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Can you imagine having a sub called "de-gay" or "de-black"? It'd be destroyed in a second
ha, the concept is a bit strange - we're not at a place where people understand that being trans isn't a choice (just like being gay), so there is a real comparison between the "ex-gay" movement and the push for detransition.
To be fair, there are people who detransition, most of them only because they don't have enough support in their lives to transition. It is difficult to transition, and sometimes just not possible when your employer discriminates against you and fires you, and your spouse leaves you, and your family and friends turn their backs on you, etc. - this leads people to decide to detransition. A lot of those people transition again later in life.
So I don't think it's necessarily wrong for there to be a community for people detransitioning - their experiences and needs are worth discussing (esp. when detransitioning can be met with such strong reactions from other trans people). The /r/actual_detrans subreddit for a while was a trans-affirming detrans space, but increasingly I feel it has been infected (it's hard to keep the TERFs out I guess).
But because it's a political weapon the anti-trans movement co-opts those detrans spaces and they try to push narratives that trans people don't really exist (or are far rarer) and that detransitioners are just the ones who came to their senses and realized what they were doing was a mistake.
I think you hit the nail on the head regarding it being a political weapon, and that's why you're seeing an increase in numbers. This is manufactured consent for their narrative appearing to be genuine. Dead internet theory is alive and well in corporate social media.
You make a valid point about detransing trans needing support. It's a shame people going through that get brainwashed by people who see them as beneath them.
detranstioning does happen when it's not about support, though it's pretty rare and not at all like those people say it is.
Knew a trans guy (pre HRT) that decided that enby fit them better. Now they dress up as princesses for children's birthdays on the side, iirc they are majoring in marine biology but I haven't talked to them in years so not 100% sure.
Yeah that's the other major group. The narrative that the right likes is the rare situation of "person identifies as trans for a long enough time to have hrt/surgery and later realizes they're cis".
yes, it does happen - but it's a minority within a minority. Detransitioners are already like 1% of people who transition (which are already only like 1% of the general population), and those who detransition because they weren't trans are a minority of that 1% of a 1%.