[ SECRET POST #6006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6006 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I see where the problem is here! You think "what I'm seeing" translates to what ACTUALLY happens in the real world. Common mistake. It's why we have science!

See, what you actually need to do is survey a LOT of people from a non biased source! So what you would do instead is get agreement (this is important because informed consent is important!) AT A HOSPITAL OR CLINIC that performs this type of treatment. You need to get agreement BEFORE any medical procedure is done. This stops bias. So, once you get agreement, you follow as large a sample size as possible. Preferably in the thousands, which other studies have done and I'm pretty sure YOU personally have not. And you see of those people: who doesn't go through with the medical procedure, and of those who do, what is the success rate? And the success rate is measured by life improvement, regret, lingering pain, any side effects that weren't expected, etc etc.

Once you do that, you get a true number of how well the treatment works. In the case of current modern gender affirming treatment for trans people, the success rate is over 98%. Because, you know, scientists don't ONLY survey people who feel regret.

Though, hopefully a study is being done for those people so we can figure out the causes of regret, which will help us figure out a) better treatment techniques and b) better screening techniques for people who didn't actually need that kind of treatment.

Hope that helps! If you still feel confused, or think that your experience MUST be the norm because they happened to you, I would suggest a remedial science course.

[(Anonymous)]

What I'm seeing draws on both the scientific articles I've already read, and what I literally observe when I'm not reading studies. And yes, I happen to expect both of these to belong to the real world, where we hopefully both live.

AFAIK, the alleged success rate of 98% comes from studies done on adults who transitioned after lengthy medical consultations and psychological assessments in Europe. The less differential diagnosis is valued and applied, and the more pre-screening has become a dirty world, the less likely it is that those conclusions are relevant to the experience of American minors being recommended for trans-related puberty blockers and hormones.

But there are studies that are trying to address these questions. For brevity's sake, I will only link to an overview: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02626-2

One of the more interesting conclusions I see being drawn, in detrans spaces as well as the blunter research papers, is that mental health problems and neurodevelopmental comorbitidies are strongly implicated in transition regret. People find themselves wondering why their doctors didn't recognize the role that autism, ADD, bipolar disorder, OCD, and similar played in creating their dysphoria.

Also, I suspect the sentence "when obtaining informed consent, clinicians should ensure patients understand that medical transition is not an antidote for the enduring consequences of childhood adversity, co-existing physical or psychological disadvantages, or unfortunate family circumstances" is going to stay with me for a while.