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/
@earthworm @doxy_cycling And this looks at breast reconstruction after masectomy in (cis) women. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233371110_Regret_associated_with_the_decision_for_breast_reconstruction_The_association_of_negative_body_image_distress_and_surgery_characteristics_with_decision_regret
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.
@doxy_cycling @earthworm @joelle The worst thing is that society thinks that breasts = women. Women feel pressure to get reconstruction surgery, lest they be viewed as “less feminine.” Our “femininity” (don’t like that word, because it has a very narrow definition, and doesn’t allow for all the different ways women should be allowed to live and express themselves!!) is defined by others, and by our physical forms. It’s utter BS.
@earthworm @joelle @matrix @doxy_cycling @oliphant I think I’ve found a new candidate for #defederation. They run the instance they’re on.