Cases of transgender people deciding to re-identify with the gender assigned at birth are very rare, but regularly cited as so-called "detransitioning" to support anti-trans arguments around treatment for youth suffering from gender dysphoria.
Understanding the reasons some transgender people quit treatment is key to improving it, especially for the rising number of minors seeking to medically transition, experts say. But for many researchers, detransitioning and regret have long been untouchable subjects.
For years, Dr Kinnon MacKinnon, like many people in the transgender community, considered the word "regret" to be taboo. MacKinnon, a 37-year-old transgender man and assistant professor of social work at York University here, thought it was.
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