The post-surgical regret rate for reassignment surgery is about 1%, one of the lowest. I would bet that's because of the rigor of the diagnosis.
If everyone going through a "nonbinary" phase was granted reassignment surgery there would be a hell of a lot of regret once the latest fad turned to, oh, having antlers grafted in, or vertical pupils.
The post-surgical regret rate for reassignment surgery is about 1%, one of the lowest. I would bet that's because of the rigor of the diagnosis.
If everyone going through a "nonbinary" phase was granted reassignment surgery there would be a hell of a lot of regret once the latest fad turned to, oh, having antlers grafted in, or vertical pupils.
"The post-surgical regret rate for reassignment surgery is about 1%, one of the lowest. I would bet that's because of the rigor of the diagnosis."
I really wonder if this is still the case. I believe this figure is based on a time when there were still actual safeguards in place. Individuals who wanted to transition received counselling and spent time living as the opposite sex before they had hormones and surgery. These simple, logical steps obviously weeded out the people who might have regretted transition.
This is all the sane people are arguing for.
I recently saw a podcast with Buck Angel and Blair White saying the same thing. It's not that I don't think trans people exist or that they'll all regret surgery (I know you're not accusing me of this), it's that the real condition of gender dysphoria has been turned into a fad with little to no concern for the children caught up in it.
Your last sentence is far and away the most important issue for me. Any gender reassignment treatment should be absolutely illegal until adulthood and psychiatric evaluation.
The adherents of this fad will not be moved by science. To even suggest a medical dimension to GD sends them into apoplectic rage.
The post-surgical regret rate for reassignment surgery is about 1%, one of the lowest. I would bet that's because of the rigor of the diagnosis.
If everyone going through a "nonbinary" phase was granted reassignment surgery there would be a hell of a lot of regret once the latest fad turned to, oh, having antlers grafted in, or vertical pupils.
"The post-surgical regret rate for reassignment surgery is about 1%, one of the lowest. I would bet that's because of the rigor of the diagnosis."
I really wonder if this is still the case. I believe this figure is based on a time when there were still actual safeguards in place. Individuals who wanted to transition received counselling and spent time living as the opposite sex before they had hormones and surgery. These simple, logical steps obviously weeded out the people who might have regretted transition.
This is all the sane people are arguing for.
I recently saw a podcast with Buck Angel and Blair White saying the same thing. It's not that I don't think trans people exist or that they'll all regret surgery (I know you're not accusing me of this), it's that the real condition of gender dysphoria has been turned into a fad with little to no concern for the children caught up in it.
Your last sentence is far and away the most important issue for me. Any gender reassignment treatment should be absolutely illegal until adulthood and psychiatric evaluation.
The adherents of this fad will not be moved by science. To even suggest a medical dimension to GD sends them into apoplectic rage.