No, your parents were not correct about you.

Carey Callahan
6 min readOct 9, 2022

In the past 2 years I’ve had to reckon with my choices to create (with many other very cool women and some cool men) a new public gender identity. Many detransitioners have to push back with medical professionals during their detransition with the assumption that we are genderqueer, or nonbinary. That we are leaving a binary gender identity and claiming a more fluid one. There are people for whom occupying a nonbinary gender identity really WORKS. They are able to be more fully themselves, calmer, happier, more free because of those identity options, and that’s a really positive…

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Carey Callahan

LPCC, IMFT, detransitioner, I don't do twitter bc ppl are awful, follow me on tiktok @detranslightful