Wednesday is Detransition Awareness Day, but the healthcare system is unaware of detransitioners 365 days a year. A growing number of individuals regret having received irreversible “gender-affirming” interventions, with many having had their gender distress erroneously attributed to a transgender identity. Despite their continued medical struggles, detransitioners are invisible within the system of medical diagnosis codes, rendering them and their iatrogenic condition nonexistent.
The healthcare system recognizes patients treated for gender nonconformity with multiple International Classification of Diseases diagnosis codes that allow clinicians to accurately document these visits, making them, like all billed clinical encounters, amenable to tracking and research.
But no code exists for patients who regret their gender transitions and need help detransitioning to…
