detransition
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/ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/(UK)
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/ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/(UK) · /ˌdiː.tɹɑːnˈzɪ.ʃən/(UK) · /-sɪ-/(UK) · /-ʒən/(UK) · /ˌdi.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/(US) · /-sɪ-/(US)
Definition of detransition
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)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.”
“I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!”
““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.”
“Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.””
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verb
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(intransitive)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.”
“I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!”
““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.”
“Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.””
noun
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The act of one who detransitions.
“But in 2020, after coming across detransition videos online, she began to doubt the gender-affirming model.”
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Etymology
From de- + transition.
Words you can make from detransition
200+ playable · top: TRANSITIONED (13 pts)
Best play transitioned 13 points11-letter words
1 word10-letter words
15 words9-letter words
43 words- ADROITEST 10 pts
- ANTIDOTES 10 pts
- ANTINODES 10 pts
- DAINTIEST 10 pts
- DENTATION 10 pts
- DENTITION 10 pts
- DERATIONS 10 pts
- DETRITION 10 pts
- DISORIENT 10 pts
- DISTRAINT 10 pts
- DISTRAITE 10 pts
- DITTANIES 10 pts
- IDEATIONS 10 pts
- INDENTORS 10 pts
- INTONATED 10 pts
- IODINATES 10 pts
- NIDATIONS 10 pts
- NOTARISED 10 pts
- ORDINATES 10 pts
- RENDITION 10 pts
- RETINOIDS 10 pts
- STATIONED 10 pts
- TRADITION 10 pts
- TRANSITED 10 pts
- ANOINTERS 9 pts
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- INSERTION 9 pts
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- INTONATES 9 pts
- INTRANETS 9 pts
- ITERATION 9 pts
- ITINERANT 9 pts
- NITRATION 9 pts
- NONARTIST 9 pts
- REANOINTS 9 pts
- RESTATION 9 pts
- SERIATION 9 pts
- STATIONER 9 pts
- STRIATION 9 pts
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- TRANSIENT 9 pts
- TRETINOIN 9 pts
8-letter words
99 words- ADENITIS 9 pts
- ANDIRONS 9 pts
- ANEROIDS 9 pts
- ANODISER 9 pts
- ANOINTED 9 pts
- ANTIDOTE 9 pts
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- ATTORNED 9 pts
- DAINTIER 9 pts
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- DERISION 9 pts
- DETRAINS 9 pts
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- DISINTER 9 pts
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7-letter words
41 words- AIRSIDE 8 pts
- ANDIRON 8 pts
- ANEROID 8 pts
- ANODISE 8 pts
- ANTIRED 8 pts
- ARIDEST 8 pts
- ASTRIDE 8 pts
- ATTENDS 8 pts
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- DISTANT 8 pts
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- ATTORNS 7 pts
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