retransition
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + transition.
Noun
[edit]retransition (plural retransitions)
- Another transition.
- 2012, David Beach, Ryan McClelland, Analysis of 18th- and 19th-Century Musical Works in the Classical Tradition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 196:
- The content of the development is harder to define; it may include new material, but typically involves development of motives and themes from the exposition leading to a retransition.
Verb
[edit]retransition (third-person singular simple present retransitions, present participle retransitioning, simple past and past participle retransitioned)
- To transition again.
- (LGBTQ) To undergo another transition, for example to transition back to one's earlier (trans) gender after having temporarily detransitioned to one's birth-assigned gender, or to transition to a binary trans gender after an earlier transition to non-binary.
- 2018, CN Lester, Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us, unnumbered page:
- With apologies to my friends who have detransitioned or retransitioned if I get this wrong, this is what I've learned.
- 2019, Jennie Kermode, Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary People with Disabilities or Illnesses: A Good Practice Guide for Health and Care Provision[1], page 72:
- One reason for encouraging detransitioners to go through counselling and avoid rushing into further surgery is that many go on to retransition again in the future.
- 2019, Rosie Swayne, “Unqualified, middle-age lesbian swerves abruptly out of her lane to talk about trans issues”, in Lesbian Feminism: Essays Opposing Global Heteropatriarchies, unnumbered page:
- She also observes that within the number of those who detransition, a significant proportion do so due to how intense their experiences of rejection and transphobia are – and so then actually retransition further on in life.
- 2022, Kristina R. Olson, Lily Durwood; Rachel Horton, Natalie M. Gallagher, Aaron Devor, "Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition", in the Pediatrics:
- Included in this group were 4 individuals (1.3% of the total sample) who retransitioned twice (to nonbinary then back to binary transgender). Some youth (3.5%) were currently living as nonbinary, including one who had retransitioned first to cisgender then to nonbinary. Finally, 2.5% were using pronouns associated with their sex at birth and could be categorized as cisgender at the time of data collection, including one who first retransitioned to live as nonbinary.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:retransition.
- (LGBTQ) To return to one's birth-assigned gender after having undergone gender reassignment; to detransition.
- 2019, Paul Rhodes Eddy, James K. Beilby, “Understanding Transgender Experiences and Identities: An Introduction”, in Understanding Transgender Identities: Four Views, unnumbered page:
- Finally, some who embrace the psychological paradigm critique transition-affirmative approaches by pointing to studies showing that a statistically significant number of people who have undergone transition – one 2009 study suggests up to 8 percent – have later expressed regrets, with some even deciding to retransition back to their birth sex.
- 2019, Shervin Shandianloo, Richard R. Pleak, “Mental Health Issues in Caring for the Transgender Population”, in Leonid Poretsky, Wylie C. Hembree, editors, Transgender Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach[2], page 122:
- If a socially transitioned child desists and later comes to identify with their birth-assigned gender, the child must then retransition to that gender, which could be difficult and pose risks for the child at that older age.
- 2022, Denise Ann Bodman, Bethany Bustamante Van Vleet, Randal D. Day, Introduction to Family Processes: Diverse Families, Common Ties, unnumbered page:
- In some cases, individuals may “detransition” (or retransition) to their assigned/biological gender, further complicating identity and family relationships.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:retransition.
- (LGBTQ) To undergo another transition, for example to transition back to one's earlier (trans) gender after having temporarily detransitioned to one's birth-assigned gender, or to transition to a binary trans gender after an earlier transition to non-binary.
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