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Detrans
True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult
About the Book
Trans activists are all about speaking up—unless you regret your “transition” and have made the journey back. If you question gender ideology, you’d better keep your mouth shut. But a compelling new book features multiple interviews with detransitioners and gives a voice to young people who were caught up in this damaging ideology. And their testimony—including from the lawsuits they have filed against the gender-affirming medical and therapeutic professionals who treated them—is unforgettable. "Gay Pride Month" every June has become an unquestioning celebration not just of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals, but also of Transitioning. Detransitioners' experience reveals that there's more complexity and pain involved in that category than most people will ever guess.
The number of teens and pre-teens persuaded they were born with the wrong body has exploded. Goaded by a toxic online “community” and assisted by teachers, doctors, and even their own parents, they are promptly set on the path of puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gruesome “gender-affirming” surgeries.
Media and activists insist that “transitioning” is the happy ending to these stories. But countless young people bear terrible emotional and physical scars. Adding to their anguish, the transgender community that once embraced them now wants to keep them quiet.
Now one fearless reporter, Mary Margaret Olohan, shares their stories. Based on in-depth personal interviews, Detrans exposes the unconscionable abuse these detransitioners have endured—manipulative therapy sessions, mental and emotional anguish, botched surgeries, and attempts to construct phantom body parts. Their testimonies reveal a truth so disturbing that transgender activists will do anything to hide it.
Detrans is indispensable evidence of the life-shattering power of gender ideology.
The stories in Detrans are heartbreaking. But you need to read them. Mary Margaret Olohan brilliantly narrates the lives that have been damaged by transgender ideology while highlighting the human costs of getting human nature wrong.”
Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D.
President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Author of “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment”
Mary Margaret Olohan uses lived experiences to highlight the severity and harm being done to the victims of the gender ideology movement. To turn a blind eye to the adverse effects of this extreme movement is to be complacent. ”
Riley Gaines
Twelve-time NCAA all-American swimmer, five-time SEC champion, and Ambassador for the Independent Women’s Forum
Mary Margaret Olohan fearlessly reveals the gruesome reality of what prescribing our children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries looks like. She does a major service to society by sharing the experiences of detransitioners to spread awareness of the tragedies they have endured at the hands of manipulative activists and bad doctors. ”
Mollie Hemingway
Editor-in-Chief, The Federalist
About the Author
Mary Margaret Olohan, a Senior Reporter covering culture and politics for The Daily Signal, previously wrote for The Daily Wire and The Daily Caller News Foundation. A graduate of The Catholic University of America, she is the proud eldest daughter of an Irish Catholic family of eleven children.
