People who underwent gender-affirming chest reconstruction surgeries as adults have virtually no regrets years later and overwhelmingly high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the procedure, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery. The results were so clear, in fact, that the study authors were unable to perform the complex statistical analyses they had planned due to the striking uniformity in the survey responses.
Overall, this study on adults adds to a limited, but growing body of data suggesting that gender-affirming care is “essential” and potentially life-saving care that comes with significant benefits for people who are transgender and gender diverse. Collectively, this is why major medical organizations—including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and the Endocrine Society—advocate for protecting access to evidence-based gender-affirming care, which is a broad, sometimes misconstrued, term.
The comment section over at the other site is pretty gross to be honest.
- People scoffing at the low N, as if this wasn’t just another in a long line of data points.
- People scoffing at the 41% non-respondant rate, as if a 59% response rate isn’t fantastic. Especially considering that some of the people being contacted had the procedure done over a decade ago.
- Misinterpreting the exclusion of discordant results as exclusion of regretful results.
- People suggesting selection bias, when the study attempted to contact literally every patient who had the procedure over a 30 year period, was over 18 and spoke English.
- People just generally humming-and-hawwing and pondering vast narratives about what might have occurred!
It’s literally just people finding ANY reason to doubt, and getting slammed with upvotes.
It’s great to have additional studies confirming this! But this is also what the trans community has been saying for years. Please just listen to us when it comes to our own bodies 🥲
But isn’t this study exactly about asking trans folks how they feel about their top surgery? Not doing a study however would be ignoring the ones who didn’t feel satisfied with their surgery, and now those voices are included as well. They’re in the minority as expected, but at least now we have some sort of statistical validation for it as well
This is hardly the first study to look at satisfaction with gender confirmation surgery results.
I was more referring to the common knowledge among the trans community that already knew this information prior to any studies. If you’re trans and in the community this is a “well no shit” kind of study. We’ve been telling it to cis people for years but the refusal to listen to that was palpable. That’s why I said it’s great to have additional studies to point to if they don’t want to listen to the trans community themselves, they can maybe listen to this study.
Even if it seems to be common sense to those inside the community, there is something to be said about getting actual data on the subject so that those outside the community at least have a touchstone for the reality those on the inside experience, because propagandists are working very hard to muddy the waters on this point and points like this one in particular. It might be a “no shit Sherlock” moment to you, but to people like my Fox News watching extended family, this study is something that contradicts their current mental model of the situation, and something that I am glad I have in my quiver when they start talking about the subject to me.
Another bit of evidence for the pretty significant existing pile of evidence!
I’m glad Ars seems to have walked back its transphobia after the absolute shit-show that was its article about twitter screening a self identified fascist’s transphobic screed that somehow came down on the side of the fascist.
