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Exclusive: Trump White House directs NIH to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

This is probably a good thing to study, but somehow I don't expect this administration to use anything they discover to improve the way we handle everything around the transitioning. I get the distinct impression that they will use the existence of the study to make things worse for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It has already extensively been studied and it has always shown that it has the least amount of regret of any surgeries, and that transgender people regret transitioning at rates often literal magnitudes lower than just about anything else people regret in their lives - children, tattoos, marriage, education, romance, leisure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

If there was a good-faith desire to study it again, I couldn't see any reason not to.

But we aren't gonna get that effort from this government.