Professor Kinnon Ross MacKinnon
For decades transgender communities have challenged the pathologization of gender diversity while at the same time advocating for increased access to gender-affirming medical/surgical technologies. This mini-lecture highlights the experiences of 28 people who stopped/reversed a gender transition in Canada.
Detransition stories can be challenging to hear. On the surface, these narratives seem to risk hard fought wins that lowered the gates to gender care, and instances of detransition are often weaponized politically as an argument to raise those gates back up again. But the stigma surrounding discussions of detransition hurts detransitioners and trans people alike while reifying the power of Western, cisnormative medicine over gender non-conforming bodies.
— Professor Kinnon Ross MacKinnon