Transgender

ha, the concept is a bit strange - we're not at a place where people understand that being trans isn't a choice (just like being gay), so there is a real comparison between the "ex-gay" movement and the push for detransition.

To be fair, there are people who detransition, most of them only because they don't have enough support in their lives to transition. It is difficult to transition, and sometimes just not possible when your employer discriminates against you and fires you, and your spouse leaves you, and your family and friends turn their backs on you, etc. - this leads people to decide to detransition. A lot of those people transition again later in life.

So I don't think it's necessarily wrong for there to be a community for people detransitioning - their experiences and needs are worth discussing (esp. when detransitioning can be met with such strong reactions from other trans people). The /r/actual_detrans subreddit for a while was a trans-affirming detrans space, but increasingly I feel it has been infected (it's hard to keep the TERFs out I guess).

But because it's a political weapon the anti-trans movement co-opts those detrans spaces and they try to push narratives that trans people don't really exist (or are far rarer) and that detransitioners are just the ones who came to their senses and realized what they were doing was a mistake.