A survey of nearly 28K "trans" people found that ONLY 8% of respondents reported transitioning regret! 🤡

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[–]hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Came here to comment exactly that.

[–]Musky 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice, I got that reference. 🧐

[–]weavilsatemyface 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Many people who regret transitioning simply drop out of the medical system and don't get selected to be in these surveys.

Often the surveys are heavily biased towards short-term regret (which is rare) and against long-term regret (which is more common). Trans people often experience a period of euphoria following transition, a "honeymoon period" when everything feels great, but once that fades regret becomes more common. Unfortunately many studies concentrate on surveying people in that honeymoon period.

And these surveys are often biased towards people who transitioned under the older "watchful waiting" policy towards teenage sexual dysphoria. That means that the people who transitioned were far more likely to be genuinely dysphoric, and therefore more likely to be satisfied with their transition. Or they were highly motivated autogynophiles. Whereas the new gender affirmation model will transition far more people who were never truly trans, but only going through a period of adolescent confusion and distress which they would have grown out of. (Previous studies found that 80 or 90% of teen sexual dysphoria faded away after a few years.) Or swept up in the social contagion.

I expect that regret rates might have been low twenty years ago but are increasing, and will soon explode.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Those people who just drop out usually drop in another way as well.

Dead men answer no surveys

[–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This.

They also associate detransition == regret.

Imagine going through a transition... twice. Some people will rather just stick to their transition at that point.

[–]The-Real-Mario 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder if they cou ted anyone who identified as "trans" , including people who transitioned from "agender" to "genderfluid" , or people who transitioned from human to cat, or people who transitioned from female to "transfemme" , or whatever the shit kids make up these days, then ofcourse that will skew their numbers , because a lot of those "transitions" are purelly in their (fucked) minds, and they know its all fake and they can "transition" back any second, and "retransition" for dinner at 8, so ofcourse they dont regret it

[–]jw329 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i wanna fuck a trans girl before then all transition back. This year might be my only chance

[–]Fonched 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A common argument for regret rates being so low is the idea that access to gender care is difficult and therefore only the most committed will undertake it. What do you guys think of that?