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
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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
Tell Amazon to Stop Selling PEC’s Anti-Trans Conversion Therapy Book
On April 7, an anti-trans organization called Partners for Ethical Care released a book called Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult by Maria Keffler, one of the organization’s co-founders. This book is currently being sold by Amazon, among other online retailers. The book accuses the trans community of being… Continue reading Tell Amazon to Stop Selling PEC’s Anti-Trans Conversion Therapy Book
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
My Views on Transphobic Detrans People
I want to be upfront with how I view detransitioned people who believe in transphobic ideologies. When I was detrans, I hid my real views on trans people because I didn’t want to suffer the consequences of being openly transphobic. I rationalized what I was doing at the time but now I recognize that I… Continue reading My Views on Transphobic Detrans People
Detransition Awareness Day: Inconvenient Truths and Community Building
Originally posted on 3/12/21 on Health Liberation Now! Apparently today, March 12th is Detransition Awareness Day. Today is supposed to be a day for informing people about detransitioning in the name of creating more and better resources. Well then, here are some things I want people to be aware of concerning resources for people who… Continue reading Detransition Awareness Day: Inconvenient Truths and Community Building
Ideologically-Motivated Detransition as a Conversion Practice- A Personal Account
Oringially posted at Health Liberation Now! on 2/18/21 I am a genderqueer transmasculine butch who went through something akin to conversion therapy combined with ideological radicalization coming from a transphobic radical feminist perspective. According to that ideology, trans identities are false and the product of living in a patriarchal society, so I tried to “de-trans”… Continue reading Ideologically-Motivated Detransition as a Conversion Practice- A Personal Account
Confessions of a Former “Crypto-TERF”
Originally published on Medium on 1/17/21 I’m disturbed by many of my past actions as a detrans radical feminist. I said and did things that I now find very harmful and unethical. I was deceptive and tried to manipulate people, tried to change how transmasculine people thought of themselves and what choices they made. At… Continue reading Confessions of a Former “Crypto-TERF”
Transphobia in the Detrans Women’s Community
Originally published on Medium on 1/21/21 [CW: Transphobia, transmisogyny, ableism, references to sexual and domestic violence, homophobia] During my time as a detrans woman, I said and did many things that I now see as harmful and transphobic. At the time, I thought I was acting in accordance with feminism and working in the best… Continue reading Transphobia in the Detrans Women’s Community