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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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