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Culture | Family | Healthcare
Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT
Catholic Information Center
1501 K Street NW
Washington,
DC
20005
United States
Description
You’re invited to our upcoming talk with reporter Mary Margaret Olohan on her newly released book, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult.
Mary Margaret’s talk will offer you a glimpse of her new book, which features multiple interviews with detransitioners and gives a voice to young people who were influenced by gender ideology.
The event will be offered both in-person and virtually through YouTube. Please RSVP today.
June 4th Schedule:
- 6:00-7:00 PM: Talk by Mary Margaret (this portion will be live-streamed)
- 7:00-8:00 PM: Book signing and reception
- 8:00pm: Conclusion
About the Book:
Trans activists are all about speaking up—unless you regret your “transition” and have made the journey back. If you question gender ideology, you’d better keep your mouth shut. But a compelling new book features multiple interviews with detransitioners and gives a voice to young people who were caught up in this damaging ideology. And their testimony—including from the lawsuits they have filed against the gender-affirming medical and therapeutic professionals who treated them—is unforgettable. “Gay Pride Month” every June has become an unquestioning celebration not just of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals, but also of Transitioning. Detransitioners’ experience reveals that there’s more complexity and pain involved in that category than most people will ever guess.
The number of teens and pre-teens persuaded they were born with the wrong body has exploded. Goaded by a toxic online “community” and assisted by teachers, doctors, and even their own parents, they are promptly set on the path of puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gruesome “gender-affirming” surgeries.
Media and activists insist that “transitioning” is the happy ending to these stories. But countless young people bear terrible emotional and physical scars. Adding to their anguish, the transgender community that once embraced them now wants to keep them quiet.
Now one fearless reporter, Mary Margaret Olohan, shares their stories. Based on in-depth personal interviews, Detrans exposes the unconscionable abuse these detransitioners have endured—manipulative therapy sessions, mental and emotional anguish, botched surgeries, and attempts to construct phantom body parts. Their testimonies reveal a truth so disturbing that transgender activists will do anything to hide it.
Detrans is indispensable evidence of the life-shattering power of gender ideology.
What people are saying
“The stories in Detrans are heartbreaking. But you need to read them. Mary Margaret Olohan brilliantly narrates the lives that have been damaged by transgender ideology while highlighting the human costs of getting human nature wrong. The brave young people she profiles in this book are both victims and heroes—the victims of a grotesque medical scandal, and the heroes that will bring it to an end.”
Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D.
President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of "When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment"
“Mary Margaret Olohan uses lived experiences to highlight the severity and harm being done to the victims of the gender ideology movement. To turn a blind eye to the adverse effects of this extreme movement is to be complacent. After reading this book, you will see that the argument is not ‘anti-trans’; the argument is pro–child safeguarding, pro-fairness, and pro-truth.”
Riley Gaines
Twelve-time NCAA all-American swimmer, five-time SEC champion, and ambassador for the Independent Women’s Forum ambassador
“Mary Margaret Olohan’s fearless reporting exposes the brutal, horrifying nature of ‘gender affirming care’ for children and young adults and the medical field’s complicity in it. The brave detransitioners she profiles share what it’s actually like to gender transition in gripping detail. Their stories, so thoughtfully and sensitively chronicled in Detrans, are unforgettable.”
Katrina Trinko
Editor in Chief of The Daily Signal
“While much of the media and medical establishment would rather ignore the devastating stories of detransitioners, Mary Margaret Olohan ensures they’re heard. Detrans documents a medical scandal of historic proportions, with countless young people manipulated and betrayed into believing they were ‘born in the wrong bodies.’ Anyone who cares about the well-being of children can’t look away from this book and the horrors it exposes.”
Kelsey Bolar
Executive Produce of the Identity Crisis series and Senior Policy Analyst at Independent Women's Forum
“Until recently, no one knew the word ‘detransitioner.’ It refers to a growing army of victims of the gender quackery that has captured major medical groups. Patients are promised relief through drugs and surgery, but more and more are realizing they were sold a lie. Mary Margaret Olohan’s book will introduce you to many young detransitioners. But her book is not just individual biographies. Olohan shows the recurring stages that these young people traverse—from the social pressure and encouragement at the beginning, to the realization, regret, and aftermath. Her account is both moving and infuriating. Let’s pray Detrans helps put an end to this madness.”
Jay Richards, Ph.D.
William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow in Religious Liberty and Civil Society and Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation
About the Speaker
Mary Margaret Olohan is a senior reporter for The Daily Signal and author of Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult. She previously reported for both The Daily Caller and the Daily Wire, and is a graduate of the Catholic University of America.
