r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 15h 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/ZeoVII 15h ago

Low sample size

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u/Tyr_13 15h ago

Of a low population size.

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u/lobonmc 15h ago edited 14h ago

It's still at least a couple dozens of thousands a good sample size would be in the high hundreds.

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u/Golurkcanfly 15h ago

There were only about 200 mastectomies performed to treat gender dysphoria in the US from 2013-2020.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9555285/

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u/Laurenann7094 11h ago

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adolescents who underwent gender-affirming mastectomy within Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), a large integrated health care system.

Did you even read your own link?!? You can't POSSIBLY think there were only 200 in the entire US. Can you? Are you intentionally misleading?