There's a new word entering the LGBT alphabet soup lexicon. Detransphobia is a bias against people who started or completed the process of trying to become the opposite gender but changed their minds and want to change back.
According to a study published in The International Journal of Transgender Health, which was covered in an article by the National Post, the entire support system that likely pushed the young person to change is nowhere to be found if they want to change back.
Dr. Kurt Miceli of Do No Harm says that the study finds that detransitioning is not uncommon.
“The study's authors for the paper refence note that the prevalence of detransitioners could be as high as 30%,” says Miceli
He says the authors admit the initial desire to change is sometimes brought on by social pressure.
“They acknowledge that for some, gender dysphoria was really the product of social or mental health factors like trauma,” says Miceli.
M.D. Perkins, author and producer of the American Family Studio (AFS) documentary “In His Image,” says that detransitioners are abandoned when they are no longer useful.
“The truth is that, when people no longer fit the narrative, the left runs out of use for them,” says Perkins.
Most of the detransitioners in the study were not trying to go back to the gender that God created them. Some want to identify as gay or queer or nonbinary, but Perkins says it does present an opportunity.
“Even though the detransition process will be messy and it may not be spiritually motivated, we would hope and pray that this person, who's detransitioning, would find lasting hope and healing in the gospel of Jesus Christ,” says Perkins.
