“Detransitioners” around the world told their stories yesterday on the sixth annual Detransition Awareness Day, an event spotlighting the false promise of transgender ideology that drugs, hormones and surgeries can “transition” a person into becoming the opposite sex.

Hundreds of men and women who endured damaging, irreversible medical experiments shared how they came to reject a false opposite-sex identity and embrace their natal sex.

“Life Beyond Transition”

The annual Detransition Awareness Day, first held March 12, 2021, was created by a coalition of groups “to raise awareness and break down the stigma around detransition.” Keira Bell was one of those who helped launch that event. She was 16 when she was prescribed puberty blockers by England’s National Health Service and then received male hormones and a double mastectomy.

Since then, she has gone back to embracing her natural femininity and has become an outspoken critic of medical interventions for those suffering distress over their maleness or femaleness.

This year, Genspect, an international organization that “advocates for ethical, non-medicalized responses to gender distress,” sponsored a Detransition Awareness Day event in Washington, D.C., “Life Beyond Transition.”

An estimated 70 detransitioners gathered for the event, in addition to clinicians, researchers, lawyers, educators and policymakers.
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It’s not easy to leave transgenderism – especially after undergoing a regimen of drugs, hormones and surgeries and living as the opposite sex. Many who have detransitioned do so because they have found faith and truth in Christ.

It’s important to tell their stories in order to counter false transgender ideology, protect children from harmful medical procedures and demonstrate how trusting Jesus begins a journey of healing and transformation.