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A new study was published showing that transgender people who opt for top surgery have very little regret. Conservatives are predictably out

The study itself is titled, “Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender-Affirming Mastectomy,” and sought to study the rate of regret and satisfaction after 2 years or more following gender affirming top surgery. The study’s results were stunning - in 139 surgery patients, the median regret score was 0/100 and the median satisfaction score was 5/5 with similar means as well. In other words… regret was virtually nonexistent in the study among post-op transgender people. In fact, the regret was so low that many statistical techniques would not even work due to the uniformity of the numbers: In this cross-sectional survey study of participants who underwent gender-affirming mastectomy 2.0 to 23.6 years ago, respondents had a high level of satisfaction with their decision and low rates of decisional regret. The median Satisfaction With Decision score was 5 on a 5-point scale, and the median decisional regret score was 0 on a 100-point scale. This extremely low level of regret and dissatisfaction and lack of variance in scores impeded the ability to determine meaningful associations among these results, clinical outcomes, and demographic information. The numbers are in line with many other studies on satisfaction among transgender people. Detransition rates, for instance, have been pegged at somewhere between 1-3%, with transgender youth seeing very low detransition rates. Surgery regret is in line with at least 27 other studies that show a pooled regret rate of around 1% - compare this to regret rates from things like knee surgery, which can be as high as 30%. Gender affirming care appears to be extremely well tolerated with very low instances of regret when compared to other medically necessary care.

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The intense conservative backlash, to the point of disputing reputable scientific journals, likely stems from the fact that reduced regret rates weaken a central narrative these figures have championed in legal and legislative spaces. Over the past three years, anti-trans entities have showcased political detransitioners, reminiscent of the ex-gay campaigns from the 1990s and 2000s, to argue that regrets over gender transition and detransition are widespread. Some have even asserted detransition rates of up to 80%, a claim that has been broadly debunked. Yet, research consistently struggles to find substantial evidence supporting this narrative. The rarity of detransition and regret is underscored by Florida's inability to enlist a single resident to bear witness against a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on gender-affirming care.

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(via @some-loser-called-jab )

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Unmute !

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That’s a gunfight in a Looney Tunes cartoon

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thanks, @tenspookybugs !

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If you can’t hear this, it’s like a cross between a pinball machine and every silly “gunfire pew pew” joke you’ve ever run across.

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Thank you @athenasdragon

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On a completely unrelated note, the guy in the video who threw the rocks, Cory Williams, is responsible for this ancient Internet relic known as the Mean Kitty song.

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Reblogging for first the ice ping, which I remember, then reblogging for the shock that is remembering Sparta The Mean Kitty.

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Just adding in passing: this is why folktales in cultures that coexist with glaciers so often feature tropes suggesting that the glaciers are haunted by something—routinely, the spirits of the unquiet dead. And from the dead (or whatever else is up there, buried in the ice) come all kinds of weird and uncanny noises…