“A trenchant critique of the radical ideology and junk science underpinning the ethical scandal unfolding in America’s gender clinics.”
– Helen Joyce, Journalist, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, working with Sex Matters campaign group
We live in unprecedented times, when what was known for thousands of years, that we are created male and female, is now up for debate. It is now controversial to see that sex is binary, that a man can never become a woman, nor a woman a man, and that men should not enter women’s sports, women’s bathrooms, and women’s prisons, merely for saying that they are a woman. We are witnessing a rapid rise in gender confusion among young people, especially among young women and girls.
The Detransition Diaries is both personal and historical. It is personal in that it recounts the stories of five women and two men who felt they were born in the wrong body and believed the lie they were told by peers, teachers, and medical professionals that they could be their “true” selves by medically and surgically altering their bodies to match the opposite sex. Their stories describe the short- and long-term harm that so-called gender-affirmative medicine did to their mental and physical health. The book is historical because it outlines the history of the “gender-affirmation” movement, including the various individuals and organizations who have peddled the idea that the sexual binary is arbitrary.
The book closes with an analysis on how this dark chapter in medical abuse might end and what is needed for medicine to regain its obligation to do no harm.
Press Release:
Will the Voices of Detransitioners Finally Be Heard?
Detransitioners get a voice in new book about devastating pro-trans movement
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14, 2024 – The pro-trans movement is loud and demanding yet their dark underside is rarely discussed — until now. THE DETRANSITION DIARIES, by Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell, gives detransitioners a voice and reveals the horrifying truth about the medical, mental and physical abuse happening within the trans movement.
THE DETRANSITION DIARIES tells the stories of five women and two men who felt they were born in the wrong body and believed the lie they were told by peers, teachers and medical professionals that they could be their “true” selves by medically and surgically altering their bodies to match the opposite sex. Their stories describe the short- and long-term harm that so-called gender-affirmative medicine did to their mental and physical health. THE DETRANSITION DIARIES also outlines the history of the “gender-affirmation” movement, including lack of research into puberty blockers and the medical abuse many of these transitioners of suffered.
Lahl is the founder and former president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture (CBC). She spent twenty-five years in pediatric nursing and senior-level hospital management before founding the CBC. An award-winning documentary maker, she has produced several films, including Trans Mission: What’s the Rush to Reassign Gender?, The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our
Sisters, and The Lost Boys: Searching for Manhood. Fell is the executive director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a perinatal nurse. In addition to coproducing documentaries for CBC, she hosts the podcast “Venus Rising,” and is the program director for the Paul Ramsey Institute.
THE DETRANSITION DIARIES is a sequel to their 2022 film, The Detransition Diaries: Saving
Our Sisters, which highlighted the stories of mostly young girls who transitioned as teenagers and then decided to detransition for a variety of reasons. “Jennifer Lahl and Kallie Fell, with courage born of compassion, give voices to the victims of gender
ideology and the gender-industrial complex,” said Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University.
For more information, to request a review copy, or to schedule an interview with Jennifer Lahl and
Kallie Fell, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com) of Carmel Communications.
| To reach us comment or interview please email Kallie Fell at Kallie.fell@cbc-network.org. To request a review copy of the book, please email Kevin Wandra at kwandra@ |
Media Links
- New Book Gives Voice to Increasing Number of Young Detransitioners | Catholic Vote
- Jennifer Lahl on the Detransitioner Movement and Influences | The Washington Stand
- Kallie Fell, director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network: We can all learn from the resilience of detransitioners | Voz Media
- 0642. Gender Ideology and Detransitioning – Jennifer Lahl, 3/4/24 | Issues, Etc. Podcast
- Afraid to Be Female | Fairer Disputations
- Heartbreaking Stories Of Detransitioners Expose The Damaging Transgender Cult | The Federalist
- The Truth About Sexual Transition | First Things Mag
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