Breaking Up With Community

Sophia Burns
6 min readApr 28, 2021
Frances Willard, feminist and Prohibitionist, of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union — a forerunner of both today’s activist left and religious right

Membership in the trans community has roughly the same half-life as Thorium-228: within about two years, most people leave.

That’s not because they detransition. Although not unheard-of (and certainly extensively discussed by journalists), detransitioners form only a minute percentage of people who’ve ever identified as trans (and an even smaller share of those who pursued transition long enough to receive any…

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Sophia Burns

Paganism, Buddhism, Classics, philosophy, LGBTQ culture, and the art of living well. Former activist; I don’t trust culture war. http://patreon.com/sophiaburns