My friend's parent detransitioned because they were not accepted socially in their preferred gender and found it less painful to just live with the dysphoria than to bear the brunt of the hatred that came their way. By my understanding, the vast majority of people who do detransition do so because they did not find acceptance in society or socially.
Unreal that the biggest cure for trans regret is to stop giving them things to regret.
It can indeed be recycled after it degrades into copper, but it will take far longer that you claim for it to do so.
The half life of nickel-63 is 101.2 years which means that after 101.2 years approximately half of the core will have degraded to copper, then after 101.2 more years approximately half of the remaining will have degraded, leaving approximately a quarter, then after 101.2 more years there'll be approximately one eighth, and so on. This is how radioactive decay works.
The battery, they claim, functions for 50 years or so, which is probably because after 50 years the radioactive decay has slowed by over 25% (can't be bothered to work out the actual amount but its at least this much). This 50 years doesn't mean that all the radioactive material has decayed, just that a portion of it significant enough to render the battery dead/less effective/etc.
(Image description: A woman's hand holds a brown gift wrapped package with a picture attached by twine. The picture is of Boromir in the Lord of the Rings, saying "It is a gift".)
[alt text: a woman with long hair dyed in the colours of the transgender flag sips from a teacup with "gay" printed on the side. The top text reads "Oh you're transbian?" While the bottomt text reads "prove it (I'm a visual learner BTW)"]
Since learning the reason the song was written and the meaning behind it, Gotye - Bronte makes me sob like a baby