• GojuRyu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This argument works even better for other surgeries. Gender affirming surgery and HRT has one of the lowest rates of regret of any procedure out there. So this argument works better for requiring knee surgery to be signed off by a therapist or doctor first after a few months of conversations to ensure it’s the right thing. There is a gigantic amount of people regretting their knee surgeries after all compared to the regret of transitioning.

    On a side note, most people who detransition do so due to not being able to afford HRT or family or societal pressure to do so, not because they find out they weren’t trans. Of course it happens but it’s much rarer than the total numbers of detransitions could lead one to believe.