Quick answer
What is a detransitioner?
A detransitioner is someone who socially or medically transitioned and later stopped or reversed that transition. In the free documentary Not Standing Alone, detransitioners including Maia Poet share their experiences, and clinicians explain why they believe mental-health care has to come before any medical step.
For immediate release · Wrong Speak Films · — Not Standing Alone is a 63-minute documentary filmed at the Genspect conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where detransitioners, therapists, doctors and parents spoke openly about gender medicine for children. It streams free with a free account.
In their own words
One young woman explains that she was identified as trans at 15 in an inpatient program, started hormones at 17 and had a double mastectomy at 19 — with serious complications. "My healthy female body is not a pathology," she says.
Detransitioner Maia Poet shares her own story. Others explain why they believe mental-health care has to come before any medical step.
The teen surge
Clinicians in the film explain that for decades the typical patient with gender dysphoria was a young child or a middle-aged man — until a sharp rise in teenagers, above all teenage girls, many with no childhood signs and significant mental-health struggles. They note even WPATH's latest standards of care recognize the trend.
Puberty blockers and "lifelong patients"
"What you're creating are patients — chronic medical patients for life," the film opens. Speakers question blocking a child's natural puberty and treating distress with avoidance, which one therapist says "goes against the very fundamentals of therapy."
In America's Moms, Abigail Martinez describes how her daughter was given testosterone without her consent, and how she later lost her.
Questions
- Is Not Standing Alone free?
- Yes. The full 63-minute film plays free in the Wrong Speak Theater for anyone with a free account.
About Wrong Speak Films
Wrong Speak Films is an independent documentary film production company founded by author, speaker and filmmaker Adam B. Coleman, also the founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Its documentaries include America's Moms, Not Standing Alone and The Illegal Highways.
Press and interview requests: contact Wrong Speak Films.