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I mean, you could study the same thing about a marriage ending in divorce, so long as you exclude happily married people from the sample set. Or literally anything where some subset of people will have a negative outcome. Which is everything.
Is this going to be a new Smithsonian exhibit?
I remember seeing a study once which showed regret about gender transition at about 1%. I thought that was pretty high. Then I saw that surgery for cancer had a regret rate that was much higher. Memory is fuzzy but maybe 6%. There are always negative outcomes for surgery. If you're happily living as a trans person who hasn't had bottom surgery, and when you do, you end up damaging a nerve, which means constant pain, you might regret the surgery. That doesn't change that you're trans, nor does it change your gender. Many people with negative outcomes or side effects still don't regret it, as they would for other surgeries.
People are complex animals. I agreed that this is likely to be seen in the future as a state sanctioned invasion of people medical rights and sense of identity that in years to come will look petty and antiquated. I wonder how they made the study possible without using banned words like gender, trans etc. Could it be that even they found their ridiculous censorship of scientific knowledge was stupid and unhelpful.
Edited: more accurate figures from other user
There is this study from Louisiana - https://ldh.la.gov/assets/docs/LegisReports/HR158_2022RS_LDHReport.pdf
Meta-analyses almost always put the figure at closer to 1%. It is one of the least regretted things that humans do. To provide a comparison figure, education regret tends to hover closer to 40% and parenting at 10%.
Cool I'll edit. My point was correct, just the figure was wrong by a lot! Likely the difference to cancer surgery was also different. Maybe the cancer surgery regret was 6%.