• LegionEris [she/her]@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    In fact, one systematic review found that the average prevalence of surgical regret was 14.4% among all research studies analyzed

    Holy shit that's actually crazy to me. [I actually tracked down that number because I was so curious] (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1007/s00268-017-3895-9) It's over half cancer surgery. I've known that the regret rate for transition surgery was low for a long time, but that piece of context kinda blows my mind. You're more likely to regret a variety of life saving procedures than gender affirming surgery, and it's often by insane orders of magnitude.