Turns out this isn’t about caring for kids at all! Who would have thought conservatives would do such a thing?!
Studies like this strengthen the academic consensus that wholesale “detransition”—where a person who medically transitions stops identifying as trans and regrets receiving gender-affirming care—is rare. For those who do stop taking hormones or regret gender-affirming care, studies find the reasons cited are more likely to be financial, such as a lack of insurance; legal, with patients losing their care when states restricted it; or, most of all, a response to transphobia and violence upon coming out.
So not even an internal justification for their regret. It’s all from external forces by the sounds of it. So it’s quite possible that if they had a support network, they would not have regretted it.
That is the story the majority of the time. I’ve known a few detranaitioners that re transitioned as soon as they had a stable income and support network.
Breaking news: People know what they want to do with their own bodies better than other people do
It’s sad really. So many eggs (pre transition) feel fear about regret, and yet the regret rates are so low.
I remember spending well over a year being petrified of regretting it. Years down the line? Couldnt have been a better choice. I feel so grounded in my identity now, going back to being a guy would be like being forced into undersized shoes.
To be fair, I imagine the people least confident to transition would also be the ones most susceptible to transition regret.
The fact that they had to do a huge study to refute an obvious whopper of a lie told by some asshole and repeated by fools is a perfect example of a larger truth. It’s easier to spread bullshit than to clean it up. And the real kicker is that this won’t change anyone’s mind.
Brandolini’s Law.
I thought it mostly happened when society bullies you so much that you decide its easier to hide who you are again instead
My wife has a friend who went fully FtM, then lost weight because of the testosterone and realized that they just hated their body because they were fat, not because they were trans.
So it does happen.
I mean it does happen. But it’s still far less common than just getting bullied out of transitioning.
One of the earliest stories I ever read of transition was a mtf who was overweight, depressed, etc, classic neck beard. Transitioned, started taking care of their body, lost weight, made friends, went back to school, stopped presenting femme, quit the hormones, quietly detransitioned.
No regrets, no irreversible side effects. it was what they needed at the time.
Of course one of the talking points I hear about is that the younger they start the more likely people are to regret it. I kind of doubted that already, but its good to get real data on it.
They just like to undermine peoples rights and autonomy. Teenagers are perfectly capable of such decisions yet reducing them to children is all we do.
Even if that’s the case I think it would need some additional studying or math to account for survivorship bias. Many trans youth never get the chance to live long enough for us to ask them about early transition
The actual article:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/43002408/The doi is not yet active because the JAMA Paediatric hasn’t published the article yet. Here it is nonetheless:
10.1001/jamapediatrics.2026.5185It’s beyond stupid that this study was even done.
Let’s play devil’s advocate and say it’s 90% regret.
So fucking what? Nobody’s trying to prevent people from taking out LOANS they’ll regret. Or making CAREER decisions they’ll regret. Or having CHILDREN they’ll regret. Freedom means letting people make their decisions and live with the results. That’s the whole deal.
These assholes are only concerned about the actions they want to police - they don’t give a SHIT about the well-being of the people taking those actions, and they will find any excuse.
Harm reduction is a thing.
If the study had shown a high amount of regret, it would indicate that a more restrictive screening process should be put in place, with other avenues being explored first.Frankly I want no screening. People should be able to alter their own sex characteristics at will. I believe in a fundamental freedom of sex. Your body is your own, and the government has no rightful say in what you do with it.
On the other hand, this mindset could easily lead to misclassifying necessary gender-affirming surgery as elective. I think it’s worth acknowledging that some medical decisions are more necessary than others.
Wish the ass holes that voted against gender affirming care trusted data… Instead of being ass holes
At least there is data though, so maybe a push in the right direction can happen easier.
I wonder if studies count the cessation of HRT or transitioning from binary to nonbinary as detransitioning even tho it isn’t
I don’t know anything about this topic, but the study is linked in the article and open-access, so you can check that yourself: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2856355
