March 12 marked the fifth annual “Detransition Awareness Day,” created by a coalition of groups and individuals “to raise awareness and break down the stigma around detransition.”
No person can become the opposite sex, but transgender activists claim many “awareness” and “remembrance” days throughout the year – including the whole month of November – trying to convince us otherwise.
But this one day a year gives a truthful counternarrative, and it celebrates those who were once caught up in the false gender ideology but have now found freedom.
“Transitioning” is a term used by gender ideologues to describe the attempt to look like the opposite sex, through clothing, makeup and hairstyles, name changes, drugs, hormones and surgeries.
“Detransitioners” are those who were caught up in transgenderism, but now accept and embrace their true sex, albeit sometimes with lifelong damage and serious health issues from dangerous and experimental medical interventions.
This year’s Detransition Awareness Day featured a meeting in Washington, D.C., with medical experts discussing the medical harms from “gender-affirming care”; detransitioners telling their stories about how such medical interventions did not help them; and a legal panel discussing the role of litigation and laws to protect others from being harmed.
A final panel talked about the issue of transgenderism, “social contagion, cell phone use, and online grooming,” along with “the best approach to protecting minors from access to harmful content.”
The conference was sponsored by a number of groups, including Genspect, The Heritage Foundation, Do No Harm, Moms for Liberty and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Among the participants were Heritage Foundation’s Jay Richards; surgeon and whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim; California attorney and parents advocate Erin Friday; and Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Tiffany Justice.
Detransitioners Chloe Cole, Laura Becker, Soren Aldaco, Abel Garcia and Forrest Smith told their stories about leaving transgenderism.
As part of the panel of detransitioners, Smith, born in 1995, described how he got ensnared in the transgender movement. He explained that he was part of the “first generation of kids who grew up with unfiltered access to the internet” and was exposed to erotic cartoons as a child, eventually escalating to watching “fetish pornography.”
He said, “So pornography, in some ways, was my entrance into the world of transitioning.”
As a child and a teen boy, Smith really couldn’t comprehend what he was seeing, but those experiences shaped his personality – even though he hated what he was watching. He now believes that some of those posting pornography and images of people transitioning on the internet are pedophiles, grooming young children.
Feeling shame and pain, and addicted to drugs, Smith dropped out of college and began living on the streets in Portland. There, he discovered The Homeless Youth Continuum, “a huge operation,” Smith said, “a whole network of social services that are geared toward serving homeless youth.” This included an outreach to “sexual minority youth,” ages 12 to 24, grouping together children and adults, and moving them toward homosexuality and transgenderism.
Homeless and addicted to drugs, he was “rushed through a bilateral orchiectomy during COVID quarantines,” even though hospitals were shutting down elective surgeries. Oregon Health & Science University provided assistance with paperwork and insurance for these disfiguring and damaging medical interventions.
After he aged out of Portland’s youth services, he returned home to his family, where he found love, grace and acceptance, beginning his journey to embrace and accept his masculinity.
Detransitioner Chloe Cole participated in the panel on social contagion, saying, “If it weren’t for me using social media as an adolescent, I don’t think that I ever would have transitioned, let alone believed that I was a boy.”
Cole said her initial interests on social media were focused on her hobbies, things like video games, artwork and movies. But then she “started seeing more and more transgender-focused content,” and the conversations shifted from those initial interests to people talking about their struggles with body image and identity issues.
This social media engagement began to influence her thinking about herself, and then she began to believe she must be transgender, too.
Cole posted on X about her mixed emotions about Detransition Awareness Day, saying, “March 12 is sad yet meaningful for people like me,” adding, “For the first time, Congress is introducing a resolution to mark this day.”
Cole linked to an op-ed in the New York Post where she called on Congress to stop the medical system’s abuse of children with surgeries, opposite-sex hormones and powerful puberty-blocking drugs.
Cole wrote, “What happened to me should never happen to another kid — ever. But every day, it does happen. Children’s hospitals are ruining children’s lives in the name of radical transgender ideology. They need to be stopped. Those kids need to be protected from this insanity.”
Watch the conference: Genspect: Detrans Awareness Day – LIVE from Capitol Hill
Related Articles and Resources:
Addressing Gender Identity with Honesty and Compassion
Chloe Cole: Gender Reassignment Surgery Regret
‘Detransition Awareness Day’ Highlights Those Embracing Their True Identity
‘Detransition Awareness Day’ – Testimonies From Those Who Left Transgenderism
Focus on the Family: Transgender Resources
Genspect: Detrans Awareness Day – LIVE from Capitol Hill
How Science and Faith Can Defeat Gender Ideology – Part One and Part Two [MZ1]
Yes, Trans Activists Admit They Are Grooming Your Kids
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