Detrans Voices and transgender people
Detrans Voices was an American “ex-transgender” website.
Key people
- Carol Freitas
- Rachel F (East Coast, transitioned 2012)
- Sydney Wright (college student transitioned 14-18)
- Sten Ridley / Kristen Reeves
Via Lee Leveille:
Carol Freitas is a self-described “transition abolitionist”[61] whose experience led her to view “transition [as] harmful to the body & the mind.”[62] This view plays out in a wide range of activist efforts, including becoming the Detransitioner Peer Group Coordinator of LGB Alliance US.[63][64] She was also one of the coorganizers of the #DetransAwarenessDay campaign, and when Health Liberation Now! called on them to denounce the far right coverage because of the harm it posed to trans and detrans people, her project DetransVoices.org asserted that they “believe its important that this day stays politically neutral[.]” Freitas later emerged under her own account to state that they “are not affiliated with any left or right wing extremist groups.”[65] Other notable activism efforts include promotion of anti-trans protests and the propaganda they film outside pediatric clinics, coordinating harassment of California Senator Scott Weiner to undermine SB 132,[66] and trolling LGBTQ resources by dispersing the detransition booklet by Post-Trans while encouraging others to do the same.[67][68]
References
Lee Leveille (2021). When Ex-trans Worlds Collide: Unpacking a New Era of Anti-trans Conversion Therapy. Health Liberation Now! https://healthliberationnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/When-Ex-Trans-Worlds-Collide-Unpacking-a-New-Era-of-Anti-Trans-Conversion-Therapy.pdf
Anti-trans coverage
Feminists in Struggle (July 10, 2021). Online event: The Other Side of Transgender: The Story of De-transitioners. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-other-side-of-transgender-the-story-of-de-transitioners-tickets-160330686399
-https://feministstruggle.org/2021/06/28/feminist-forum-the-other-side-of-transgender-the-story-of-de-transitioners/
Selected writing by Detrans Voices members
Freitas, Carol [as “Carol F.”] (July 14, 2019). From the ashes: Butch lesbian & her family rebuild life after transition. 4thWaveNow https://4thwavenow.com/2019/07/14/from-the-ashes-butch-lesbian-her-family-rebuild-life-after-transition/
Media
Feminists in Struggle with Sydney Wright [as Sydney], Rachel F., and Carol Freitas [as Carol F] (August 9, 2021). The Other Side of Transgender: The Story of De-transitioners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEoPwk2_bYQ
Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley, Sasha Ayad, and Carol Freitas (March 19, 2021). One Detrans Voice: a Conversation with Carol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFUz7wbKqI
Other information
Rachel
-https://medium.com/@habituallyfemme/about
-https://gettr.com/user/habituallyfemme
-https://www.tiktok.com/@habituallyfemme
-https://www.detransvoices.org/detrans-story-rachel/
-https://youtu.be/dJEiGEpzfLE
Sten
-https://www.linkedin.com/in/sten-ridley-2298168/
-https://m.facebook.com/artdyke
Resources
Detrans Voices (detransvoices.org) [archive]
X/Twitter (x.com)
- detrans_voices [removed]
- ftmdetransed
- SourPatches2077 [removed]
- HabituallyFemme [removed]
- Bird_lesbian
YouTube (youtube.com)
Tumblr (tumblr.com)
GoFundMe (gofundme.com)
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