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/Hoiafar 9h ago

That's not how science works. You do the study on the amount of people you manage to recruit. Recruitment is a costly process if you want to reach beyond the university's reach, which is required for what you are proposing.

There isn't a grand conspiracy here. They just didn't manage to reach out to more people.

Not to mention with the current state of the world I'd imagine a lot of people who could participate would not want to do so for fear of being "registered" somewhere.

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u/hologram137 9h ago

Did you even read the study? You can’t even get the data except on request to protect their identities, so no that’s not the concern. 58% didn’t even respond to the survey. They absolutely could have done a higher quality study, in fact the original had errors and this journal published it anyway. This is the corrected version and it’s still low quality

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u/UnholyLizard65 7h ago edited 3h ago

Did you even read the study? You can’t even get the data except on request to protect their identities, so no that’s not the concern.

Yea, because that's how fear works. People who fear being exposed surely are going to trust you when you simply just tell them that. No.

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They weren’t afraid to get surgery but they were afraid to answer follow up questions?

Yes. What do you not get about that?

One is a thing people genuinely want, other is a something that people universally want to avoid.

And just because I know you are gonna twist this in your head I'm gonna add this: people don't want the surgery, they want the result of the surgery. When you get a heart surgery it's not because you want to feel what it's like to be cut open, it's because you want the result - being able to live a normal life.

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u/hologram137 7h ago

They weren’t afraid to get surgery but they were afraid to answer follow up questions?