The Distance

The Distance

A Brief History Of Detransition

For Detrans Awareness Day 2026

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Matt Osborne
Mar 11, 2026
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Google Ngram for “detransitioner”

As shown by these two graphs, the rising number of published references to “detransitioner” has closely tracked the rise in published references to “puberty blockers”. The graph looks very different when both terms are compared together because detransitioners get far less attention than ‘trans kids’. We have to see them independently to discern the pattern.

This is mathematical evidence that transgender medicine creates detransitioners. The sudden arrival of transgender medicine and lifestyles for kids after 2011, when Jazz Jennings received his implant, produced the current population of desisting, detransitioning, or ex-trans people. They are not a right-wing plot against the innocent transes. They are the discarded byproduct of transgender ideology.

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