2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband, pages 258-259:
I want to know how those people experience their transness, if they were guilty of simply being too repressed as men and thought the only door out of that was marked WOMAN. I don't know what they do after they realize they weren't good at being men but can't live as women. Some of them retransition later.
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, 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.
2020, Ben Vincent, Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare, page 91:
The desire and action of Ash to modify their body in relation to how they felt regarding gender at different stages in their life defies the expectations of gender identity clinics – that gender-affirming procedures should be permanent. This expectation is due to the 'common sense' (and ultimately cissexist) notion that if gendered desire is impermanent, it is 'less real', which shapes the standards that are considered ethical within medical practice. Thus, there is a lack of clinically intelligible narratives where individuals have continued transitioning, or retransitioned, without it being characterised as 'regret'.
Verb: "(LGBT) to return to one's birth-assigned gender after having undergone gender reassignment"
2018, Alexander Yoo, "Transition Regret and Detransition", in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans at Risk: Problems and Solutions (eds. Chuck Stewart), page 187:
A changing society, more choices, and lack of access in past decades contributed to the choices made by some who retransitioned or expressed regret. "Josh," a female-to-male trans person, transitioned out of necessity in the 1980s. He retained a male name and presentation, but if queer women and butch expression had been more tolerated with less danger of physical and emotional assault, he may have stayed a butch lesbian.
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 Transgender Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach (eds. Leonid Poretsky & Wylie C. Hembree), 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.
2019, Kelley Winters, "The '80% Desistance' Dictum: Is It Science?", in Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (eds. Andrew R. Gottlieb & Arlene I. Lev), unnumbered page:
Moreover, Dutch researchers added yet another hypothesis to explain away observed persistence in socially transitioned children, gender roles speculating that those who socially transition to non–birth assigned gender roles could be prevented from retransitioning back to birth-assigned roles by overwhelming social forces: […]
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.