Peter James Steven
Detransitioner and creator of detrans.ai
Peter James Steven is the detransitioner who built detrans.ai — an AI tool designed to give a community that mainstream platforms routinely sideline a real presence in the age of artificial intelligence. On Beyond Gender he walks Stella, Mia, and Bret through the project's origins, its technical design, and what the patterns emerging from its database reveal.
Peter James Steven detransitioned and found that the AI tools reshaping how people seek information were not built with detransitioners in mind — or worse, were actively steering them away from their own experiences. His response was to build something different. Detrans.ai is an AI tool designed specifically for detransitioners and those questioning their transition, trained to treat gender-affirmation ideology as a variable rather than a given. Where mainstream AI tools tend to affirm, detrans.ai is built to listen.
In the Beyond Gender episode detrans.ai: A Counter Narrative (February 2026), Peter sits down with Stella O'Malley, Mia Hughes, and Dr Bret Alderman to trace the project from its origins to its current form. He explains the technical decisions behind the tool, the challenges of building AI that pushes back against a dominant narrative, and what it has been like to operate outside the institutional structures that typically define who gets to shape AI development.
Equally revealing is the conversation around the patterns that have emerged from detrans.ai's database. The aggregate picture — shared experiences, recurring themes — offers a data-grounded counterpoint to a clinical and media landscape that has long treated detransition as marginal or anecdotal. For Peter, the tool is not just practical infrastructure; it is an argument about who deserves representation in the technology being built to answer our most personal questions.
His appearance on Beyond Gender is a rare look inside a project built from lived experience as much as technical skill — and a pointed conversation about what is lost when the communities most in need of honest information are the ones mainstream AI is least equipped to serve.
