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Transition Regret and Detransition: Meanings and Uncertainties.
Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Experience of a Gender Identity Unit in Spain (2015-2023): Trends, Treatments, Surgeries, and Detransitions.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Beyond and through the body: Subjective experiences of gender dysphoria across bodily and social dimensions.International journal of transgender health · 2026Article
- In defense of Brazil's resolution on transgender healthcare.Nature medicine · 2025Article
- A Critique of the Cass Review and the Implications of "Gender Restrictive Care".Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Review
- Narratives of Adults Registered Female at Birth Who Started a Medical Transition and Later Detransitioned.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Experiences of Transformation: The Challenges of Gender Transition for Transgender Women in Pakistan.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Gender dysphoria in adolescence: examining the rapid-onset hypothesis.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2025Review
- Understanding harms associated with gender identity conversion efforts among transgender and nonbinary individuals: The role of preexisting mental well-being.International journal of transgender health · 2025Article
- Grappling with the complexities of gender transition interruptions: Toward conceptual clarity on "detransitioning" experiences.International journal of transgender health · 2025Review
- Supporting autonomy in young people with gender dysphoria: psychotherapy is not conversion therapy.Journal of medical ethics · 2024Article
- Discontinuing hormonal gender reassignment: a nationwide register study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for gender dysphoria is not conversion therapy.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2024Article
- Puberty Suppression for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria and the Child's Right to an Open Future.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- A retrospective analysis of the gender trajectories of youth who have discontinued a transition.International journal of transgender health · 2024Article
- The Detransition Rate Is Unknown.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- A qualitative metasummary of detransition experiences with recommendations for psychological support.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Gender transition is undertaken to improve the well-being of people suffering from gender dysphoria. However, some have argued that the evidence supporting medical interventions for gender transition (e.g., hormonal therapies and surgery) is weak and inconclusive, and an increasing number of people have come forward recently to share their experiences of transition regret and detransition. In this essay, I discuss emerging clinical and research issues related to transition regret and detransition with the aim of arming clinicians with the latest information so they can support patients navigating the challenges of regret and detransition. I begin by describing recent changes in the epidemiology of gender dysphoria, conceptualization of transgender identification, and models of care. I then discuss the potential impact of these changes on regret and detransition; the prevalence of desistance, regret, and detransition; reasons for detransition; and medical and mental healthcare needs of detransitioners. Although recent data have shed light on a complex range of experiences that lead people to detransition, research remains very much in its infancy. Little is known about the medical and mental healthcare needs of these patients, and there is currently no guidance on best practices for clinicians involved in their care. Moreover, the term detransition can hold a wide array of possible meanings for transgender-identifying people, detransitioners, and researchers, leading to inconsistences in its usage. Moving forward, minimizing harm will require conducting robust research, challenging fundamental assumptions, scrutinizing of practice patterns, and embracing debate.
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