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Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults.
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- The lived experience of trans persons: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2026Article
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- Sociodemographic and Mental Health Characteristics of Adults with Different Gender Trajectories.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
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- A Latent Class Analysis of Interrupted Gender Transitions and Detransitions in the USA and Canada.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- The Cass Review and Gender-Related Care for Young People in Canada: A Commentary on the Canadian Paediatric Society Position Statement on Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Stability After Legal Gender Change Among Adults With Gender Dysphoria.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Female Autoandrophilia.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Distress Profiles of Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: A Cluster Analysis Approach.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Female Autoandrophilia.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Psychometric Evidence That Paraphilia Is a Natural Kind.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Narratives of Adults Registered Female at Birth Who Started a Medical Transition and Later Detransitioned.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- Introducing Novel Methods to Identify Fraudulent Responses (Sampling With Sisyphus): Web-Based LGBTQ2S+ Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Gender dysphoria in adolescence: examining the rapid-onset hypothesis.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2025Review
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Abstract
Persons who have renounced a prior transgender identification, often after some degree of social and medical transition, are increasingly visible. We recruited 78 US individuals ages 18-33 years who previously identified as transgender and had stopped identifying as transgender at least six months prior. On average, participants first identified as transgender at 17.1 years of age and had done so for 5.4 years at the time of their participation. Most (83%) participants had taken several steps toward social transition and 68% had taken at least one medical step. By retrospective reports, fewer than 17% of participants met DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria in Childhood. In contrast, 53% of participants believed that "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" applied to them. Participants reported a high rate of psychiatric diagnoses, with many of these prior to trans-identification. Most participants (N = 71, 91%) were natal females. Females (43%) were more likely than males (0%) to be exclusively homosexual. Participants reported that their psychological health had improved dramatically since detransition/desistance, with marked decreases in self-harm and gender dysphoria and marked increases in flourishing. The most common reason given for initial trans-identification was confusing mental health issues or reactions to trauma for gender dysphoria. Reasons for detransition were more likely to reflect internal changes (e.g., the participants' own thought processes) than external pressures (e.g., pressure from family). Results suggest that, for some transgender individuals, detransition is both possible and beneficial.
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