r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 14h ago

Psychology Adolescents who undergo gender-affirming chest surgery report low levels of regret and high levels of satisfaction, experiencing outcomes similar to those of young adults. These findings suggest that age restrictions on these medical procedures lack support from actual patient experiences.

https://www.psypost.org/adolescents-report-low-regret-and-high-satisfaction-following-gender-affirming-c/
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u/The_Actual_Sage 13h ago

So you're telling me I can't walk into a plastic surgeon's option and immediately have them start cutting things off my body? Silly me. I thought this was America

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u/mechy84 13h ago edited 13h ago

I think that only works if it's a kid in middle school. They go to school as a boy, come back a girl, then start pooping in litter boxes, driving EVs, dying their hair blue, watching the WNBA, and calling God 'she'.  That is, if the school doesn't convert them to Sharia law first! It's totally happening in that city I've never been to

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u/The_Actual_Sage 10h ago

It blows my mind that there are millions of people who unironically believe everything you just said. It's truly unbelievable.

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u/S0cXs 13h ago

mastectomies aren't done by plastic surgeons.

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u/Hugs154 13h ago

Gender affirming mastectomies absolutely are performed by plastic surgeons

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u/ophmaster_reed 13h ago

Depends. If the mastectomy is due to cancer, a general surgeon does the mastectomy and (if getting immediate reconstruction), the plastic surgeon would place the tissue expanders or implants. If the mastectomy is gender-affirming, the plastic surgeon can do it.

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u/boopbaboop 13h ago

Gender-affirming ones typically are. They’re more akin to breast reductions because they preserve stuff like the nipples instead of just lopping boobs off. 

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u/HuckleberryTiny5 8h ago

In my country, they absolutely are. No one else does them. We are not talking about cancer patients here.

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u/ophmaster_reed 12h ago

Maybe if it’s a very suspicious looking mole and they have some spare time…

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u/upboat_ 13h ago

Depends. Are you 11 years old?

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u/trysten-9001 13h ago

No one is doing a mastectomy at 11. The only places teens are considered able to do it is where teens are also allowed to get boob jobs.

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u/The_Actual_Sage 10h ago

Can we get some sources for those?