The figures fly in the face of claims by anti-trans and right-wing pundits that gender-affirming healthcare should be restricted because of potential regret rates.
I wish we didn't need research like this, but we do. It's important that there is more data to support a thing that trans people... know, which is that there's a really low rate of regret and really high rates of satisfaction with gender-affirming care for young people.
The study's lead author, Kristina Olson, noted that "regret" can include "a wide range of things", adding: "It could have been to anything," including being placed on puberty blockers rather than hormones, while others worried about potential side effects.
A four per cent regret rate is exceptionally low for healthcare, compared with operations such as knee surgery, which comes in at 20 per cent, according to Barcelos.
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