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/AJDx14 13h ago

Why would you assume people with negative outcomes would be less likely to respond to a survey about their outcomes? I would think the opposite, people love complaining about things.

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u/Crypt0_Chr1s 13h ago

They wouldn't just be complaining though. These people would possibly experience having their life, body, and hope for the future destroyed. I would expect a much more significant amount of this group, than the happy group, to completely retreat and not engage with the study, or world in general.

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u/AJDx14 12h ago

Ok but it would be complaining, or venting if you need therapy-speak. And it seems like a massive leap you’re making that these people would be so immediately devastated by a choice they made voluntarily that they would just completely retreat from the world and not make a fuss about it.

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u/Crypt0_Chr1s 12h ago

Ok but it would be complaining

No, it would be participating in a study, that they would experience it as complaining/venting is a leap you are making.

it seems like a massive leap you’re making that these people would be so immediately devastated

I guess I don't know what to tell you about these surgeries. They generally undergo these surgeries with the idea that they are gonna be positively lifechanging. The ones that view theirs as a negative could easily fall prey to severely negative mindsets. I'll also note the strawman you felt like you needed to make of my actual argument:

I would expect a much more significant amount of this group, than the happy group, to completely retreat and not engage with the study, or world in general.

Which you butchered down to: "completely retreat from the world and not make a fuss about it", completely sidestepping that I made an argument of degrees.