Trans activists intimidate and threaten detransitioners

‘Detransitioners’ in the US say they face frequent harassment and death threats from trans activists for “invalidating their narrative”.

People who have ‘transitioned’ from one sex to the other only to realise their mistake and return to their birth sex, are receiving increased abuse from the transgender community.

In the UK, the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill proposes to make it much easier to change legal sex by removing the need for medical evidence and reducing the two-year waiting period to six months. Legal ‘sex changes’ will also be extended to 16 and 17-year-olds.

‘Irreversible decisions’

Cat Cattinson was among a group of detransitioners who recently addressed Florida’s medical board before it voted to protect under 18-year-olds from ‘sex-change’ surgeries, puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones.

Cattinson said: “We’re at a really critical time right now, where we have the opportunity to safeguard kids from making irreversible decisions they’ll regret.”

Cat has seen the “level of hate really escalate to the point that any time a new de-transitioner shares their story online, they get dogpiled by thousands of trans activists, bullied, ridiculed, and of course death threats”.

She added that for “every de-transitioner with a public platform, the new trend has been to call us liars and grifters and just try to invalidate everything we say”.

‘More psychiatric issues’

Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old detransitioner, spoke of the impact of being given puberty blockers and testosterone at 13, followed by a double mastectomy at 15.

She asked: “Why is a mental health epidemic not being addressed with mental health treatment to get at the root causes for why female adolescents like me want to reject their bodies”.

Cole said she “actually developed more psychiatric issues the further I went into transition”.

She added: “I have no breasts. I want to be a mother someday and yet I can never naturally feed my future children”.

Scotland

Last month, the Equality and Human Rights Commission raised concerns over the impact of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill on young people.

The EHRC stated: “We recognise that 16 is the age of legal capacity in Scotland, but also that higher age limits apply for several matters that are of less significance than changing legal sex, such as purchasing alcohol and tobacco, getting a tattoo or driving a car.”

The equalities watchdog highlighted a statement made in the independent interim review of NHS gender services in England, conducted by Dr Hilary Cass, which asserted that social transition in young children is not a “neutral act”, and that it should only be considered where “any associated needs and risks have been addressed”.

It warned that changing legal sex is “a significant form of social transition”, and recommended that Holyrood consider amendments “that raise the age threshold to 18″.