How Common Is Detransitioning?

Never trust someone who says they know precisely how commonly people detransition. Research on the subject, especially pertaining to minors, remains maddeningly hazy.

Source: Grok

If anything is clear about the profoundly messy and politicized subject of detransitioning, one should never trust someone if they claim to have clarity on precisely how common this phenomenon is.

The correct answer is: “We’re not sure.”

More specifically, the available research on the prevalence of detransitioning provides a general sense that at most, a fraction of people who medically transition genders ultimately cease treatment with cross-sex hormones. How small that fraction is, and what proportion of those who discontinue hormone treatment actually revert to presenting and identifying as their birth sex, and what proportion regret having transitioned in the first place, remains hazy.

The detransitioning rate is especially unclear among those who underwent gender-transition treatment as minors, including with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sometimes surgeries (a double mastectomy is by far the most common such operation in minors with gender dysphoria). With…