To revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.
People detransition because they may find it difficult to get jobs, or because of social ostracism, not passing in their target gender, family responsibilities, and so on.2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married, page 303:
I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!2014, Michelle Spicer, The Transgender Handbook:
2 more examples
“I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me. “But I was told there is one cure and one thing to do if this is your problem, and this will help you.” […] As one detransitioned man, now in a gay relationship, put it, “I was a gay man pumped up to look like a woman and dated a lesbian who was pumped up to look like a man.2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.”2025 June 18, “UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2026, page 47:
But in 2020, after coming across detransition videos online, she began to doubt the gender-affirming model.2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024: