detransition
Syllables: de·tran·si·tionUK/ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/US/ˌdi.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/
detransition verb: to revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.
Verb
detransition (third-person singular simple present detransitions, present participle detransitioning, simple past and past participle detransitioned)
- 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.2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married, page 303
- I recently had an encounter in which I was asked if I was detransitioning simply because I was wearing a pair of jeans!2014, Michelle Spicer, The Transgender Handbook
Noun
detransition (plural detransitions)
- The act of one who detransitions.
- But in 2020, after coming across detransition videos online, she began to doubt the gender-affirming model.2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024
Examples of detransition in a sentence
- “I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me.2024 February 2, Pamela Paul, “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
- Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.”2025 June 18, “UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States...
Forms of detransition
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | detransitions |
| present participle | detransitioning |
| past participle | detransitioned |
| past | detransitioned |
| Noun | |
| plural | detransitions |
Origin of detransition
From de- + transition.
Words formed from detransition
Words that rhyme with detransition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
Questions about detransition
- What does detransition mean?
- Detransition means to revert to one's original gender presentation, role, or identity.
- How do you use detransition in a sentence?
- “I wish there had been more open conversations,” Powell, now 23 and detransitioned, told me.
- What part of speech is detransition?
- Detransition can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce detransition?
- Detransition is pronounced /ˌdiː.tɹænˈzɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of detransition?
- The past tense of detransition is detransitioned.
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Source and license
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