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.
@earthworm @joelle @matrix @doxy_cycling @oliphant I think I’ve found a new candidate for #defederation. They run the instance they’re on.