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It also flattens all detrans into „realized they weren’t trans,“ which is simply not the case. The vast majority who end up detransitioning (itself a small minority of the trans community) do so at least in some part because of an external pressure - because of social rejection from friends and family, or because of violence and harassment on the street, or because of the rampant housing and hiring discrimination directed against trans people, or because of the enormous costs and bureaucratic burdens associated with medical and legal transitioning, and many trans people who detransition will resume transitioning later in life.
This bears repeating and highlighting, and phrasing in the clearest way possible: the vast majority of detransitioners are still trans people - they're just trans people who have decided transition is not something they can afford at their current point in time.
This is where the shorthand "detrans" and "trans" can do a lot of manipulative obfuscating legworks by making it sounds like the "trans" in both words is the same thing, and that "detrans people" have rejected therefore being trans ; it's not. Trans in detrans refer to the process and act of transition ; trans in "trans person" refers to the state of not being the gender you're assigned at birth. Transition is only *one* way of living as a transgender person ; not a condition or necessity of it. One can be trans and never transition, delay transitioning, partially transition, begin transitioning, detransition, and retransition (or not) later, or fully transition - or a myriad other way.
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