Writing about detransition as a conversion practice, it’s relation to organized transphobia and the process of disengaging/retransitioning.
Ky Schevers played a significant role creating and promoting the radical feminist detrans women’s community. Under the name CrashChaosCats, she wrote, made videos, presented workshops and gave media interviews in order to talk about her experiences detransitioning and promote anti-trans feminist ideology. Eventually she became disillusioned with the radical feminist movement and recognized her detransition as a harmful anti-trans conversion practice. She writes now to raise awareness of the harms of ideologically motivated detransition and the role transphobic detrans communities play in organzied transphobia.
Latest Posts
- Thirty-Six[CW: sexual assault, verbal abuse, abusive relationship, ideological detransition/conversion practices] Almost a year ago, I turned thirty-six and realized that my relationship with Devorah had began with her sexually assaulting me. This happened when I had just turned thirty and technically she was thirty-five but she would turn thirty-six a few months later and I… Continue reading Thirty-Six
- Statement about Devorah Zahav[CW: Partner Abuse, Psychological, Verbal and Sexual Abuse] I left my old group for many reasons but a big one was that I had been in an abusive relationship with another detransitioned radical feminist, Devorah Zahav, and I didn’t trust that most people in my old group would believe me if I spoke out about… Continue reading Statement about Devorah Zahav
- Seeing Myself in the Stories of Other Conversion Therapy SurvivorsOriginally published on Trans Safety Network under the title Ky Schever’s experience with ideologically driven detransition Back when I was still in the detransitioned radical feminist community, I watched the Miseducation of Cameron Post with another detransitioned woman. That movie is about a teenage lesbian in the US who’s sent to a Christian ex-gay camp… Continue reading Seeing Myself in the Stories of Other Conversion Therapy Survivors
- Feeling Regret About My Detransition and Past ActivismI’ve been feeling a lot of regret about my past actions. I feel as though I lost about six years of my life. I think back over that time and think about all that I wish hadn’t happened, how I wish I hadn’t done this or that, or that I’d gone about things differently. There’s… Continue reading Feeling Regret About My Detransition and Past Activism
- Risks/harms of ideological detransition/“alternative treatments for gender dysphoria”Several months ago, I decided to write out the negative effects of my detransition and came up with the following list. I divided the list up between what I experienced while detransitioning and when I came out as trans again, after deciding that detransition hadn’t worked for me.