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...
@britishtechguru Tonsillitis is not usually fatal. Tonsillectomy is done to improve quality of life, not to keep someone alive, generally.
That said, looks like it has about a 7% regret rate.
But even surgeries everyone agrees are done to keep someone alive, like cancer surgeries, have a significantly higher regret rate than the gender reassignement surgeries.
@joelle I had a tonsillectomy at 7 years old. Adenoids too. No regrets.
Haven't felt the need for a sex change op but I bet there are plenty doctors who'd do one without enforcing a psychiatric evaluation.
Anyone can cut off a baby boy's foreskin. Don't even need to be a doctor. That's how little value we invest as a society in the rights of children, and how hypocritical cisgender people are.
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