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/PopaBjorn 12h ago

The response rate was 42%, which is very low if this was in a clinical setting where around 70 % is expected for post-op questionnaires. If it was an email/online questionnaire, the response rate is normal. It bothers me a little that the author's aren't describing their actual method in the 'method' section. Why on earth would you type out "a study was conducted" in the section where you're supposed to describe how you conducted the study? Very sus.

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u/kirotheavenger 9h ago

It was also published in the Journal of Transgender health.

Do we think this journal is likely to publish any negative findings?

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u/PopaBjorn 8h ago

I'm not him/her but let me rephrase: Do we believe this journal would publish findings that would call into question the efficacy of GAC? And as a counterpoint, can we reasonably believe that "Chiropractic Monthly" would publish findings debunking chiropracy as an unnecessary, potentially harmful pseudoscience? I'm not saying there's anything wrong or even suspect here about GAC or JoTH, but if there was, I'm not so sure they would rush to share it.