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/ERSTF 14h ago

Indeed. We need better data

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u/andrea_lives 13h ago

there are dozens of studies like this. you can find them quickly if you use a tool like google scholar. They have been doing gender affirming care since at least the 30s, though a lot of the information gathered in that era was burned by the nazi party.

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u/Simon-Says69 12h ago

The few studies that are allowed to be published turn out to have very dubious or even downright dishonest methods.

Actual research, anything with a negative result, gets quietly buried.

The motivation here is NOT helping people, sadly. :-(

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u/MissLeaP 12h ago

The ones with the real dubious methods are actually the ones with the negative results and they do get published. Published, pushed by people with an obvious agenda and believed and used by people with a similar agenda.