I doubt it needs to be repeated here, but just FYI the regret rate for gender affirming care is under the regret rate for stuff like knee surgery. As in, more people regret getting surgery on their bum knees than people who got gender affirming care like top surgery or whatever.
A total of 27 studies, pooling 7928 transgender patients who underwent any type of GAS, were included. The pooled prevalence of regret after GAS was 1% (95% CI <1%–2%). Overall, 33% underwent transmasculine procedures and 67% transfeminine procedures. The prevalence of regret among patients undergoing transmasculine and transfeminine surgeries was <1% (IC <1%–<1%) and 1% (CI <1%–2%), respectively. A total of 77 patients regretted having had GAS. Twenty-eight had minor and 34 had major regret based on Pfäfflin’s regret classification. The majority had clear regret based on Kuiper and Cohen-Kettenis classification.
Research by Medical Accident Group found that 65% of people they polled regretted their cosmetic surgery, though 28% were very happy with its results.
Of 889 studies identified, 73 patient studies and 6 physician studies met inclusion criteria. Among the 73 patient studies, 57.5% examined patients with a cancer diagnosis, with breast (26.0%) and prostate (28.8%) cancers being most common. Interestingly, self-reported patient regret was relatively uncommon with an average prevalence across studies of 14.4%. Factors most often associated with regret included type of surgery, disease-specific quality of life, and shared decision making. Only 6 studies were identified that focused on physician regret; 2 pertained to surgical decision making. These studies primarily measured regret of omission and commission using hypothetical case scenarios and used the results to develop decision curve analysis tools.
Tl;dr: Cosmetic surgeries have massive regret rates of around 65%. Cancer surgeries can have rates of 14.4% regret, many times for life saving procedures. Trans people have a 1-2% regret rate, with trasmasc bottom surgery being the highest rate of regret at 2-3%. This includes even 'cosmetic' surgeries that cis people would generally have high rates of regret, but are gender affirming for trans people.
Isn't the regret rate for transitioning procedures something like 0.5% or less of people, and of that small percentage, the prevailing reason for regret is "social stigma?"
Yeah, it's in that ballpark. Most regretters live in deeply transphobic environments, were cut off by their entire pre-transition support network without being able to find new friends in a local LGBT community, had to endure physical attacks, SA or constant, targeted harassment and things like that to make them regret their transition, or they are so let down by the results that they'll never pass good enough to endure an environment as awful as theirs. And even out of these, many go back on HRT after a while because they realize they need it no matter how much the world hates them for it. These regretters have nothing to do with what the media shows us as detrans activists. They're terribly hurt souls that deserve nothing but sympathy for what they had to go through.
Next to nobody regrets this because they were "faking it", and i can't rule out that even this subset of regretters actually is trans and is just going into repression again. Basically all of the outspoken regretters being alarmist about a trans craze and asking for more gatekeeping have some weird right wing background were i'm not the least bit surprised they can't decide if they'd hate themselves slightly less as a cis lesbian or as a straight trans dude.
I think it's higher? But either way it's such a low number that it's not a significant issue. I personally know someone who regrets it but..... he is a special case. It's a long story but he is a CHUD now and screams about liberal free-loaders while living in the house his parents left him on his inheritance.
I doubt it needs to be repeated here, but just FYI the regret rate for gender affirming care is under the regret rate for stuff like knee surgery. As in, more people regret getting surgery on their bum knees than people who got gender affirming care like top surgery or whatever.
Tl;dr: Cosmetic surgeries have massive regret rates of around 65%. Cancer surgeries can have rates of 14.4% regret, many times for life saving procedures. Trans people have a 1-2% regret rate, with trasmasc bottom surgery being the highest rate of regret at 2-3%. This includes even 'cosmetic' surgeries that cis people would generally have high rates of regret, but are gender affirming for trans people.
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ive put it this way: the rate of regret for transitioning procedures is less than that for breast augmentation procedures in cishet women
Isn't the regret rate for transitioning procedures something like 0.5% or less of people, and of that small percentage, the prevailing reason for regret is "social stigma?"
Yeah, it's in that ballpark. Most regretters live in deeply transphobic environments, were cut off by their entire pre-transition support network without being able to find new friends in a local LGBT community, had to endure physical attacks, SA or constant, targeted harassment and things like that to make them regret their transition, or they are so let down by the results that they'll never pass good enough to endure an environment as awful as theirs. And even out of these, many go back on HRT after a while because they realize they need it no matter how much the world hates them for it. These regretters have nothing to do with what the media shows us as detrans activists. They're terribly hurt souls that deserve nothing but sympathy for what they had to go through.
Next to nobody regrets this because they were "faking it", and i can't rule out that even this subset of regretters actually is trans and is just going into repression again. Basically all of the outspoken regretters being alarmist about a trans craze and asking for more gatekeeping have some weird right wing background were i'm not the least bit surprised they can't decide if they'd hate themselves slightly less as a cis lesbian or as a straight trans dude.
Included in detransitioner numbers are also people who detransition because of financial pressures :amerikkka:
I think it's higher? But either way it's such a low number that it's not a significant issue. I personally know someone who regrets it but..... he is a special case. It's a long story but he is a CHUD now and screams about liberal free-loaders while living in the house his parents left him on his inheritance.