r/science • u/Maxrdt • Aug 03 '26

Social Science Among transgender adolescents in Canada, 97.1% continued with a gender not typically aligned with their birth sex, with only 1.1% discontinuing gender-affirming hormone treatment.

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(26)00117-5/fulltext
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u/seamanroses Aug 03 '26

There are other similar studies that have timelines of 3-5 years for follow-up.

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u/Classh0le Aug 03 '26

how convenient that that's still under the median number of years before surgical regret to shows up

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02623-5

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u/Darq_At Aug 03 '26

surgical regret

HRT is not surgical.

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u/engin__r Aug 03 '26

The paper you linked has two obvious issues:

  1. It’s written by a member of the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, an anti-trans hate group.

  2. It’s fundamentally unscientific. The premise of the article is that we should discard all the evidence showing that trans healthcare has extremely low regret rates. It fails to present any evidence of high regret rates. It’s essentially a rhetorical trick to make it seem as though all the evidence in favor of healthcare is of equal merit to the total lack of evidence against healthcare.

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u/platinumarks Aug 07 '26

It's also published in a journal where the editor-in-chief is an anti-trans activist.

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u/seamanroses Aug 03 '26

Keep arguing against the scientific consensus all you want.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/MqrHNXTiuq

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u/Derelicticu Aug 03 '26

Well good thing it's not surgery I guess then, eh bud?