That’s often how transphobes define detransition, because they have to juke every stat they can. (Not saying that’s why the authors are doing it, but they are probably having to navigate a scene filled with data based on that) When bigots say X% detransition, they don’t mention the *re-*transition that many go through, or that many detransitioners don’t “return” to their birth sex identity because they never had a binary gender identity to begin with.
By their definition I’ve detransitioned before when I was off hormones and not making an effort at presenting as male, but it was 100% situational and I knew it was a temporary thing while it was happening.
Transphobes intentionally muddy the water by letting people assume that the colloquial definition most people use—deciding you aren’t transgender and that you want to return to your birth sex—is the same one they’re using. But it’s absolutely not.
Does Puerto Rico not get funds from feds for roads? I thought funding for that was tied to the drinking age being raised to 21, but now that I’m thinking of it that might be interstate funds. Which PR wouldn’t need for obvious reasons.