Study: 92% of detransitioners were AFAB, 2% didn't have gender dysphoria
There is nothing surprising with these results. It matches really well will what i have observed looking at various detransition spaces but of course a formal study is better.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2021.1919479
body dysphoria & social dysphoria: 84%
only body dysphoria: 8%
Only social dysphoria: 6%
no dysphoria: 2%
Unfortunately the study did not separate AMAB from AFAB individuals and this was 92% detrans females, we can still even from this conclude most AMAB detransitioners had some form of dysphoria but it's very far from ideal.
Previous studies had shown detransition to be largely due to lack of social support but this survey had a different result
34 participants (14%) added a variety of other reasons such as absence or desistance of gender dysphoria, fear of surgery, mental health concerns related to treatment, shift in gender identity, lack of medical support, dangerosity of being trans, acceptance of homosexuality and gender non-conformity, realization of being pressured to transition by social surroundings, fear of surgery complications, worsening of gender dysphoria, discovery of radical feminism, changes in religious beliefs, need to reassess one’s decision to transition, and realization of the impossibility of changing sex.
Realization that my gender dysphoria was related to other issues
In reality of course you as an individual cannot really know why you have gender dysphoria, you may attribute it to something like innate neurological condition or that something happened to you but you as an individual cannot actually test that.
TERFs have been heavily pushing the notion that sexualization of females or sexual abuse would cause gender dysphoria but there isn't actually any evidence for that. If someone has gender dysphoria and also happened to have been groped she before the onset of dysphoria she may attribute the dysphoria to that even though it wasn't the actual cause of it, it just happens to conveniently fit with the
TERF ideology.
Furthermore, two respondents highlighted the need to look into individual experiences and needs without forcing them into a rigid model of transition.
This is already a thing in the trans community. It's often referred to as "non-binary".
Some people who just struggle with dysphoria already go for the bare-minimum to deal with that and do not really socially transition.
A few respondents rightly criticized the fact that the option of medically transitioning only was not available in the questionnaire.
It's common knowledge that many people begin with medical transition without starting social transition, there is really no excuse for not including it in the survey.
Let me know if there is any better study published regarding this.
realization of the impossibility of changing sex
This makes me further question the motives of the individuals who conducted this study. They are essentially condoning science-denial.
https://www.reddit.com/r/transmaxxing/comments/maoo5k/hrt_changes_your_biological_sex/
You of course limited in how far you can transition but just HRT alone can do a lot.
The world "realization" implies what they concluding was clearly correct which in these cases it was at best questionable. The word "concluded" should have been used instead.
Does the study reflect the true gender figures?
The fact that online detrans spaces are heavily dominated by detrans females (some only for detrans females) is probably due to the fact that detrans males are far less common.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted, using online social media to recruit detransitioners. Access to the questionnaire was open from the 16th of November until the 22nd of December 2019. Any detransitioner of any age or nationality was invited to take part in the study. The survey was shared by Post Trans (
www.post-trans.com)—a platform for female detransitioners—via public posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Participants were also recruited through private Facebook groups and a Reddit forum for detransitioners (r/detrans). Some of the latter platforms were addressed exclusively to female detransitioners.
There are spaces for male repressors but these people generally do not really want to start HRT in the first place but if they finally cave and transition they generally regret not doing so sooner.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TGandSissyRecovery/
hardly any detransitioners there.