Meanings
- informalnot comparableRelating to, or having undergone, detransition.
Research on supporting detrans could enable a variety of interventions designed to help detrans people.
2020, Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp, “More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition”, in The Sociological Review, volume 68, number 4, page 8122 more examples
They [detransitioners] find each other online: on Twitter, where they use the lizard emoji to signal their detrans status, […]
2021, Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, unnumbered pageThe aim of this study is to analyze the specific needs of detransitioners from online detrans communities and discover to what extent they are being met.
2021, Elie Vandenbussche, “Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey”, in Journal of Homosexuality
Origin
Clipping of detransition, by surface analysis, de- + trans.
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Chinese Mandarin 脫跨 /脱跨
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French détrans
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detrans. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/detrans
“detrans.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/detrans. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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