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Detransitioning without support systems in place

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:May 28, 2026
  • Post category:Personal Stories
  • Post comments:4 Comments

The following guest post is by detransitioner Michael Kerr, who writes about the individual process of detransitioning without support, compared with the managed process of transition. You can follow Michael…

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Teenage gender identity crisis – a parent’s story

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:March 13, 2023
  • Post category:Health Professionals and Organisations/Personal Stories
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ID:75453421 This is a guest post by the mother of an autistic adolescent girl who went through a teenage gender identity crisis, brought on by wider mental health issues. Many…

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Parenting a trans-identified child

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:October 12, 2021
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  • Post comments:12 Comments

We are very grateful to the mother who contacted us recently and agreed to write this account of parenting her trans-identified teenage daughter over a long period of time. She…

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Lesbian testimony from ‘an old-fashioned butch dyke’

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:April 26, 2021
  • Post category:Personal Stories
  • Post comments:8 Comments

Ajay Böhr is a retired university IT director now living in the Outer Hebrides with her dog Minnie. She is a lesbian who describes herself as 'an old-fashioned butch dyke'…

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Transition and Detransition: A conversation between sisters

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:February 26, 2021
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Sisters Andrea (l) and Sinead (r) Sinead Watson is a detransitioned woman who began medical transition in 2015 at age 24 at the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow. She began to…

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“You will be told that gender is innate and that you’re not a proper girl”

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:July 13, 2020
  • Post category:Personal Stories/Schools and Youth Organisations
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This testimony was written for us by a mother and a teacher whose daughter once thought she was a boy over a period of three years. She is a member…

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Living with a transgender foster child

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:November 13, 2019
  • Post category:Health Professionals and Organisations/Personal Stories
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This is a guest post from the mother of a transgender foster child, detailing her experience with doctors, therapists and social services as she tries to protect the child in…

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Autistic Girls : Gender’s silent frontier

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  • Post published:September 29, 2019
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Jane Galloway at age 16 A guest post by Jane Galloway Jane Galloway is an Autistic woman with ADHD. Like so many autistic females, she was only diagnosed in her…

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Severe pain at orgasm: effect of testosterone on the female body

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:February 18, 2019
  • Post category:Personal Stories
  • Post comments:22 Comments

Agonising pain during orgasm is a little-known effect of testosterone on the female body which seems to be a common experience for FtM transitioners. Are young women made aware before…

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A Letter To Young Trans People

  • Post author:Transgender Trend
  • Post published:January 16, 2019
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Leanne Mills aged eighteen We were very moved, as we know many others were, by the testimony of Leanne Mills which was published in the Daily Mail on December 13th…

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