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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by yanhangyhy on Thursday October 30, 2025 @10:15PM (#45767640)
I’m not, but I know quite a few people who are. I’ve seen too many people regret it after surgery. Sometimes I even think the evaluation requirements aren’t strict enough.
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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by seethedeaduu on Friday October 31, 2025 @07:45AM (#45770955)
People that you know personally or propaganda that you saw online? And what perventage of these cases was due to bad surgical outcomes? (Potentially due to surgeon incompetence)

Because I really doubt that you personally know many trans people in this category.

> Sometimes I even think the evaluation requirements aren’t strict enough.

Leave it to trans people to judge that.

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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by voidUpdate on Monday November 03, 2025 @05:10AM (#45797511)
According to the NIH, the regret rates for transgender surgeries are somewhere in the region of 1%. Regret rates for knee surgery are somewhere in the region of 10%. The evaluation requirements for knee surgeries should be way higher then, surely, if even 1% is too much?
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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by ainti on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:09AM (#45811863)
It's worth reading this critique of the paper that 1% figure comes from. Very unlikely that it is an accurate representation of regret:

https://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/2021/11000/letter_to...

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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by seethedeaduu on Thursday November 06, 2025 @02:18AM (#45832401)
I asked you a question before but you forgot to respond :)
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