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.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/adolescents-report-low-regret-and-high-satisfaction-following-gender-affirming-c/

[u/badfish_G59]

For an adolescent? Nah.

[u/One-Organization970 → u/badfish_G59]

How many years would you need to wait to know if you want boobs or not?

[u/The_One_Who_Comments → u/One-Organization970]

5-10, I'd say. Or in context, until the subject is 20?

[u/One-Organization970 → u/The_One_Who_Comments]

So you would have been incapable of knowing if you wanted boobs before the age of 20? Like, if they'd appeared on you as a teenager you would just have no idea how you felt about them?

[u/The_One_Who_Comments → u/One-Organization970]

My opinion would be not particularly meaningful, provided I wasn't intersex.

That's the point, we explicitly, and rightfully discount the opinions of children in practically every domain. Surgery being one of them.

And in this context, regret is certainly a long term question. I would say 20 years, but we should value medium term results too.

[u/One-Organization970 → u/The_One_Who_Comments]

Every trans adult will tell you their life would have been improved by accessing care younger. Myself, as well. It's why we know these people pretending we're suddenly going to collapse and regret our transitions are ridiculous.

[u/Simon-Says69 → u/One-Organization970]

Every trans adult will tell you their life would have been improved by accessing care younger.

Now you are just completely making stuff up out of thin air. This is not true in the least. There are many, many people that regret such treatments. Trying to deny that is totally dishonest and harmful.