The therapist claims she’s never encountered a patient who detransitioned. Several reasons for this, aside from lying.

1. Detransitioners are famously “lost to follow-up.” They almost never go back to the clinic that transitioned them, because they know that nothing useful will come of it. The Tavistock in the U.K. transitioned thousands of children without a shred of follow-up data. If you view transitioning as a cure, why worry about your patients after you’ve cured them? Lisa Littman’s detransitioner study revealed that only 24% bothered to inform their doctors.

2. The therapist in this story has no incentive to consider the existence of the detrans population. It would put her entire mission in doubt and cause her to wonder whether she was actually harming the people she thinks she’s helping. This indifference to the long-term well-being of her patients is the sign of an ideologue, not a scientist or an evidence-based person. She could not possibly be evidence-based if she has convinced herself that her clients have a congenital condition that she’s correcting through transition.

By the way, one very serious side effect of long-term testosterone use in women not mentioned in the article is uterine prolapse, which is going to occur after about four or five years of regular use. This is a life threatening condition which requires immediate medical attention. The daughter in this article claims she wants children. If she’s referring to getting pregnant, she better hurry up. Good grief.