Someone asked me whether I knew Lane Lloyd while I was involved with radfem/TERF subcultures. This person informed me that Lane was selling crafts to queer and trans people while denying past involvement with TERF communities, often using their identity and experience as a trans person to deflect accusations. Lane, under the handle Coyotesnout, promotes… Continue reading Statement about Lane Lloyd
Tag: detrans women's community
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 Survivors
Originally 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 Activism
I’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.
Notes from A Meeting of Transphobic Detrans Activists from 10/3/2016
The following are notes from a meeting between four female detrans activists, Devorah Zahav, Carey Callahan, Cari Stella and myself (then working under the name Crash), that took place on October 3rd 2016. I found these notes while going through old emails looking for something else and decided that they were worth sharing to give… Continue reading Notes from A Meeting of Transphobic Detrans Activists from 10/3/2016
Early Correspondence Between A Detrans Radical Feminist and the Founder of FourthWaveNow
Denise C, the founder of FourthWaveNow, corresponded with detransitioned radical feminists before she started her Tumblr and WordPress blogs. This correspondence took place between December 26th-27th 2014. Denise started her blogs in March of 2015. Below are emails between Denise and Devorah Zahav, the detrans woman who blogs as Redress Alert. Zahav is a very… Continue reading Early Correspondence Between A Detrans Radical Feminist and the Founder of FourthWaveNow
Telling the Whole Story: A Closer Look at the Detrans Women in When Children Say They’re Transgender
Orginally posted on Health Liberation Now! Many articles about detransitioning present an incomplete and misleading view of the detrans community by failing to address the beliefs and politics of its members. An example of this is Jesse Singal’s Atlantic article When Children Say They’re Transgender which features three detrans women, Max Robinson, Carey Callahan, and… Continue reading Telling the Whole Story: A Closer Look at the Detrans Women in When Children Say They’re Transgender
The Reality Behind the Story I Told: What My Life was Like When I was Interviewed for the Stranger
Back when I was still a detrans woman, I was interviewed a few times by journalists for articles on detransitioning. The article that drew the most attention and the strongest reactions from people was a piece written by Katie Herzog that appeared in The Stranger. Many trans people and their allies found the article offensive… Continue reading The Reality Behind the Story I Told: What My Life was Like When I was Interviewed for the Stranger