detransition

From de- +‎ transition.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/, /ˌdiː.tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/, /-sɪ-/, /-ʒən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdi.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/, /-sɪ-/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: de‧tran‧si‧tion

detransition (third-person singular simple present detransitions, present participle detransitioning, simple past and past participle detransitioned)

1. (intransitive, LGBTQ) To revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.
   • 2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married, page 303:

     People detransition because they may find it difficult to get jobs, or because of social ostracism, not passing in their target gender, family responsibilities, and so on.

   • 2014, Michelle Spicer, The Transgender Handbook:

     I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!

   • 2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 February 2024:

     “I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. “But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.” […] As one detransitioned man, now in a gay relationship, put it, “I was a gay man pumped up to look like a woman and dated a lesbian who was pumped up to look like a man.

   • 2025 June 18, “UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States‎^[2], page 47:

     Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.”

• detrans
• detransitioner

detransition (plural detransitions)

1. The act of one who detransitions.
   • 2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 February 2024:

     But in 2020, after coming across detransition videos online, she began to doubt the gender-affirming model.

• → Russian: детранзи́шн (detranzíšn)

• denitrations, transitioned