Breaking Up With Community
6 min readApr 28, 2021
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…