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Margot Ohlfearnain's avatar

Not surprising; more evidence that the need to “transition” is so often the result of underlying emotional/mental distress.

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Bernard Lane's avatar

Yes, it's consistent with the stories of individual detransitioners who have gone public over the last 2-3 years.

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Margot Ohlfearnain's avatar

Thank you for covering this very important update.

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Vincent Keane's avatar

A paper in the Journal of ‘Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism’ of October 2022 titled ‘Detransition among Transgender and Gender-Diverse People’ referenced the rates of detransition in a study sample of 627 transmasculine and 325 transfeminine individuals. Among those that underwent gonadectomy, rates of regret were 0.6% for transwomen and 0.3% for transmen with an average time to regret of 10.8 years.

The paper referenced in this edition of GCN indicated that only 27% of the de-transitioners informed their former gender clinic that they had done so, meaning that the remaining 73% had been lost to follow-up.

It is probably fair to assume that regret and detransition are greatly underestimated in much of the relevant literature and, in truth transitioning might not be such a good idea, in the case of children a rather bad one.

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Bernard Lane's avatar

Those post-surgery regret rates under 1% from the Dutch long-term regret study deal with a very different population than the current teenage girls. And as you say, loss to follow-up is a big issue in most of the low regret studies cited by gender clinicians. I think loss to follow up in the Dutch study was about 30 %.

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Guy van Hazel's avatar

I am amazed that it was published. Credit to the editor of the Journal.

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Sufeitzy's avatar

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dd's avatar

Bernard, thought you might be interested in this brief video which I found via "Erin in the Morning"....

"Ohio Hospital Systems Testify Against Trans Ban"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFoT7XruKyo

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