In my opinion this is a valuable step forward but was inadequate to assess for the problem at hand. Only 59% of patients who were surveyed responded which opens up to a significant bias and seems to be too few patients surveyed to detect the outcome in question. I agree that the vast majority are satisfied or do not have regrets, but it seems unrealistic that it would be 100% satisfaction. Who can claim 100% satisfaction for any kind of medical procedure?
I saw a series of studies once for HRT (not a surgery, but relevant to transgender research and major bodily changes) that said that 90% of patients reported either an improvement or at least no change in their quality of life after HRT compared to before. Of the 10% who reported a worse quality of life or stopped treatment, the majority of causes were due to external factors such as harassment/hate crimes or being disowned by friends and family. The least commonly reported cause was post HRT regret, and the vast majority of that 10% said that they would be restarting HRT as soon as they safely could.
Not only is that a huge success rate, but it also says something about the percentage of people who would respond to such a survey, as going "stealth" as it's referred to, can be a major component of transgender people's safety considerations. If people don't know your trans, you can't be assaulted for it. And considering the sexual assault rate for trans women in the US is 80%, they have reason to worry about that sort of thing. Also, a quick Google search tells me that the average response rate for medical surveys is 76% for in-person surveys, 65% for postal, and online surveys are 46% for website based and 51% for email surveys. So that 59% isn't too far outside the range as long as it isn't in-person surveys.
What about gender affirming care generally? We need a control group. Whom regrets getting plastic surgery?
Elon seems happy with his hair plugs.
why whom
Whom is gonna stop me?
Fuck yeah, linguistic punk!
The authors did note that they had to exclude survey results for 13 respondents because they puzzlingly rated maximal or nearly maximal levels of both satisfaction and regret. The authors speculated that these respondents may have misread the instructions and misunderstood that the scales were reverse scored for the two ratings.
lol exclude the data that doesn't match your hypothesis and you can probe anything.
How would you interpret the data of someone who said they both have extreme regret and exteeme satisfaction with a procedure?
I would too conclude that the survey was flawed.
To be honest, I could believe that a lot of surveys just discard results that can't process, for whatever reason.
Can confident conclusions be made from such surveys? Probably not.
"Study number 7592043 shows that gender affirming care is effective"
You lot:
"idk... just seems like there isn't enough data... just asking questions, etc etc."
Nope.
I do believe it't effective. I don't believe 0% regrets.
You can't include nonsensical data. The correct thing to do is note it in the paper, like they did.
Good news for the gender solutions industry
Is this the new right-wing line? Like the “abortion industry”? Gimme a fucking break.
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