The the oft quoted claim that ‘regret following gender transition was less than 1%’ was the claimed finding in a 2021 paper titled: ‘Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence’
The paper which covered 27 studies and 9,700 subjects did not report a single universal mean-time since transition but did note that the study cohort had undergone ‘transition’ from 0.8 year to 9 year earlier’ and that ‘many of the studies were limited by short follow-up periods (1-2 years)’.
. . . Clearly, the ‘less than 1% regret rate’ claim is unscientific and a clinician advising a patient or parent of this statistic would be misleading them.
I list a random selection of multiple quotes from the obvious regret cited in studies from the poor souls who have defied the 1% regret rate:
• Suicide risk remained elevated throughout all transition stages, with little long-term improvement
• Hormone-treated individuals experienced persistently increased mortality risk over decades.
• Mortality 51% higher than the general population, linked to suicide, cardiovascular issues, and substance abuse.
• Lower scores across general health, physical function, and social role domains.
• Surgical patients had significantly elevated rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and substance use disorders
I tried to find some reference as to the qualifications and/or expertise of Teddy Cook who is referenced in this GCN article. This was pretty much what I found:
(he/him) has over 15 years' experience in community health and non-government sectors. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kirby Institute UNSW in Australia and a queer man of trans experience.
It's the legal profession that will ultimately curtail this genital disfigurement cult. Once lawyers start winning cases on behalf of individuals claiming harm due to practitioners failure to properly inform these patients of the actual science and the known negative outcomes, the judgements will force medical insurers to stop insuring these doctors and clinics. A two-million dollar judgement was recently handed down in the US, and I'm sure law firms across the country are taking notice.
Yes, let’s hope that future successful class actions better inform our legislators ( which will ,unfortunately, have to be State based legal jurisdictions) to act , both to protect vulnerable children and also to remove the threat to dissenting clinicians from the current punitive “ anti conversion “ legislations across various State and Territory legal jurisdictions. The other party left out of course are the many parents who currently just suffer in silence
There were many merits to a strong public health response to CoVID, and we can be understanding about the general fog of confusion that existed over that time.
But it was a shame GPs were ordered into a rigid command and control role and I think this has impacted on the ease of a small group to silence the majority. Doctors were sanctioned or derided over COVID for any perspective that went against the norms. They probably still have this fear about speaking out.
All it takes is for people to return to the knowledge of their disciplines. We understood very well already child development and effects like peer contagion. There is a lot of research how we are effected by our environment etc. Why have we culturally constructed the idea of people needing powerful medicines to resolve psychological incongruence when we know psychological incongruence is a feature of adolescence, is likely to be exacerbated by the media environment and general uncertainty in current life, and used to resolve without the need of such treatments?
Science is not ideology.
THE 1% CLAIMED TRANSITION REGRET RATE IS NONSENSE
The the oft quoted claim that ‘regret following gender transition was less than 1%’ was the claimed finding in a 2021 paper titled: ‘Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence’
The paper which covered 27 studies and 9,700 subjects did not report a single universal mean-time since transition but did note that the study cohort had undergone ‘transition’ from 0.8 year to 9 year earlier’ and that ‘many of the studies were limited by short follow-up periods (1-2 years)’.
. . . Clearly, the ‘less than 1% regret rate’ claim is unscientific and a clinician advising a patient or parent of this statistic would be misleading them.
I list a random selection of multiple quotes from the obvious regret cited in studies from the poor souls who have defied the 1% regret rate:
• Suicide risk remained elevated throughout all transition stages, with little long-term improvement
• Hormone-treated individuals experienced persistently increased mortality risk over decades.
• Mortality 51% higher than the general population, linked to suicide, cardiovascular issues, and substance abuse.
• Lower scores across general health, physical function, and social role domains.
• Surgical patients had significantly elevated rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and substance use disorders
Another disgraceful act by the RACGP.
Totalitarian capture of GPs continues.
I tried to find some reference as to the qualifications and/or expertise of Teddy Cook who is referenced in this GCN article. This was pretty much what I found:
(he/him) has over 15 years' experience in community health and non-government sectors. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kirby Institute UNSW in Australia and a queer man of trans experience.
It's the legal profession that will ultimately curtail this genital disfigurement cult. Once lawyers start winning cases on behalf of individuals claiming harm due to practitioners failure to properly inform these patients of the actual science and the known negative outcomes, the judgements will force medical insurers to stop insuring these doctors and clinics. A two-million dollar judgement was recently handed down in the US, and I'm sure law firms across the country are taking notice.
Certainly true that the medical profession has been too slow to self correct.
Yes, let’s hope that future successful class actions better inform our legislators ( which will ,unfortunately, have to be State based legal jurisdictions) to act , both to protect vulnerable children and also to remove the threat to dissenting clinicians from the current punitive “ anti conversion “ legislations across various State and Territory legal jurisdictions. The other party left out of course are the many parents who currently just suffer in silence
There were many merits to a strong public health response to CoVID, and we can be understanding about the general fog of confusion that existed over that time.
But it was a shame GPs were ordered into a rigid command and control role and I think this has impacted on the ease of a small group to silence the majority. Doctors were sanctioned or derided over COVID for any perspective that went against the norms. They probably still have this fear about speaking out.
All it takes is for people to return to the knowledge of their disciplines. We understood very well already child development and effects like peer contagion. There is a lot of research how we are effected by our environment etc. Why have we culturally constructed the idea of people needing powerful medicines to resolve psychological incongruence when we know psychological incongruence is a feature of adolescence, is likely to be exacerbated by the media environment and general uncertainty in current life, and used to resolve without the need of such treatments?