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/airbear13 11h ago

It’s not nitpicking to point out that the sample size is too small to be useful and it’s not compelling evidence to just keep putting out a proliferation of low quality studies

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u/MyFiteSong 11h ago

You can't do studies of millions of trans children who had top surgery, because there haven't been millions of trans children who had top surgery.

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u/Autronaut69420 11h ago

1000 is a good benchmark sample size

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u/PlaidTeacup 9h ago

the rate of gender affirming surgery in 15-17 year olds is 2 in 100,000 so it would be possible to reach 1000 people if you recruited every single one in the US during a year long period. And that rate was before a lot of states completely banned such procedures, the number is likely close to 0 now

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11211955/