The most common gender affirming surgery is breast augmentation -- in cis (non-trans) women.
The regret rate is around 20%.
Gender affirming surgeries in trans people have around a 1% regret rate.
Guess which people need approval from a mental health provider...
I would love a source for this if you have one please
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%
Based on this review, there is an extremely low prevalence of regret in transgender patients after GAS.
(Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.There is an unknown percentage of transgender and gender non-confirming individuals who undergo gender-affirmation surgeries (GAS) that experiences regret. Regret could lead to physical and mental ...
Highly interesting. However, I wonder if the two situations are comparable. In this study about breast reconstruction after mastectomy (mean age: 52 years), most of the women apparently regretted because the surgery results were bad (=poor quality of plastic surgery).
And the study stresses the importance of therapeutic approaches accompanying the decision making process.
Anyway, it's complicated... and society/industry with its demands on women's bodies and binary gender categories definitely sucks.
@joelle @earthworm @doxy_cycling Hah! I spoke too soon. I was just wondering about this and should have just read more of the replies before asking.
Thank you for the info.
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