative presented by the left and the translobby. They don't ask us why we detransition and choose to speak for us.
Findings presented by Kinnon Ross MacKinnon suggest that the reasons why majority of transgender people detransition is not because of social stigma and discrimination, as was previously estimated.
Links to research and articles can be found in the description.
Thanks for asking thoughtful questions and for telling your story. I wonder if the rise in autism is one factor?
@@desireegreen653 I think one factor is body dysmorphic disorder in autism.
So brave, Aleks, to be so truthful. I wish you strength, and a rich, enjoyable life.
Alex I am going to post a deeper dive into your points but it is simply glorious to watch you work. LOL, loving the injection of your "artwork" - the stick-people drawings really raises the artistic bar 😆🤣😂!!!! Honestly, with each video here on your channel, as well as in your discussions on other channels, I see an amazingly resilient personality and someone with a great sense of purpose and character. Thank you so much for sharing your insight and experiences. It means a great deal!!
Thanks for the links No surprise to see some trans-spin in some of this. Thank you also for dismantling this ridiculous notion that the reason people detransition is because of lack of acceptance. It’s because individuals were “affirmed” in the beginning (often as a child) that this mistake began. This idea that we must create a society that continues to perpetuate this fantasy (i.e., use preferred pronouns) and continue to “affirm” someone’s delusion is mindless and certainly danderous. When you learn that your happiness is so closely tied to the acceptance and actions of others you are not likely going to live life in a good place. We seem to forget that we learn resilience and to become less dependent on others as we mature BUT if we support blocking normal development and puberty through drugs we shouldn’t be surprised there are consequences. Immaturity becomes a lifelong trait another side effect to go along with a micro-penis that the boys who are seduced into this end up with. My one concern with the qualitative trans-advocate “research” is they gather the data they need to create the narrative which supports their conclusions. It’s actually the anti-science empirical method. So someone like yourself would be put through their models and labelled a detransitioner, but you get a check in the box as someone who “doesn’t regret transitioning”, and this includes the surgery. You have spoken to these feelings in the past. I am not sure what the answer is here. We need to frame the decisions for surgery more clearly so that it doesn’t sound like it aligns to the research which suggests the positive effects of transition, even for detransitioners that have had body parts harvested.
I really dislike the term "gender affirming care", that care only extends one way, no care is given for detransitioners. The theory going around that girls are transitioning due to social contagion, much the same as they have before with cutting and ED's seems pretty plausible.
From an evolutionary perspective women are more likely to conform to their flock, care more about what people around them think. It's survival instinct. It makes sense that girls would be more affected by this social contagion.
Trans boys are boys, not girls... also, social contagion is not a real thing transgender-wise.
@@alexanderl9721 makes sense since women are more vulnerable during both pregnancy/childbirth and while caring for small helpless humans. Historically, they needed the social support more.
The phrase is a lie
-(sex independant) "gender" can't even be demonstrated to EXIST, as anything more than at best, a social trend. And at worst, an evidence-free religious concept; Your "gender" is slightly re-jigged version of "the soul" (invisible, undetectable, inside each person, determining their "TRUE self", somehow, despite the total absence of evidence providing a FAR GREATER TRUTH than mere, trivial, irrelevent, evidence-based objective reality).
-Even if they COULD prove that (sex-independent) "gender" is any more real than ghosts, or sin, or luck, we still have no empirical evidence of any SPECIFIC patient's "TRUE gender"- There is NO psych condition where diagnosis relies ONLY on the patient saying "I have [X] psych condition". You ALWAYS need some objective, test/criteria, to discern hypochondriacs, from legit sufferers of whatever condition... EXCEPT for "transgenderism", where ALL standards to protect the vulnerable go out the window, and we just slice up anyone unwell enough to want it...
-It's not "care" (or even "medicine") to cut up a perfectly healthy body, based on exactly ZERO empirical evidence of any medical issue. It is objectively "MUTILATION", and total violation of "first do no harm"
The phrase "Gender affirming care" is the worst kind of Orwellian NewSpeak.
The same mentality that would have re-named "The Final Solution", to the "Judaism Affirmation Program".
@@alexanderl9721 very true! Women generally are the “social glue”, with a high degree of agreeableness. Trans activists misuse that to get women to argue with each other over trans rights instead of fighting for their own. Disclaimer: not saying all women are like this or that no men are agreeable 😅. I’d also say older women lose that agreeableness and that’s why we’re the ones vocally fighting the trans activists.
I'm 53 yrs, so transitioning was not even a subject I knew about when I was your age. But I was sterilized without consent by a doctor during an abortion. I was 19 yrs. I had a bad childhood and had to do alot of stuff from age 9 yrs. So I was very sexually promiscuous at a young age. The doctor who sterilized me had met me in the OR and asked me 1 question before deciding I was unfit to reproduce.
I think your show is amazing. I love what you do. So grateful.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you adopted a child later on?
@NoelWest. What a terrible situation! I'm so sorry for the cruelty inflicted on you! 😢😩😠
Laffey, People can learn from their own mistakes and grow. I don't think being judgemental helps anyone. That's not what Jesus would do.
That is so horrible - I am so sad to read this
Laffey, No worries. We all can let our emotions get bet best of us. It makes sense when you're on a new path. When i first started speaking out honestly two years ago I was much more hot-headed.
Reason for increase in girls wanting to transition
* Activist teachers creating doubt in children ("what gender do you feel like today!")
* Activist written books and online feed promoting gender confusion and maybe parents won't understand
* Rainbow joy in schools ... it's cartoon-ness makes you not want to be boring... makes you want to stand out ...
* Girls talk more about their feelings and love this cartoon stuff
* Girls onset of puberty hormones play havoc with their moods every single month... with periods giving some young girls disgust with their bodies
* Girls not seeing themselves as a "female beauty"... so maybe they're not a female at all ... but sadly born in the wrong body
* Puppy fat and going through the "ugly duckling" phase (without getting sufficient affirmation that the a growing into a lovely swan
Teenage girls are well known for developing fixations ... anorexia, cutting, bulimia, being attracted to another girl (and feeling guilty?) ...
* Girl peer pressure
... so with all these issues to navigate ... they now have a"cure all" ... and it is trans to solve all problems... so ... here we go ... 😢😢😢
You made so many good points.
@@alexanderl9721 Thanks Alex, Your feed appeared on my RUclips feed and you are a valuable voice. I truly hope all countries start keeping better statistics on youth depression - I truly hate how big pharma benefits from gender confusion, how some doctors choose to experiment on mostly young adults and how activists - either knowingly or as useful pawns - are going after the youth.
Good observations!
Yeah, I'm a guy, but I don't think I knew ANY girls who didn't struggle around their early teens.
Really, basically EVERYONE struggles in adolescence. But for girls, I think it's much more sexed- They have the same weird "trying to figure out how to be an adult" issues that boys have... But they ALSO get all this sexual attention as their body develops, both from male peers, adult men, and even girls bitching and competing and being jealous or whatever, among themselves.
Not that growing up male doesn't have its own unique headfvcks. But I don't think that many guys (when I was growing up, in the 90s) would opt out of maleness, if that was somehow an option... But I'm pretty sure that MANY girls I knew back then, would have wanted to "opt out of womanhood", if they were told that was a possibility.
One girl I was freinds with, in particular, was always INTENSELY uncomfortable in her own skin, to the point where she basically just shut down around strangers, out of self-consciousness. She was super-pretty, almost like a model. But she also developed huge boobs, young, which wasn't really fashionable in the "heroin chic" 90s, but DID still draw a buttload of sexual attention, that she REALLY didn't want to deal with- She never had boyfriends, or (later in our teens) one-night stands, never wore revealing clothes; Did the "goth" thing, so she could cover her face with messy hair. Basically did her best to be "asexual", before "asexual" was a thing. And more than once, talked about being jealous that boys were free of the kind of beauty standards and sexual attention that she struggled with, so much.
If someone had told her "look, there is a way you can just NOT become a woman", I'm 99% sure she'd have taken the bait... ESPECIALLY "top surgery", since she was INTENSELY self-conscious about her large chest.
Ironically TODAY she's the only "TERF" I know IRL, who was 'peaked' to the issues around transgenderism, years before I was. Which baffled me, because she's always been VERY big on gay/lesbian/"queer" rights.
Tl;dr I think it's always been EXTREMELY normal for girls, around age 10 to 15, when puberty is messing with theoe body, to want to "opt out of womanhood"... But that does NOT necessarily mean they "Identify as male" (altho, I think it could easily be TRANSFORMED into that)
I think THAT is the main factor- Girls don't "want to become boys"... They just want a way to "opt out" if their own sex/biology.
@@baconsarny-geddon8298 Everything you said here is SO true for so many women looking back on their teenage years. I am SO thankful this idealogy wasn't around when I was younger. More than that, I'm terrified of what is now happening in Irish schools. I pray more people wake up as young people just think older people are wack ... as they can never see themselves old ... nor never imagine someone more than 15 years older as young (unless if course you're on the same page and then you're cool (or however they express that sentiment these days)
Love the way you explain things, you are extremely intelligent and strong, keep on making a difference, you have the power!
Thank you.
I discovered it's important to understand being transgender before forming an opinion. To begin, some people think they are transgender, some want to be transgender, and some ARE transgender. Given time the truth will be discovered in each case.
Those who just think they are transgender should be allowed to live the gender they think they are. If they are not transgender they will ultimately get tired of behaving as a transgender.
Those who want to be transgender should also be allowed to live the gender they want to be. And, again if they are not transgender they will get tired of acting as a transgender.
Those who are transgender should again be allowed to live the gender they think they are. If they are transgender, in time, they will feel more comfortable and at peace and will usually transition.
In all 3 cases, there needs to be an extended period before any puberty blockers or HRT should be prescribed or before any surgery.
True young transgender children should be allowed to live as their authentic selves and should not be compelled to go through puberty so they can avoid irreversible body changes, expensive and painful surgeries, and possible suicide.
I see the biggest problem is parents, classmates, and adults who don't permit children and adults to live as they feel they are. As I explained, if they are allowed to live the gender they think they are, want to be, or truly are, they will discover their truth over time.
It seems those who think they are transgender and those who want to be transgender are the ones who detransition. True transgenders have no desire to detransition.
The core question is How many people suffer from gender dysphoria? And the answer according to the DSM 5 is somewhere between .005% and .014%. So the whole thing is simply a non-issue. Also, we have to look closely at the claim that hormones will help with gender dysphoria. The Cochrane Review on the subject says there simply isn't any reliable evidence to support this treatment, and that's why the NHS, Sweden, France, etc., have largely stopped this therapy.
the problem is a lot of transgenders today are not even trans, theyre full on straight men who wanted to use female bathrooms and stuff
Since gender dysphoria is a mental disorder of self-image it can be induced, especially on kids, especially on gay kids because the world is constantly presenting homosexuality (explicitly and implicitly) as something wrong, undesirable or as some kind of biological failure.
But of course in the greedy and perverse societies like in the US and the UK and Canada, it's encouraged still 😮😢
Hi, statistician here. Here is why: Because there first was an increase in transitions. Then follows the backlash of those who want to detransition. I bet a fair few of them also feel _mislead_ by those who promoted it.
Thank you for you insight. I pointed out in the video that the increase I transitions will naturally lead to an increase in detransition, even if detransition rate is just 1%, which I honestly doubt. Is it as high as the research I referred to? Perhaps not, it's been done on a small group with a specific background, not enough information to go by. But I do agree that many do feel mislead and promoting this to kids who will naturally feel insecure I'm their own bodies at that age leads to these cases.
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Alexander, you rocked it as usual!!! Love the hysterical drawings!! And, as always, much food for thought along with thoughtful analysis. You are changing the world one video at a time 💖😁
Thank you.
You are looking well Alexander . This is subject that needs some accurate data circulated. I think the over sexualization of young women is playing a huge roll in this trans social contagion
I agree. There's way more pressure for girls to be s certain way than boys. So girls just simply don't wanna identify as girls anymore
I saw you in VG and I just wanted to say you are so brave to speak out and thank you to speak up on this important subject :)
Great video Alexander! I learned something and was entertained! 😄 I very much liked your white board drawings and had a good chuckle at several of them. I really like the levity you incorporated.
I hadn't realized that the TRA side was blaming detransition numbers on "social pressure." Terribly ironic that this apparantly comes into play on the detrans side, but not a possibility at all that it could have played a role in someone transitioning in the first place 🙄
I don't have a timestamp, but when you talked about looking at why this is happening from a non-ideological point of view, I said to myself, "you mean like actual science?" Wouldn't that be something!
Keep up the good work!
Thanks. Glad you learnt something and enjoyed my drawings.
People being accepting of someone's gender expression is not putting pressure on them to transition, whereas people rejecting someone's gender expression is much more likely to be putting pressure on them to either not transition or to detransition. That's the difference.
If I constantly tell you I'm happy whether you wear pants or a dress I'm clearly not pressuring you to wear one or the other, but if I constantly tell you I hate it when you wear pants you're more likely to feel pressured to wear a dress even though you might like to wear pants.
@@dantheman2907 for teens, for whom rebellion and pushing away of parental influence is a natural and important part of gaining autonomy, pressure either to dress or present one way or another is most likely to push them further into rebellion rather than into compliance. Detransitioners whose parents encouraged them to transition at a younger age, have faced family who do not support their detransitioning, and vice versa.
Based on my experience as a female who transitioned (as an adult) it’s because girls are raised not to objectify boys/men as part of their social morality. This means lusting after boys is misunderstood as wanting to BE the boys. I transitioned because as a woman I didn’t want to be objectified for my sexy hourglass body and I also had small breasts which I didn’t mind but I was ridiculed about by men. I also didn’t conform to most standards of dress or anything that was idolised in women. It looked easier and more natural to me to live as a man.
Your story is very common. Not wanting to be objectified is one of the top reasons why girl transition from what I've noticed. At least among those who later regret it. Especially if they develop that way of thinking after bad experience with he opposite sex in their adolescence.
And the sad truth is afterwards they're even more objectified for being trans!😮😢
The thing is though , the people who objectify it’s literally NOT you it’s THEM…. See? Basically you can’t change THEM, so fuck them , they can think or do what they want but I ain’t gna risk anything coz of THEIR point of view and retardedness… Society is just fucked up as a whole, all that needs to be done is acceptance and people need to fking stop putting their nose in other people’s lives for crying out loud.
Alexander... one of the most handsome man I've ever seen, through and through. I’m sorry you were so assaulted. What you are doing is courageous, and urgently important. Do you have a website yet? How can we help? Many prayers.
Godspeed ✞🕊
Despite the ugly nose and asymetrical chin and droopy eyes ?
Could it be some people have realised they where never in the wrong body in the first place and transitioning was done because they either felt pressured or, didnt have enough information to lead them down the correct path whichever one that may be.
Because they never 'transitioned' in the first place. They were mutilated by insane butchers who should be in a prison for the criminally insane. The 'de-transitioners' are just attempting to salvage some of what they were.
People are detransitioning because pretending to be the opposite sex for the rest of your life is a crazy idea.
I enjoy your unique perspective on this topic. I also must say, the video is well made and is very authentic to you--informative and entertaining (I like your personality, what can I say!)! Thanks for all of the work you do!
Thank you for your perspective, intelligence and willingness to back your assertions with stats. Your comment section demonstrates that your subscribers are intelligent too. Subscribed!
Thank you.
My goodness you've found your element, your purpose! May God carry you through this amazing place you have entered!!
Thank you.
Love this video! Thanks for speaking up!
Very sharp, fascinating conclusions and thoughts. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience, great video!
Great video. Very interesting and you explain things so well and with humour.
Thank you.
I like your evidence based approach and your observation that de-transitioners are being used as a football between ideological extremists. The magical thinking and dunning-kruger that goes on at both extremes is very reminiscent of what I encounter in so called "alternative medicine"
Fantastic video and great levity with the whiteboard drawings. ❤
More excellent content. Thank you💗
Excellent video in breaking this topic down in a critical way.
Thanks Alexander it's good information. It can help us all. Perception is power.
I like your channel
I think that the fact its much more available plays a lot into this as well. When gender affirming care was incredibly rare, only those who were most desperate for it could get it, but now nearly everybody has the chance for it.
I had to wait a year before hormones and was refused three times by medical professionals. I wasn't "trans" enough for them as I told one that I wanted to take estrogen but still present as male and keep my bit. After a couple of rejects, I told the party line and said "I am woman". I've always walked transition back from day one meaning that I just took the hormones and not much else. I think the most radical thing I tried was getting an ear piercing in the normal female position. I've mostly worn male clothing and never a dress, bra, or lingerie. I've recently declared I'm a trans-feminine eunuch as I've had a castration and feel comfortable with that term. The main reason for the hormones was that I didn't want to go through any more male Tanner progressions.
@Stef Marderas WPATH has now recognized "eunuchs" as a gender identity within our own natal male sex. The treatments for trans-feminine eunuchs is estrogen and blocker or a castration. I think a majority of those on estrogen will identify this way in the coming years. We'll have to put it out there as "non-binary" as you'd be operating within your natal sex. For years, we were the ones who either figured out how to stunt our characteristics through mild-starvation or we committed suicide. You really have to hit a drought to stop that corn from rising. Transgender critic, Matt Walsh gleefully asked where were all of these transgender suicides decades or even centuries ago. When I was junior high, I heard a teacher say that one fellow some years back jumped out a window. In the note, he said how he couldn't handle his summer growth spurt which would have been 4:1 torso to leg ratio. I don't know what transgender issue played into this but that's what was going on. I think the teacher put it out there as a "developmental issue" and I knew right then what he had went through in his mind. It takes 48 weeks to ossify a bone and he could have been helped with HRT (blockers and estrogen) if he thought this was the only direction he thought his life could lead. They "let it pass" and he passed. We're the ones on the front-lines of this fight and we are reliving this assault on our rights.
These people think we're joking but we're not the ones passing through a phase; this is who we are. Now is the time as the laws are drowning us out after awareness of the transgender phenomenon. Knowing there is a solution and being denied is the worst. I see a lot of people coming to my home state of NY or CA just to escape the laws. A bus ticket to NYC can save a life and give the dignity that the transitioner needs. The public doesn't really know what's going on with us as we don't bear the brunt of the restroom issue as we operate within our natal sex. But now they're smokin' us out with the laws; it's time to fight.
@@DorianPaige00 did you have an orchiectomy or are you referring to chemical castration via puberty blockers?
Just trying to better understand.
@@DorianPaige00 do you believe that being given an artifically induced intersex condition (Kallmans syndrome) via highly health compromising hormonal treatments and or surgeries as a pre-pubescent child are an ethical solution in order to fulfill a societal sex stereotype?
@@Gingerblaze I had an orchiectomy after taking an androgen blocker called spironolactone at a daily dosage of 200mg. I had the orchiectomy which I'm happy with because I foresaw a day when we may lose our medicine by law. If that were to happen, I wouldn't bear the brunt of it. Furthermore the doctor gave a high dosage of spironolactone and I really didn't think I needed that amount but once you go through the wrong puberty, you don't want any part of testosterone or steroidal medication.
Adolescents who take puberty blockers still have to take spironolactone as an adult. Contrary to popular opinion, puberty blockers don't render one forever sterile.
Top notch effects 👍 😂❤. Excellent content!
Fascinating Alexander….looking good mate 😁
Thanks.
Thank you for making this video.
You weren't kidding when you said you had a whole video planned answering the question I had on your other video! I love the way you explain things! It's fun, to the point, and easy to take in. A lot of what you said makes sense, and it seems a lot of the same reasons I've been finding from my own independent research. I would add that I think another reason men are detransitioning more commonly is because whereas estrogen tends to have side effects that make a man feel worse, it's much more common for testosterone to make a female feel like they have more energy and focus. I've read some people say that even after they realized they wanted to detransition, it was almost hard to stop the testosterone because it was almost an addiction they had to it. That's not to say that both don't have awful side effects, just that it's more common for females on testosterone to feel more positively than males on estrogen.
(Please make the awful whiteboard drawing a commong occurrence in your videos! It's wonderful l. As was the random fact lol)
Thank you. This make perfect sense. In addition, female transitioners don't take meds that suppress their natural hormone production, which plays a big part here. As a male transitioners, we take antiandrogens which suppress our production of testosterone in addition to being pumped up with synthetic hormones.
Awful drawings? Oh please, I make Leonardo Da Vinci look like a 5 year old drawing stick figures 😆
@LemontheDestroyer Well that makes perfect sense! Thx for this input 👍
@@alexanderl9721 Your not "pumped"; you take one pill a day.
It's funny you mention that. I had to bail out a basement full of water the day after I started estrogen and androgen blocker. I was so tired after 20 minutes with muscle fatigue but I soldiered on. I don't regret remaining on estrogen but it does slow you down sort of like alcohol. However estrogen doesn't have the long term side effects like testosterone. Testosterone raises blood pressure, cholesterol, anger levels, musculature, and likelihood of diabetes and natal reproductive cancer.
@@alexanderl9721 young prepubescent girls in Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and Australia, have been prescribed gnrh prior to or alongside testosterone.
It seems different clinics are following different protocols in various countries.
Amazing video Alex !!! Thank you for speaking
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Hi Alexander, I completely agree. We need more research and information. My hope is that we can find a way to minimize the number of individuals who transition for inadequate reasons and later experience regret. At the same time, it is still essential to support and assist those individuals who genuinely suffer due to their assigned gender identity and can greatly benefit from transitioning. I wish we knew more about how to differentiate between these two groups.
Absolutely. My intention is not to stop people from transitioning. I think that in some cases it can lead to a better life for some. But I do think that too many young people are being pushed into this identity and treatment when it is not right for them. More research and more strict requirements are necessary to minimize those casualties.
You are looking fabulous Alexander, so proud of you. You are doing an excellent job.💕
Great information, thanks for sharing this
I‘m really grateful for people like you who are courageous enough to stand up and face the storm, without being right wing conservatives. I am watching the diversity movement with growing concern, no one seems to be able to take uncomfortable discussions anymore pretending to want everybody’s good. But every adult person knows that going ahead always means coming to some point where you need to be told that you might be wrong about something. Especially when it comes to feelings. We need to communicate on the basis of rationality and respect, which surely doesn’t mean affirming everything others will say.
Great video, keep it up.
Thanks for sharing, brave soul!
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very nuanced. Thank you!
ur funny! hope to see more vids from you about this topic and maybe other topic as well
I speculate now too. I think that you agree with me that not all men are machos and not all women are girly girls. There are girls who don't care about makeup or wearing beautiful dresses and they may feel like they don't fit in if they have had classmates who are much more like girly girls. But it is mostly important to belong to a group for girls in teenage years. And if you don't fit in, you'll be ignored. Then you find these transactivists - hey, you belong to us, you are actually a boy, we are your real family. (Like Britney Spears' fan armada. You don''t need your family, we are your family.) And women are more conformist and influenced by others. And then this unhappy tomboy finds herself in situation where it seems that transactivists are the only ones who really understand her, real life seems far, she does not have so many good experiences of real life friends, maybe she has some other traumas or psychological problems too. Being young is not always easy. And that's why I think that as Britney's fans maybe committed a crime with best purpose so may transactivists think that they fight for rights and eguality but actually they make vulnerable young people to submit to mass conformity. Actually for me it is very weird to see transwomen with long nails, full makeup, constantly touching their hair, trying to be very talkative. Hey I am a real woman,, totally cis-gender, heterosexual, mother of two daughters - and I don't act like that. I find it ridiculous! It's a false impression of being a woman. And I think that these young girls who consider themselves transmen may have false impression of being man too.
My guesses for girls transitioning. 1. Homophobia. 2. Internalised misogyny from society and a way to escape it.3. higher status by being seen as male. 4.being autistic and not fitting in at school. 5. Complex mental health and trauma being given the solution of transition.
I think you mentioned all the main reasons.
Also, testosterone makes dysphoric people feel more calm and in control. Estrogen does the opposite
Yes!! Exactly. Also, I think PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) doesn't get talked about enough in the FtM discourse. It is very, very distressing and is sometimes treated with testosterone (which can explain the girls' positive response from taking it), however it doesn't mean you also have gender dysphoria, it's a dysphoria that happens as a result of your menstrual cycle.
You will likely experience frustration w/ being a woman because society will likely shame you instead of help you with your symptoms (anger, irritability, self-hatred, dissociation,sensitivity, volatility,etc.), but it doesn't mean you want to be a man.
I am in treatment for it (psych meds+therapy, not T) and it has been life-changing.
the answer is pretty simple, i think. as times goes by and transgender ppl are more accepted, more people dare to question and explore their genders. some people just discover its not for them, thats all
The whole point of transitioning kids is for them to look more like the opposite sex. So basically to look prettier as a trans woman and to become more manly for trans men. There is no good reason others than appearance for kids to transition. The trade off for the benefits of early transitioning is life long health problems!
I guess just allow a gender dysphoric kid to suffer for a decade isn't such a bad idea. I guess they'll miss out on all of the social interactions that they'd have if they integrated as who they are mentally but that doesn't really matter to you. You've never been gender dysphoric and hopefully you never become the parent of a teen who has that issue.
@@DorianPaige00 Therapy and social transition can go far.
Good luck to you! You're very brave ❤️❤️❤️
The increase in FTM is due to social contagion and the high propensity for teenage girls to experience body dysmorphia anyway. Imagine if we treated anorexia by "affirming" their body image with appetite suppressants! That is essentially what we're doing now with a lot of these trans kids.
There's an excellent article, published in February by Jamie Reed: *I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.* It's a long read, but well worth the effort. I highly recommend it.
You're a great person.keep being your wonderful self❤
Thank you.
Brilliant video
9:46 it’s called social contagion. Teenage girls are well know for this especially now thanks TikTok, but even inside friend groups, you’ll notice they follow along with what the others are doing. This can happen and has happened many times with eating disorders, ticks, other mental illness etc. they don’t actually have this whatever is in trend at the moment, but it’s more about being part of the group. That’s what makes this trans thing so dangerous.
The number 1% of those who regret is actualy from the year 1993 when there was no "affirmative care"...
Praying. Keep strong ❤
Your such a beautiful man Alexander and so very smart too.. you have gained a new sub. Also I love your accent. Luv from Australia 🇦🇺 😊
Thank you.
I wirk security at a local hospital that gets a fair few people wanting reassignment surgery. Was talking with a doctor who said that he hates it when young people come in to transition because they can't perform their duty of care or the hospital will get sued for discrimination. They have to be all "yep let's get you booked in!" They can't ask about mental illness, if they have depression, they can't prescribe a waiting period for them to really think it over and they can't ask if they've been a part of any online trans-focussed groups (because they're well known to be liars who deliberately give a false image of what it's like to transition) and they can't give accurate information, like that the surgery is irreversible l, that their new genitals will be non-functioning and they'll effectively be sterilised.
Seeing that, in order to get gender confirmation surgery, you have to meet a LOT of requirements, including being on HRT for at least a year, living as your preferred gender for at least a year, getting at least one (usually two) letters from psychologist/psychiatrists stating that you have gender dysphoria and know all the possible outcomes and side effects of the surgery....yea, I don't think people are getting signed up willie-nillie for the surgery, only to change their minds later on. Anyone having the surgery is told what happens, what the complications could be, what the necessities of life and upkeep would be. Anyone saying "I didn't know I'd be sterile" after fully transitioning is either outright lying, didn't listen to or read the information given to them by their providers, or was served by a doctor that should not be practicing medicine.
What you are saying simply isn’t true. Those things may have been required to schedule surgery before but they aren’t now. A diagnosis of gender dysphoria isn’t even needed to get cross sex hormones. Surgeries are scheduled after a short consultation, sometimes on Zoom. No letters from a therapist are needed. If they are, many therapist will write a letter after 1 or 2 sessions. The fact is, there are no safeguards in place anymore. An 18 year old can walk into Planned Parenthood, sign consent, and get cross sex hormones on the first visit. If you don’t believe me, listen to a few detransitioners.
@@acsamom As someone that has recently had said surgeries, I can speak from first hand experience that what I am saying is 100% true. Don't know where you're getting your information from, but it is patently wrong. Sorry, your sources are simply lying to you, or you are reading partisan misinformation.
@@CorinaVR No, they aren’t lying. I have multiple sources telling me the same thing. I know for a fact you can go to Planned Parenthood, sign consent, and get cross sex hormones on the 2nd if not the first visit. You see, PP announced themselves as a GA care provider in my local, statewide newspaper. Are they lying? Maybe you had safeguards in place where you are. I know we don’t here. There is no exclusionary criteria to getting access to hormones and surgery. I know of people who have a history of cancer, before hormones, who were given hormones despite their history. A paper just came out suggesting that trans men continue to take testosterone during pregnancy despite the fact that it’s contraindicated during pregnancy. That means being pregnant doesn’t exclude one from cross sex hormones. That’s horrifying. You don’t have to believe me. Feel free to live in your bubble, blind to what is going on. You won’t be alone in that stance.
I work with the general public, so I know or have known several transmen (around 5 - 10.) All of them are very short-statured and petite, even for an average woman. I had my theory before hearing your story, but your story confirms my theory in my my mind. I think, as petite women, they were bullied, taken advantage of, and even sexually assaulted. So since society views men as stronger, they decided to transition with the belief that they would then be able to protect themselves and be safer. But admittedly, my theory is based on my anecdotal experiences. Obviously, there are transmen who are not short and petite compared to the average woman. So maybe I'm way off base, but as to why so many girls/young women are deciding to transition at an increased rate, I think my theory has some merit.
Hello, Alexander. I really like the way you summarize the lack of statistics of this topic. I'm a statistician and public officer in Brazil. The trans issue is growing here. I would imagine the developed countries may have more organized data on this. I know statistics could be used to ideological or political purposes, but it blowns my mind how little we know about detransition and why. I undestand why activists for trans rights are afraid of these informations, but I'm sure will be worse not to understand the causes of transition regret.
literally thought this was onision until i watched 5 seconds
Same 😂 I was like, is this Gregs younger brother or what?
Am I really the only person that can't concentrate on what you are saying because of the background music ? :o( I really need to watch this so I'll try on another day !
Thanks for letting me now. I like having background music in my videos but perhaps the volume was too high on this one.
I really hope you see this Alexander. I think your a beautiful, wonderful person.
Thank you so much.
While those are some interesting points, there is one constraint in the study (the one that has established the 30% share of people not taking hormons anymore) that I found a bit... questionable, namely:
> """Roberts et al examined rates of continuation of gender-affirming hormones among TGD adolescents and adults in the U.S. Military Healthcare System (1). The study sample included 627 transmasculine and 325 transfeminine individuals who were children or spouses of active-duty, retired, or deceased military members."""
This is a _very_ specific group and I really question whether this group can be really representative of trans people or trans youth throughout the world, because of two main reasons:
I don't really know how the US Military Healthcare System is structured, but I would expect it to be quite expensive, like the whole US Healthcare System in general. So I am pretty sure that saving money can be a big contributor to not continue hormone therapy. Again, maybe the Military Healthcare System in particular is more affordable due to it being the military, but savings and finance are always the first things coming into my mind when seeing US Healthcare.
Secondly, while this may be based on my stereotypes concerning the military and its members, I wouldn't dismiss the idea that toxic masculinity and a very... tight grip on gender roles could play a significant role why detransitioning might happen in such circles more often. At the very least I'm pretty sure that US Military Veteran Families are quite a different social circle compared to the Norwegian society and that may or may not influence the percentages.
On a different note, is the transmasculine group with the significant lower percentage of ~60% consisting of MtF or FtM-Peers? I would have assumed the latter, but I'm not sure.
And like... except for those first listed percentages, the other evaluated figures of detransitioning mentioned in the study are much lower than 30%. Study 3 from Valencia, Spain reports 8 people detransitioning among 796 (-> ~1,01%), Study 4 from the US states that that would be 8%, with the adults in question already having lived a fair share of their lives as transgender people and thus not omitting the detransitioning people after medical treatment, what was rightly critiqued in the video, at least as far as I understood this study.
I also find it interesting that this study _does_ agree with the general notion of trans activists that detransition actually does stem from social stigma:
> """The most common reasons cited were pressure from a parent (36%), transitioning was too hard (33%), too much harassment or discrimination (31%), and trouble getting a job (29%)"""
... the only thing I can conclude would be that the topic is veeeeery complex and needs much more studies and research. And I hope that my remarks don't come off as being offensive, I personally find it messed up how little support detransitioners get, but I really don't think that speaking of "big pharma" and a "trans lobby" (and thus more or less appropriating conservative to right-wing rhetoric) is of any use either. People have to be first and foremost always informed and supported, which may include transitioning or doesn't, so that detransitioning doesn't have to happen in the first place. Furthermore, even when it then occurs, support has to be guarranted. But well, that's just what I believe.
It's good to be skeptical and not pass final judgments... All this is new info and it's going to take more info and time to evaluate.
Thank you for bringing up such a good point. I agree that this study is not enough to arrive at a final conclusion but I still find it interesting and it's challenging the previous paradigm when it comes to transition. More research is needed and yes, it's a very specific group that doesn't necessarily represents the entire of trans population. Personally I think that the overall number is not as high as the study suggests but higher than what the left wants us to believe.
The left just goes with science at this point, it's the right that interpret data in such a way to unethically cut off transgender healthcare.
Alex. Thanks for sharing. In case you haven’t heard already, the UK’s National Health Service will start proper, evidence based clinical trials into the effects of puberty blockers. The trial will only involve people with early-onset dysphoria, so that probably means they are not even considering medicating the large rapid-onset cohort that’s probably due to social contagion. Proper clinical trials will involve control groups, detransitioners, dropouts, aftercare, etc.
Thankfully they shut down the gender identity clinic that had been hijacked by trans activists. In due time they should be able to produce robust and unbiased data on this aspect of transitioning.
Keep speaking out!
I know. I make sure to keep up with everything that's going on there.
@@alexanderl9721 I’ve noticed that practitioners in the US and Europe often refer to what’s happening in the UK. Hopefully, policymakers who haven’t bought into the trans ideology will have good reason to hit the pause button on the medical transition of minors.
how can I contact you for an interview? (not on social media, would be in written form)
thank you a lot for raising awareness!
You can contact me on Twitter: twitter.com/AleXenomorpheus
@@alexanderl9721 oh, I do not have twitter.. I will ask friends, if they are on it, or can I find your Mailadd anywhere?
Would like to show you what I wrote already, so that you can see, if it is ok for you. It is in german though, but should work with Google translate.
If interview is too complicated, I could also quote you, if you want, I listened to everything you said
@@rastafahrer I would like to hear more about the article you're writing. I'm assuming it's an article, correct me me if i wrong. Do you have an e-mail so I can contact you? I like to know as much as possible about why people want to write about my story and what they wish to achieve with it before I agree to an interview.
@@alexanderl9721 I am sorry every version I tried to communicate the ad ress got deleted
It is my name, together without a point and then what one needs to write comments on RUclips
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@@alexanderl9721 I have to finish the article quiet soon. Will quote your important messages and link to your video, if this is ok for you (imo the only way, people can start to see, what is going on, is when they can be made to feel the pain of the ones who were or are on this path. Pain can be a good bridge between human beings, sadly.)
But if you still would like to do the interview, would be my first, I can update the article in the future.
Thank you again from all my heart for opening up!
Hi, great article in the Norwegian newspaper VG, it was painful to see what you had to endure, hope you are in a happy/better place now. I’m gay, and I must say, I’m so sad that the trans narrative have completely overtaken and overshadowed what was Lgb organizations in the past, I don’t know what happened but everything is about trans and gender now, I don’t understand why we all should be put in to one box when same sex attraction and trans is completely different in my opinion. This is hard words, but I feel that we are being slaughtered on the trans altar to put forth an agenda that wants to change how we view gender in society, and I want nothing to do with it, like many with me. It actually put many of us away, LGBTQ don’t speak for me, that’s for sure. You are pushed out of you say anything! It’s insane! I was very feminine as a boy and often felt like a girl, but everything changed for me when I hit puberty, to stop puberty in children should be illegal! Thank you for speaking out! When that is said, I absolutely don’t hate trans people or want them harm in any way, but I don’t want to be part of an organization that say that gender is what you feel like……
I feel the same way. It's hard to identify with an movement that does all those things. Years ago conservatives were saying that this will lead to us coming after kids. We had one job, prove them wrong.
Anyway, if you want you can get in touch with me on Messenger. I've started a Facebook group group for Norwegian straight and queer people against this madness. PM me if you're interested.
True, but I feel that many conservatives often hinted that we are paedo or something, the coming after kids thing is creepy as hell and makes me personally extremely uncomfortable. Homosexuality is about same sex attraction between grown consenting adults, when some conservatives like Marjorie Taylor Green stand there and call us all paedo it’s honestly disgusting and insane. There are conservatives that I absolutely don’t agree with, and liberals I don’t agree with, a balance is best. I don’t personally think that gay individuals try to change kids, actually almost all of my friends are horrified about what is happening, it’s just the LGBTQ who think they speak for all of us. That’s my opinion. I will follow….thanks….😊
@@aquajuwel7098 Absolutely. Most gay and bisexual people and even a good portion of trans people don't have bad intentions and just want to live their lives in peace and do their thing.
I saw a male-to-female talking about dilation. I made a comment about how long you have to dilate for? They responded back to me and said, just about a year! After doing research you have to do it for the rest of your life maybe not as much but, you still have to! Correct me if I'm wrong...
Alexander: Since you are doing research on this, I wonder if you can ask a highly personal question that you've discussed before in detail but not in this video. Could you ask these detransitioners (who in part where younger when they transitioned) how being early (like borderline precocious) or late-bloomer played into any of their decisions? I assume when one gets called out it makes you self conscious of something you've already known. It confirms that everyone else sees something that you are uncomfortable with. It's such a difficult time that perhaps if one was in the middle, they'd feel uncomfortable as well but maybe not to that extent.
I've thrown harsh comments your way about this and I'm sorry. I was somebody who was borderline precocious and I didn't like it. It took about 6 months (when I was pre-teen) to determine that I didn't want to go at all in the male direction and was hellbent on stopping it through starvation which I mostly did especially in height and frame area. I know you were the opposite and felt you were waiting for a train that never arrived. It can relate to being uncomfortable and it can shut you down.
I'm having facial surgery and just a few months ago, I realized that if the surgeon made me the prettiest female, I'd be highly disappointed. I've always known deep down what I wanted and when it came time to take a step in the hyper-feminine direction, I backed off every time especially if it was something permanent. I think the most radical things I did was carry a purse and get a traditional ear piercing. Three months ago somebody asked me "how would my body ideally be?". The most encouraging words this person said to me is that "you always knew who you were." That really resonated with me and I'm acknowledging the shift that my transition has always taken from the normal male to female transition. I identify now as a trans-feminine eunuch but I do feel a bit betrayed by doctors as when I initially said I want estrogen but to present as male I got denied hormones multiple times. Then I played the "I am woman" card and got them but almost for a second believed it myself. That's scary but deep down I knew.
Seems like you had a rough journey yourself. It's okay, I didn't perceive your comments as harsh. Just honest. Honesty is needed for proper conversations, otherwise we don't really get anywhere. It seems to me that you are on a path of accepting yourself. Whatever form may that path take, I wish you all the best.
There needs to be honest conversation about this subject so people can have the best healthcare possible.
Indeed.
As a female, I think females are transitioning more because of internal violence/abuse. Last years especially I am witnessing and feel the abuse rise, not necessarily in crime rates. In commentaries, in podcasts on anti-feminism. And the idea of female identity itself became unstable. We have highly, HIGHLY fetishized female image that wasn't overcome, moreover sexual freedom idea is hurting people who face negative experience (I am not against freedom, I mean it is not perfect) . At the same time the feminism side of women identity has became queer or radicalised. So women who may be hurt from violence or abuse, bodey image and other things find meaning in surgery, not in female rights or problems.
My daughter had no dad in the home she had to watch me struggle she witnessed men hurting me in one way or another and sometimes I wonder if she didn’t transition because being a woman made her feel too vulnerable I really don’t know it’s just a thought. I really don’t think she is happier.
Many of the "stats" around reasons for detransition, are gleaned from patients responding to multiple choice questionaires, where the actual reason the person may have deransitioned, (that they had a major shift in their awareness, that their personality, interests and social or career goals are not defined by their biological sex, hence there is now no reason to attempt to gain affirmation from others as the opposite sex ) is not an answer provided by these multiple choice questions.
Most detransitioning statistics say that there is more than 1%. Most say I think around 5% of a regret rate, which is more than the left. And the reasons lots of the time were not because of social pressure, though that was one possible of the reasons why in many of the studies that have been done. It may be the main reason for most of them, but definitely not 99% of the time is social pressure the reason they detransitioned in most studies. That was just one article I read and there are other studies that say otherwise. Many studies are contradicting each other because this is a new field of research. I am not 100% sure who is right about the detransition phenomenon, the left or the right, just yet. I don't have sufficient information to give an opinion on whether it is social contagion that is causing a rise in gender-diverse people or if it's just people being more comfortable coming out. Someone who knows if it's social contagion or just a more trans-friendly environment these days has got to know a lot more than I do.
As a trans woman I was ready to to cut ties with family had they not accepted me. I have nothing against detransitioners as I know there are some who were not trans in the first place. The actual number of trans people in existence is a much higher than studies show. No one knows how many trans people are trans who are self medicating. I personally believe both the left and right are wrong. We do need more educated mental health providers after all their are many who are not allowed to transition who should as well. I knew from the age of 5 I was in the wrong body but do to a lack of information I did not even know transgender people existed until I was 19. I was raised in the US in the bible belt in the 1980's and 1990's. Surprisingly I have been accepted by most I come across in public as a woman. Do to a lack of coverage and lack of funds I have had no surgeries yet working on finding a way to cover bottom surgery now though. I forced my self to live as a man until 2018 do to my lack of a way to fund my transition I started wanting to die because of my dysphoria and my discriminatory job when they claimed I (despite being the best cook there according to the customers) was being lazy and fired me. In late 2018 started living in the roll and got a new job. In 2021 I started HRT and this year got my letter from a therapist so I could get my surgery covered by my insurance. Sadly for me the parent company that owns the company I work for requested that all trans related health care be excluded from the health plans they offer.
Proper vetting and rigorous WPATH requirements keep adolescents who transition with low detransition rates as adults. Those requirements make sure that only those who can benefit from gender transition are allowed to accept treatment. This proves that these pediatricians and endocrinologist have high ethics and that gender affirming care does work.
Yes, transitioners' brains are fully there. Many now have masters and doctorate degrees and almost all live productive lives. The teens who are gender dysphoric who do not get treatment have a much tougher time, struggle socially, and their brains have issues from the forced trauma that their parents have inflicted upon them.
Yes, those requirements made sure that as few people as possible get the wrong treatment. Sadly, we are moving away from WPATH and it may be the cause why more people regret that decision.
No their brains are not there until at least 25. No they are not leading productive lives, only the ones you see publicly. And productive life does not mean quality of life. Yes, changing the body is a cure for body dysmorphic disorder. For example, the woman who identifies as an amputee, hates her leg, does not feel like her leg is part of her, she is cured and feels complete after her leg is amputated. In clinical practice, there is less cases of body dysmorphic disorder recently as they go to surgeons nowadays for treatment, not psychologists.
@@atheistbewildered2987 So then why are 18-25 year olds free to go in the army if their brains aren't developed. Don't you think the government is taking advantage of underage youth by doing this since you believe they aren't able to consent? You've taken the Ramaswamy argument where you shouldn't get your adult citizenship until 25 because you ain't there in the head but an exception can be made if you go off to war and fight which invalidates the whole argument or paints the one making it as a monster. Student loans that are signed before 25 then I guess can't be enforced as they couldn't consent. Maybe we'll send you the bill for that one. Do you think all marriages before 25 should be invalidated or just the gay ones? Your grift is thick, man.
How many people do you know were medical amputees? What is wrong with hormonal transition?
Yeah i mentioned that 30 percent statistics about stopping meds on Twitter, but a TRA shot back at how people stop to have kids or other reasons so maybe not all the 30% actually detrans. It's actually a decent counterargument, but still it points that there are many destransitioners.
A++ - good jugglings!
Parasite Eve music? Nice.
Also informative!
Er du norsk? Jeg så forrige videoen din, og det er helt forferdelig hva som skjer med unge mennesker som istedet for kirurgi, trenger hjelp med det mentale.
Jeg er polsk men har bodd I Norge i 14 år nå. Og ja, helt enig.
this comment of yours might have been in your first video, where you mentioned' it is more the material world where our genders exist.' well, this is 'spiritual knowledge' that many/most are not ready for, that is not a criticism of them, just a fact. So one's level of Consciousness is a factor in all of this, in all of everything. your consciousness level may be higher than most, even tho you had to go through an excruciating experience of mistakes, deception, meanness/bullying, victimization and ego keeping you from following your knowing on the gurney before the surgery, still something in you is Awake to Truth, while other parts of you have not caught up. this in my experience is true, even of the spiritual teachers i've had. bottomline, humanness takes a long time, lifetimes, to cultivate, master, it is a conglomeration of Knowing and Not Knowing simultaneously which we deal with inside ourselves, and others. not easy, not automatic. i'm glad you are developing your voice and sharing, spreading your perspectives from Who you are consciousness-wise and what you've experienced, which has taught and backs up, validates your perspectives for the sake of helping others, protecting others, informing others Particularly Parents, who are clueless and want to be positively supportive and Doctors who are likely caught in the status/money game, which is why they chose the profession in the first place, + the pressure and image of their families, communities and the expectations they were conditioned to meet. i would like to be a therapist but do not want the training and professional track that exists today. it's ludicrous, criminal. Not a high Awareness level~
Well said.
My problem medical background, empath. I see it's hard for you to sit I know it's from you operations. It's hard for you too speak because of damage to your vocal cords. But a lovely man with the an accent. I'm educating myself. I'm saying people have hurt themselves. I'm here I want to learn more. You are light for us all.
Why isn’t the question being asked, should people be allowed to do this in the first place? This is having a terrible effect on society. You can’t just alleviate one persons pain at the expense of everyone else.
8:26 The seemingly lower de-transitioning rate in those who start hormones before age 18 can be the result of many things.
1) They are not actually followed up properly and the numbers are misleading.
2) They may have more pressure not to de-transition because they had the support of their families.
3) They might have already had SRS and from there a male who had top and bottom surgery has no real path to turn back. They will have to live their lives on artificial hormones and they will never get their genitals back. Shape Shifter is the good example, he, by now tells he is a gay man who looks like a woman and he cannot change that back, ever.
Same for women who had double mastectomy early on because of the hormones and might also had their organs removed. Their de-transitioning is not really possible anymore, unless they just stop taking testosterone and switch back to estrogen and we consider that de-transitioning.
Imo, these numbers are most probably misleading.
Shapeshifter wear make-up and presents as a cross-dressing gay man. So there's a gender bender on top of a detransition there.
Detransition is a mental shift not a physiological one. It doesn't require any further surgeries. It may require exogenous hormone therapy if their gonads have been removed.
Ones natal sex is simply what we are, not WHO we are.
Trans is not who one is. It is something one does.
I'd be offended at the _AMERICAN_ conservative drawing there if it wasn't so damn hilarious and true...🥴
Honestly, the whole subject is quite confusing, Is hard to say.
there some data suggesting that gender dysphoria does happen in younger homosexual that later become happy homosexual adults.
there also a argument that is like body dysphoria and that people will keep going on and on seeking it.
And the new data that tell us Sex maybe be more of a spectrum and gender is even more so.
Also those discussion about what is a man, what is a woman, what make a male, what makes a female.
So far I quite open to new perspectives, however i say we need much more evidence and much better theories, we should not keep changing our theories to fit the data and stuff, that is absurd.
I also have come to one single hard stance on the subject, that transwomen should not have kids, in my opinion that is too risky for two living being and that being sterile does not make a woman less of a woman.
I just do not like the risk involved.
The lack of data is generally because gender clinics don’t keep rigorous data (the UK’s GIDS Tavistock is an infamous example) and also that there are few longitudinal studies of people who present to gender clinics. The explosion in numbers on waiting lists worldwide has generally happened after 2015 (even more in 2020 and beyond) so any results from longitudinal studies won’t be known yet.
Someone who detransitions because of social stigma doesn't really detransition. They just stop taking their medicine because they can't afford it typically WITHOUT THE INTENT of detransitioning. They don't brag about it because they hope to pick up where they left off at a later time and this admittance would show their inadequacy.
I guess you just want them to live a decade as their in-authentic self (natal sex). I guess it's only a decade of your life when it's essential to make friendships and learn about life. Oh well. Let's send them through the meat grinder and see if they can survive. You've obviously never had gender issues and hopefully you won't be the parent of one or a parent period.
When you say "most people" which data are you drawing this conclusion from?
Last Christmas, Jackson
Hell yeah, more Star Trek references!
Huge respect to you for criticizing both the left and the right on this issue without demonizing anyone in the process ❤
I hope you will start keeping data on the detransitioners who contact you. My husband did sex trait alteration surgery 30 years ago--now, as a trans widow, I collect data on our experiences. There are patterns which are the result of the psychologists' language, grooming for hormones and surgeries, and the way they dismiss the concerns of family members. While collecting numbers for your own group won't get published in a peer reviewed journal, those who hear the patterns you've uncovered will start asking the mental health profession questions regarding their policies.
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We're doomed! *DOOMED!!* I tell Ya!
Imo its more cause the ones who had transitioned had done so through peer pressure and subliminal messages
Partially, yes. There are several reasons as to why someone would transition or detransition.
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You have your left and right the wrong way round. Identity and individualism comes from the right, while collectivism, the idea that we function in society as members of defined classes comes from the left. This is obvious when we talk about social classes, but works for sex classes as well. United we stand, divided we fall... and the 'division' is 'identity', it atomises people and leaves them to stand (or fall) on their own. I really do wish more people could see that the right-wing in this conversation are those pushing identity politics, which may explain why they have fallen so easily into authoritarianism, compelled speech and thought-policing, they are at the very least incipient fascists.
Alexander, I am sorrowful and angry about the medical abuse to which you have been subjected. I would like to encourage you to consider writing a book much like the one titled Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier. Your personal experiences plus perhaps interviews with others who have transitioned or detransitioned would be invaluable (as are your videos).
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Have my trillions likes for thinking! Always been a rare thing, still a rare one. Being cool’s always been more successful than being thoughtful. Still the case despite the liberal “win” perspective on our world.
I’m sorry this is funny 😂 1:23
Gay frogs …. Oh goodness
But was AJ really wrong?
I know this video is mostly for Americans viewers, but I don't think you have to explain such a simple concept as ratio.
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Lol you’re quite funny!