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...
"Gender affirming surgeries in trans people have around a 1% regret rate.
Guess which people need approval from a mental health provider..."
That might suggest requiring such approval is quite effective in lowering the regret rate...🤔
@joelle "One thing we know is that regret rate over the years has not changed, despite gatekeeping being reduced"
That does make your point more plausible.
"Your point was that the high level of gatekeeping reduced regret rates."
Well, no. If you read carefully, I did not claim anything of the sort.
> You used a "just asking questions " emoji. <
I did, but more importantly, stating that something might suggest "X" is really not the same as positively claiming "X".
My actual point was that it would be incorrect to simply assume the regret rate would be that low independently of the gatekeeping.
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