Despite the cries of the gender clinics, there are people who regret gender affirmation treatments. Puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries can leave them sterile or even completely lacking sexual function as adults.
Ollie and Jay
The the same week in August 2022, Australian newspapers featured two stories of detransitioners.
Ollie Davies has been left infertile from oestrogen treatment – Weekend Australianhttps://archive.ph/jV1xO
Jay Langadinos is suing her psychiatrist for professional negligence. He saw her for 3 visits from age 19 to 22, and green-lit double mastectomy and hysterectomy surgeries. https://www.smh.com.au/national/absolutely-devastating-woman-sues-psychiatrist-over-gender-transition-20220823-p5bbyr.html
Detransitioners Don’t Return to The Pro-Trans Doctors
Study by Lisa Littman (who uncovered Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) found that detransitioners do not return to their ‘affirming’ medical doctors – reported on in the Australian.
A new survey by Dr Lisa Littman, has revealed that patients who regret their transition failed to inform their specialists that they had detransitioned. Of 100 people surveyed, “Only 24 per cent of the group — which included 66 Americans, nine British, nine Canadians and four Australians — told their clinicians they had detransitioned.”
Reported by Binary Australia
What Gender Clinics Say
ACON’s TransHub is a pro-trans website that downplays the detransition phenomenon. They try to say that regret is almost zero, that it is negligible compared to plastic surgeries, and that it is due to lack of community support.
Recent studies have found that not a single participant expressed regret about medical gender affirmation1. Another study found that less than 2% of trans people had major regrets regarding the changes they had undergone, which may seem high, until you compare it to 65%, the number of cis people who experienced regrets about the plastic surgery they’d undertaken2.
TransHub
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An older study found that the risk factors for regret often involved a “lack of support from the patient’s family, poor social support, late-life transitions, severe psychopathology, unfavorable physical appearance, and poor surgical result3.”
Further Reading
r/detrans subreddit demographic survey
Detransition: Before and After by Max Robinson
