Detrans Quotes

“Leaders in the fight against sex trafficking have warned me that violence, obscenity, and child-related sexual fantasies in pornography prompt porn consumers to try to buy sex with sex-trafficking victims—and that these consumers may seek sexual experiences that are themselves dangerous and violent.32 There are also weighty concerns that the women who are being abused in these pornographic scenes may themselves be victims of sex trafficking or engaging in the scenes against their will.”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“Buttons spoke with forty-eight detransitioners and found that forty-two of them (thirty-two females and ten males) had either confirmed or suspected autism, meaning that they identified with autistic traits. The last six were confident that they were not autistic, she says, but believed that their “perceived gender dysphoria was due to a variety of other reasons, including other psychiatric disorders.” And only five of these forty-two detransitioners who had confirmed or suspected autism had been diagnosed with ASD before or during their transition, according to Buttons. “All 5 told me that if they had fully understood what being autistic entailed and how it could manifest in their lives, they probably would not have believed they had gender dysphoria. They also said that ‘gender identity’ and transgender issues became their ‘special interest’ for a period of time,” she reports.17 (As we will see, Chloe now sees her fixation with transitioning as a “hyperfixation” typical of ASD.)”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“And even Reuters admits something that many top media outlets and networks have urgently denied: that children are taking drastic medical steps to change their bodies. “A small but increasing number of U.S. children diagnosed with gender dysphoria are choosing medical interventions to express their identity and help alleviate their distress.”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“He does not mention the growing number of people speaking out about the fact that they regret undergoing their irreversible surgeries (particularly as young girls).9 He does not mention the alarming social contagion effect documented by Abigail Shrier in her book Irreversible Damage. He does not mention that the medical establishment does not fully understand the effects that puberty blockers have on a child—or the long-term effects that testosterone and estrogen have upon a young person’s body (or an adult’s body, for that matter).”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“This “gender-affirming care” language has been widely embraced by non-conservative media outlets, including outlets with massive reach, such as CNN,5 the Washington Post,6 and the Associated Press.7 The use of the phrase has become so standard in coverage of legislation banning irreversible sex-change surgeries and hormones for minors that it is almost impossible for the average reader to know what is being banned, particularly if they are not already familiar with “gender-affirming care.” Most outlets and many activists and lawmakers also use the phrase “anti-transgender bills” or “anti-transgender laws.”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“Further, GLAAD offers the media a glossary of terms recommended for reporting on the issue, including the phrase “gender-affirming care.”4 If it is not immediately clear to you what that phrase means, you aren’t alone. It is purposefully nebulous, artfully positive in tone, successfully vague, an activist umbrella term used to obscure the grisly details of transition procedures such as hormones, puberty blockers, and irreversible surgeries, even for children.”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“So that person detransitions: They try to reverse the process. They stop taking hormones, they reverse the surgeries (to the extent that that is possible), and they attempt to deal with the mental and physical consequences of such brutal interventions in the physiology and anatomy of the human body. Not everyone makes it to that point. But this book shares stories of those who have, and who are brave enough to speak out about their experiences.”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult

“Iwas making myself dinner in my dingy little Arlington apartment when I got a notification that a Twitter Spaces event was starting. A young woman I had recently begun following had advertised it as an event where people who had attempted medical and hormonal sex changes were going to share their stories. It was some time around the fall of 2020, and outside of mostly conservative and academic circles, stories like theirs hadn’t really been explored.”
― Mary Margaret Olohan, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult