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.
MerrieMcGaw@gwynnion Anyone related to, loving, or even knowing a trans person well, would 100% say the same thing!