Joelle
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...
matrix07012 :thotpatrol: :cunnyEmpire:
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@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.
Joelle
@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
Earthworm
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
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.
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(Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/
Doxy_cycling, MPH MLS
I would love a source for this if you have one please
mzan
@joelle the study suggests that the mental approval process is beneficial, because there is a low regret rate. They say:
> We believe this study corroborates the improvements made in regard to selection criteria for GAS.
So the low regret rate is the effect of the selection criteria.
One can discuss about how to determine if the selection filter is too much stringent, but not that it is not useful.
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@earthworm @joelle @matrix @doxy_cycling @oliphant I think I’ve found a new candidate for #defederation. They run the instance they’re on.
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