ABOUT
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DAGNY
IG: @detransstories Dagny (23) currently lives in the mountainous west with her partner Alexandra. Her passions include art, Ancient Rome, Overwatch, and true crime. From age 15 - 19, Dagny identified as non-binary and as a trans man, and she was on HRT for 2 years before deciding to detransition.
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CHIARA
Twitter: @chiaracanaan Chiara (22) identified as a trans man from ages 16 - 19 before desisting. She is now focused on providing support for young people and spreading awareness about dysphoria as well as other reasons behind trans identification. She enjoys riding horses, cooking, writing, and making music.
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JESSE
Twitter: @dogcalledbambi Jesse (21) identified as a trans man from ages 16 - 19, and briefly as non-binary both at age 15 and 19. She was on HRT for 14 months before detransitioning. Now, Jesse is driven to incite positive change and support youth. Her passions include art & design, video games, biking, and music.
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HELENA
Twitter: @lacroicsz Helena (21) identified as non-binary and transgender throughout her teenage years, transitioning with HRT from the age of 18 - 19 before detransitioning. She's excited to encourage diversity in the discussions surrounding gender identity. She also loves history, reading, writing and spoiling her and cat, Corndog.
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All four of us experienced intense adolescent onset gender dysphoria, some of us showing beginning signs in early childhood and some of us fitting the Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) model. We all subsequently identified as trans men (FTM) and/or non-binary for several of our teenage and young adult years. We have all since detransitioned/desisted, and have been able to explore other individual factors that may have caused or exacerbated our dysphoria. We hope to help dysphoric youth find other ways to manage dysphoria, especially when commonly recommended treatments like hormone replacement therapy (HRT), gender therapy, living as your desired gender for multiple years, sexual reassignment surgery (SRS, or also sometimes called gender confirmation surgery) are ineffective for treating such dysphoria in the long-term.
We are an independent project, but we do recommend checking out 4thWaveNow for parents or concerned family members seeking support.
For information on ROGD, here is the original study by Lisa Littman. Dr. Littman is currently working on an anonymous, online detransitioner survey - for more information, and to see if you qualify, please contact us.
We are an independent project, but we do recommend checking out 4thWaveNow for parents or concerned family members seeking support.
For information on ROGD, here is the original study by Lisa Littman. Dr. Littman is currently working on an anonymous, online detransitioner survey - for more information, and to see if you qualify, please contact us.
