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The Genderwoo Activists Are Changing Their Story On Detransition Now

As if they are expecting a wave of detransitioners, or something

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Matt Osborne
Aug 11, 2025
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Laura Becker

Dr. Kinnon R. MacKinnon, a transgender scholar studying transgender “care” at York University in Toronto, has admitted in a New York Times op-ed that detransition rates are much higher than the oft-quoted figure of one percent.

MacKinnon professes to be personally focused on the reasons why people detransition. In what the good doctor says is the largest-ever such study, the real problem is revealed to be “involuntary detransition,” when someone’s ‘gender journey’ is “interrupted” by social disapproval.

“We found that many people detransition not out of regret, but because they feel forced by societal factors like negative attitudes toward transgender people, attitudes that are being amplified by the Trump administration,” MacKinnon asserts.

MacKinnon and the New York Times might as well just admit that the trendyness of ‘trans’ is gone, that people are sad at their lost investment of life and health to a cult of patent medical fraud.

But they cannot admit this, for they ar…

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