03/09/2023
A new study demonstrates the fact that anti-transgender extremists who claim that lots of trans people regret underdoing procedures to affirm their gender identity, are lying. So writes Amelia Hansford at top gay newswire Pink News. Amelia notes "The study from the University of Michigan – published in the journal JAMA Surgery – found that the median satisfaction rate among those surveyed was five out of a five.Regret was 0 out of 100, meaning not a single patient involved in the study regretted their choice to have the surgery. None of the respondents reported undergoing reversal procedures". The survey authors said "Gender-affirming mastectomy is the most common gender-affirming procedure in the US and is performed on transgender or nonbinary individuals who were assigned female sex at birth.12 We aimed to measure long-term satisfaction with decision and decisional regret using previously validated instruments in individuals who had gender-affirming mastectomy more than 2 years ago in order to inform patients considering gender-affirming mastectomy and policy makers regulating these operations." In their conclusion, they noted "There were no individuals who underwent reversal procedures. While prospective, multicenter work is needed, these results are consistent with previous ad hoc studies and affirm the overwhelmingly low levels of regret following gender-affirming surgery."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery
