Trans People Are Real and Detransitioning Isn't That Common – SOME MORE NEWS

Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by Will Gordh
Written by Ella Yurman and David Christopher Bell
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Edited by Gregg Meller
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:53 - Is Being Trans Really on the Rise?
11:06 - “Desisting” is low
19:24 - The Cass Review
27:35 - The Countless Op-Eds
39:32 - The Ghouls Behind The Detransitioners
50:25 - Why Are Transphobes?

[snartdingus]

I detransitioned (ftmtf) and I am so sick of my experiences being used without my permission to invalidate transgender people. I have no regrets, I needed to explore my gender and I am happier for it, even though I detransitioned. After sharing my experiences, people have asked me to talk their transgender family members and friends out of transitioning. It makes me so uncomfortable. No one is actually listening to the people who detranstitioned.

[seans]

I'm a trans man. And I sought out a hysterectomy after 4 years on testosterone and still receiving [painful] periods. I was 22 when I started seeking a hysterectomy. I had to go to 14 gynecologist and OGBYNs just to finally find a doctor willing to do the surgery. This wonderful doctor who did my surgery was also concerned that nearly a decade into medically transitioning, I was still having periods. Especially painful ones that lasted well over a week. She ordered an ultrasound the same day as my first visit. They found alarming tissue growth on one of my ovaries. Because I already wanted a hysterectomy and I was open to an oophorectomy she got me in for surgery the following week. Post-op analysis of the growth showed that it was cancer. Cancer that metastasized. I've now been through chemo, had my lymph nodes and more breast tissue removed, and my thyroid has gone to shit all because 13 medical professional didn't run really basic tests. I have children, and I don't know if I will see them become adults because of how trans people are dismissed and the lack of autonomy people with uteruses have over their bodies.

[LanceElias-me]

I am a transman, I ended up in a mental health crisis after transition as a result of sexual assault. I was not believed and told it was me just being ungrateful for the help I was receiving. When I popped positive with an STD I was put on the street. I was taken in and given a new life thanks to my partner. It took months of living outside. I am a phD in computational physics, so am now finally able to work and rebuild thanks to her.

[munstify]

I transitioned over 20 years ago, 90% of people in my life don't even know. Part of me wants to come out and say "Hey, you actually do know a trans person!" But a much larger part of me just wants to be left alone.

[PatrickWDunne]

I can't even get my Adderall fulfilled, yet people believe that schools are just giving away free GAC?

[prosperpascoe]

I’m a trans man, my best friend detransitioned back into a cis woman before I even met her. she goes to bat for me if anyone so much as glances in my direction. real detransitioners are the greatest and most precious allies, because they know what we go through. I love you so much, detrans babes! we’re still siblings in this mess of a world.

[Illiteratechimp]

I know two trans service members.
One is my friend, former Navy, she is very capable and competent and I would serve with her any day.

The other was my employee when I was a commander. She went from being a middling NCO, then was allowed to transition once Biden came in, and within a few months she became a top NCO in the company. Suddenly she was bright, motivated, engaged and far more active than she had been.

The trans service ban is stupid.

[CosmicStardrop]

sometimes i forget that i am trans if nobody is transphobic to me for awhile. so i know for a fact that my life would be SO MUCH better if people were more socially accepting of trans people

[poochy]

Harry Potter tattoos have a higher regret rate than transitioning

[ChristyAbbey]

How many trans people does it take to change a lightbulb?

One, with two psychiatric professionals, two doctors, and a mass of people yelling that the lightbulb can never change.

It wasn't the funniest joke I've ever written, but it's definitely the most bitter.

[sheshells_]

Hey! Someone ELSE finally gets to defend my existence. Thanks showdy team :D

[noriringtail]

I always tell parents that if you don't like a "phase" your kid is in, embrace it fully. Without the thrill of rebellion, they'll either A) Get over it sooner, in which case you got ahead on this, or B) Commit to it because it's not a phase, and you have their eternal gratitude for being supportive. It's win/win.

[lcg]

I used to get annoyed by the whole gender as a spectrum thing because I never felt like I fit into traditionally masculine roles, I got angry that people would take what I considered personality traits and turn them into a billion different genders. Realistically, I was also a bit insecure and felt like people were trying to tell me I was trans or some random gender somewhere between.

Eventually I realised that what other people feel about themselves shouldn't really concern me if it makes them happier with themselves, I can be me and they can be them in the way they feel works best for them and that's cool.

These days I've become way more secure in my own body and most of my friends, including my best friend, are LGBTQ+. Turns out accepting others helps you to accept yourself, not to mention pretty good for making great friends.

[PatrickWDunne]

Knee replacement surgery has a higher regret rate than transitioning.

Edit: Looks like Cody beat me to my own point again 28:28

[VanAlexi]

Republicans: “We need to protect kids”

Also Republicans (specifically Rich McCormick): Kids should work for their lunches

[lonk]

that study counting detransitioners as "someone who's been to a gender clinic but didn't go back" would define me as a detransitioner. i'm nonbinary, and i went to a gener clinic when i was questioning my gender to look at my options. i decided that my dysphoria wasn't bad enough to jump through the hoops to do any sort of medical transitioning, so i didn't go back. i am still nonbinary. i am no less nonbinary than i was. i may present similarly to a woman, but i'm still nonbinary. quite funny

[rayceeya]

Matt Walsh: "it must be hundreds of thousands" He's off by 2000%. That's not just wrong, that's unbelievably wrong.

[Mimi-cqbg]

Billy Tipton. He was an almost famous piano player back in the 50s. Every time he’d get close to fame he would self sabotage and take a step back.

Billy was married three times and fathered no children. He lived in a time when being trans would land you in a prison cell.

When Billy died the LA coroner performed an autopsy, and the coroner was more than a little surprised to find out that Billy had a vagina. In spite of the threat of a lifetime in a prison cell, Billy lived the life he wanted to live. He lived the way that felt authentic to him.

This isn’t new.

[jennastephens]

I thought I was a cis woman, but I had all sorts of health issues with my reproductive system. In adulthood, I learned that my AFAB designation was wrong, and I'm biologically intersex. You see, when I was concieved, the sperm that hit my Mom's egg was a mutant. When sperm get made in the balls, all the chromosomes are supposed to go half on one side, half on the other, leaving the sperm with a half copy of my Dad's DNA. The X goes to one side, the Y to the other. But in my case, a little chunk of Y chromosome DNA stuck to the X that became me. This is called SRY-Negative XX Male Syndrome. Only about 1, 400 people in the entire US have it (About 0.0005%, or about the same number of people who live in Queen City, TX)., So the reason I was having so many reproductive health issues was because I have a vagina, a uterus, an ovary, and an internal testicle. I'm both male and female, and I can even prove it on the spot if given a sterile syringe or an ultrasound machine (Fun fact: Yes, I can be a bio mom or bio dad to a kid, with surgical/IVF intervention. However if I choose Dad, while the child can be of two sexes, they'll either be female or XX male like me, inheriting my mutated X). So what do conservatives want me to do if I legally don't exist now? Forced surgery to remove my one ball? CRISPR intervention to delete the Y DNA? Just killing me in the gas chambers, and screening newborns for this "disease", killing us whenever we crop up through random mutation? This will not end well for anyone

[lloydweatherford]

"There has never been a time in history where a problem was caused by a minority group just existing" is a succinct and powerful line, espicially right now.