The making of a detransitioner

[LostOne4Ever]

Cross posted to LGBTQ group

The making of a detransitioner
Elisa Rae Shupe was a weapon in the hands of TERFs and Christian conservatives. Now, over 2,600 pages of leaked emails help tell her story

By Jude Ellison S. Doyle • March 15, 2023 2:13 pm EDT

On Wednesday, March 8, Mother Jones broke the news of a secret working group that had collaborated to craft anti-trans legislation targeting youth healthcare and spread it to multiple states. The existence of that group—which included numerous elected officials, members of Christian conservative policy groups such as the Family Policy Alliance and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), and representatives from anti-trans “feminist” group Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), among others—proved that the current onslaught of anti-trans legislation was the result of a coordinated campaign. Within hours of the Mother Jones story publishing, a 2,600-page PDF archive of the leaks was posted online.

That archive is substantial, and it is damning. But the public leaks are not the whole story. When the archive was posted, I had already been reading through the leaked emails for several days. The leaker, a trans woman and former “detransition” activist named Elisa Rae Shupe, had reached out to me to offer access, and I had come away with a whole other story.

The full archive—sent to me, and other journalists—contains every email Shupe sent or received, from both of her two email accounts, between 2017 and 2023, the years when she was most active as a member of the organized anti-trans movement. There are years of media, legislative and tactical strategy outlined in those emails; there are conversations in which some of the most well-known TERFs in the movement coordinate strategy and brainstorm talking points. It is a playbook for how anti-trans organizations operate and a compressed history of how the TERF movement joined forces with the Christian right to create the current moment.

Most important, it is a record of how Elisa Rae Shupe was crafted into a weapon; how her narrative was established, edited and eventually taken out of her control, even as her name appeared on testimonies, Supreme Court briefings and highly circulated op-eds. This is the making of a “detransitioner.” More like her are being made every day.

Way more here:
https://xtramagazine.com/power/detransition-terf-movement-elisa-shupe-247592

Anti-LGBTQ activists are evil incarnate.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Just so disturbing

The Freedumb Party doesn't trust people to make decisions about their own bodies for themselves.

These decisions are for the individuals transitioning and their families, no one else should be involved, especially the state.

And what's rarely discussed is that one reason for some urgency for young people regarding care is their desire not to go through puberty as the wrong sex. Puberty blockers can help people with the end results.

[LostOne4Ever]

3. The lives of Trans Children have no Value to them

That is why they love warping the stories of detransitioners.

“What if a kid regrets transitioning and end up with irreversible changes that they can’t undo?” They say. What they ignore is what if they really are trans and are forced to undergo a puberty they don’t want?

Regret is about 1%. So for every “confused” cis child they save they doom 99 trans children. It is a tragedy to them that a single cis child go through a puberty that is wrong for them, but perfectly fine for 99% of trans children to experience it.

And neither have to experience it. Puberty blocks exist, are safe, and can help both.

But that would allow trans kids to be happy and make them less“indentifiable.” How are they going to discriminate against trans people if they can’t tell? How can they drive trans people to suicide if they look exactly like the people they claim to be?

They want trans people dead.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. I wish the god-botherers would stop bothering people and stick to "less government". . . nt