GUIDANCE
Cardinal Support Network offers a variety of informal support for parents and detransitioners.
We can point you toward professional resources or provide emotional and informational support,
depending on your needs.
Parent-to-Parent Mentoring
Sometimes, you feel like you are all alone struggling with your feelings and you just need to speak with someone else who shares your experience, who can provide you with a sounding board and connections with other parents facing similar situations.
Parents of Desisters, a new website offering even more resources: HERE
I was a Girl, who wanted to be a Boy Article, HERE
Parents of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoric Children and Adults, HERE
Genspect Support Groups, HERE
Clinicians do not seem to want to admit mistakes and many detransitioners never return to the physician that harmed them.
"Medical detransition was often experienced as physically and psychologically challenging, yet health care avoidance was common. Participants described experiencing stigma and interacting with clinicians who were unprepared to meet their detransition-related medical needs.
Conclusions and Relevance This study’s results suggest that further research and clinical guidance is required to address the unmet needs of this population who discontinue or seek to reverse prior gender-affirming interventions." HERE
Detransitioning Connections
If you have been through transition and have decided, for whatever reason, that your best option is to accept your birth sex and get on with living, you may still need some assistance either medically, legally, or psychologically. We can point you to resources and professionals who can provide you guidance and care. You are not alone in your health concerns as many detransitioners are not receiving the mental health therapy that encourages body acceptance.
Support Groups are available. Genspect is the first online support group, yet others are starting across the country. HERE
Detransition survey by Dr. Lisa Littman: HERE
Therapist, Stephanie Winn offers help with filing complaints: HERE
Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey, Elie Vandenbussche, BA
Click HERE
Get Legal Help
Confidential Guidance
The hardest part of this situation can be finding a therapist who will not automatically affirm an alternate identity, but will be willing to explore a wide-variety of potential mental and developmental issues which may be at play.
Complete the parent survey and someone will contact you. In the meantime, please explore our variety of resources to get you started on the path that could work best for you and your child.