Nowhere GirlSo few cis people seem to appreciate just how hard it is to obtain puberty blockers and hormones because conversations about "regret" frequently rely on the built-in assumption it's quick and easy and kids especially are being "rushed" through the process without adequate safeguards, which is untrue, but it's exactly the idea being planted in people's heads by these anti-trans moral panic "just asking questions" concern troll articles in mainstream media.
And because cis people, as a rule, don't even think about their gender or understand how blockers and hormones work, they rarely comprehend a) how long hormones take to produce noticeable effects, b) that people who dislike those effects have plenty of time to stop, and c) that cis people accidentally taking them would quickly stop as it would cause dysphoria, unlike actual trans people.
That is to say, rates of "regret" and detransitioning are inherently going to be low because transitioning tends to weed out people who don't want it by its very nature.
And in fact, studies suggest the vast majority of detransitioners are actually trans but have been forced to stop temporarily because of financial, family, or social pressure.
There's also no evidence for a recent surge in detransitioning caused by people who mistakenly transitioned due to "social contagion."
And the thing is, we've known all of this for quite some time.
But like I said, the point of the anti-trans media blitz is to obfuscate this information and make it seem as if something new and nefarious is going on.
It is not driven by legitimate concerns, only bigotry and far right political interests.
The same with rigged studies designed to "prove" bullshit like "ROGD" by basically opinion polling anti-trans parents.
Fake science, a classic of right-wing politics.
Unfortunately, we live in a violently transphobic society where trans people face severe discrimination and abuse at every level.
So there is nothing more insulting to the intelligence than the suggestion that there is some widespread, sustained social pressure, online or off, for cis people to transition. It doesn't exist. It doesn't happen.
Quite the opposite, in fact, as any trans person could tell you.
Like, if there was this massive groundswell of support for trans people and transitioning, would we be seeing bans and apathetic cis people everywhere we look?
Mister Shade@gwynnion Sadly, I think yes.
We overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion in our state recently. Our Republican politicians had no shits to give. The attacks haven’t stopped. Their hatred seems to overwhelm their common sense.
Kevin Karhan 
@Maxanadu_MX02 @gwynnion that's because hate and othering are easy ways to distract their voting base from the actual issues that need fixing.
People busy hating on others for existing won't question the status quo nor want to change it in that regard...
Shoq@gwynnion It's never about the reality for the right. It's just about the grievance, and positing it as a threat to them, justifying their threatening you, or any target of opportunity. Team Hate has a deep bench. We have far too few responses to any of what they do.
MerrieMcGaw@gwynnion Anyone related to, loving, or even knowing a trans person well, would 100% say the same thing!
@gwynnion we know this for like a hundred years now...
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1221502678699663361
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1221502678699663361
It's Just Jenn 🏳️⚧️@gwynnion I guess in an ideal world I might have liked to "try out" hormones when I was younger just to see if I liked how I felt, but in this judgemental, dangerous world we live in the very idea that somebody would go through all of that hardship because of "social contagion" is low-effort thinking at best, and disingenuous at worst.
John Harris@gwynnion This is a useful way to think about it, I have a friend who's a little TERFy but I think isn't entirely unreachable, the next time she broaches the issue these points are good for arguing back.