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Project Summary:

Funded by a SSHRC Connection grant, our team objectives are to share recent research, engage in dialogue, and to develop a community-engaged and data-driven support resource on detransition/retransition. This resource will offer information to support care providers, organizations and people with experiences of detransition. Our goal is to translate and mobilize data-driven knowledge to understand and to address this gap in gender care.

To achieve this goal, we held a public symposium and community consultation at York University in November 2022. We disseminated and discussed the results of two discreet studies conducted in 2021-2022—led by different Canadian research teams—the Re/DeTrans Canada study and the Detrans Discourses study. We gathered and analyzed feedback from detrans/retrans, trans, nonbinary, and other gender minority groups, along with other end knowledge users such as care providers and 2SLGBTQ organizations.

As demonstrated by both studies’ results, people need more supports when shifting or reversing a gender transition as they negotiate complex social/community relations, health and/or legal systems, misunderstanding and stigma surrounding detransition. Some detransitioners have complicated feelings such as regret about past medical decisions or medical/surgical complications, grief about their transitioned body, and new forms of gender dysphoria (e.g., “reverse dysphoria”). Individuals may require a mixture of psychological and community-based social supports (e.g., a therapeutic environment to explore and clarify identity), as well as primary healthcare (e.g., support in stopping or changing hormones), together with nuanced appreciation for the experiences of detransition.

Our symposium presentations are available here: https://www.youtube.com/@redetranscanada

Project Description:

Our full project team includes:

Drs. Kinnon R. MacKinnon, Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, June Lam, Lori Ross, Hannah Kia, Melanie Millette, and Olivier Turbide, together with PhD candidates Ariel Gould and Florence Ashley

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Principal Investigator

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