‘She Needs Support, Not Puberty Blockers’: Detransitioners on How to Help Teenagers With Gender Dysphoria

Lee Hazel was a detransitioner, and according to her, society’s perception of trans-identified people was flawed. Standing on the steps of the Victorian Parliament on March 24, she told the crowd at the #WomenWillSpeak rally that the current push to medically transition children with gender dysphoria was not what they needed. “It’s easy to think that the typical trans-identified person is a narcissist who wants to get undressed with young girls,” said Ms. Hazel, an advocate for Detransitioners Australia and a research fellow at the University of Melbourne. “But, the typical trans-identified person is a teenage girl. “She’s highly distressed. She probably identified as non-binary and bisexual or queer, but she’s still figuring out her identity. She’s got a good chance of being autistic, and she’s probably gonna go out to be same-sex attracted.”...