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desistance

noun as in close

noun as in closure

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Desistance means when someone stops identifying as transgender and pursuing medical transition.

From Slate

Voting is “part of a package of pro-social behavior that is linked to desistance from crime.”

We need people excited about comedians sticking it to dumbstruck conservative attorneys general who can’t even name the medical organization she’s attributing her completely made-up, bogus desistance statistic to.

From Slate

Rather, they use the threat of certain but nonsevere punishments to encourage people to find their own paths to desistance.

The idea that many trans kids will grow out of it is referred to in research as desistance.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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