Amplifying the Voices of Black Lesbian Detransitioners
✌🏾 Don't Shoot the Messenger. ✌🏾
We’ve come full circle, my friends. It was just one week ago that I had the ‘audacity’ to share the stories of black lesbian detransitioners in my Instagram story, only to find my account suspended the next morning. I hadn’t written much else, other than to mention that the reason why I felt it so important to share these stories, is because most organizations and platforms who amplify the voices of detransitioners, only share stories about white people.
Until recently, I had only known of one black female detransitioner whose voice had been well-circulated, and it was Keira Bell, a UK-based activist who opened a very high-profile legal case to ban the prescription of puberty blockers for teenagers. Until I dug super deep, I did not know very many U.S.-based black detransitioners. There were certainly none who had been included in these important conversations within the gender-critical media, other than Keira.
Black people, and especially black lesbians, have been adversely affected by gender ideology in unique ways, and our voices need to be heard, in order to round out the discussion. Gender ideology is affecting our communities and hitting us hard in ways that are largely unspoken for. The show simply cannot go on without us.
THIS, ladies and gents, is the reason why I was cancelled. These stories were in active circulation- people re-posting and sharing them…and a few hours later, my account (and all related accounts, including my Facebook business page for my documentary film that I’ve had for over a decade) was all gone. I’ve been outspoken about so many gender-critical related issues over the past year on my Instagram, and surely offended so many people, but apparently this was just too. damn. much.
Too much!!!
Well, you know how woke folk operate. If they can’t bear to engage with truth openly and honestly, they’d rather just shoot the messenger so they don’t have to look at it anymore.
I will not be silenced, and I won’t allow my sisters to be silenced either. I’m re-sharing their stories here, and continuing to amplify the voices we so desperately need.
Speaking about her experience as a detrans woman who is now identifying as a black lesbian, and also responding to a video by another detrans black lesbian-someone I’m also acquainted with. The video Ally is responding to has been removed.
Jalisa’s Story *Update, July 2023*
Jalisa began posting on Youtube again, sharing her detransition story, and her beautiful light with all of us! I’m grateful to be able to update this post with her new video. Her old videos sharing her detransition story were taken down at the time I created this post, so I had initially shared another vlogger’s response to her old video, which you can find below.
Anokhi’s Response to Jalisa’s Story (Older Videos)
*Note: I am sharing Anokhi’s video responding to Jalisa, a detransitioned biracial woman. Jalisa had made several videos, where she vulnerably and openly shared her journey with detransition, the grief she carried around her top and bottom surgeries, and her newfound path to healing and self-love. I tried to find those videos, but she has since removed them from the public sphere. Jalisa is a beautiful spirit, and I often cried with her, watching her videos. Her pain was palpable, and I can understand why she may have wanted to remove them.
I share this video because Anokhi’s response was another treasure to find, as she’s probably the first young black masculine-presenting lesbian I’d ever seen on Youtube who had an openly gender-critical perspective, and who was speaking so clearly on these issues. I also share because Anokhi included clips and sound-bytes of Jalisa’s original video, where she spoke openly and honestly about her detransition.
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