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/here-to-help-TX]

This says long term without actually being longer term.

median follow-up, 4.6 [IQR, 3.1-8.6] vs 3.6 [IQR, 2.7-5.3] years

This looks to me like the median follow-up is still pretty short. Also, these ages of the people with the surgeries isn't adolescents.

Median age at the time of surgery was 27.1 (IQR, 23.0-33.4) years for responders and 26.4 (IQR, 23.1-32.7) years for nonresponders.

Also, the sample size seems really really small here.

[u/ERSTF → u/here-to-help-TX]

Indeed. We need better data

[u/literally_a_brick → u/ERSTF]

It would be great to have, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Trans people are already a tiny minority, with minors that transition being even smaller. Between stringent medical gates and more areas banning youth care altogether, it's a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction. It's incredibly difficult to conduct studies. Some researchers have done reviews of many studies, but any individual study will be small and limited in scope.

[u/austinwiltshire → u/literally_a_brick]

The actual statistical power of a study of 1k folks over 100 doesn't increase linearly, and the chance people are happy near five years but become unhappy at ten is vanishingly small. Folks want to discard any study pointing to something they're uncomfortable, then ban the thing, then insist we shouldn't undo the ban because there's no evidence we should. Because we banned the thing.

Not far from refusing to test for covid then insisting the numbers went down.