detransitioner
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who detransitions.
Example Sentences
- "Detransitioners will need to be aware that 'reverse' genital surgery is not likely to be as successful as their original surgery because there will be less tissue to work with."
- "In 2021 she spoke out in favor of approaching gender dysphoria in a more considered way, urging others in the field to pay attention to detransitioners, people who no longer consider themselves transgender after undergoing medical or surgical interventions. […] “I transitioned because I didn’t want to be gay,” Kasey Emerick, a 23-year-old woman and detransitioner from Pennsylvania, told me. […] Many detransitioners say they face ostracism and silencing because of the toxic politics around transgender issues."
- "Id., at B2; accord, e.g., Eknes-Tucker v. Governor of Ala., 114 F. 4th 1241, 1267 (CA11 2024) (opinion of Lagoa, J.) (“Alabama presented evidence from many detransitioners who uniformly testified that they were not aware of the long-term impacts of the treatments they underwent”); Brief for Respondents 12–13 (explaining that, before enacting SB1, the Tennessee Legislature heard testimony “from a detransitioner who explained that she was not ‘capable of making informed lifelong decisions’ as a teenager” but nevertheless received transition treatments)."
Etymology
From detransition + -er (“agent noun”).