People Who Got Hormone Therapy as Teenagers End Up With a Lower Regret Rate Years Later Than Knee Replacement Surgery, Research Finds

One of the most pernicious lines of attacks used to denigrate transgender people has been “transition regret” — the notion that a significant number of patients who undergo gender affirming treatment will go on to feel badly about the process. But new research finds that hormone therapy, one of the most common treatments in trans medicine, has a phenomenally low rate of regret — lower, in fact, than common procedures like knee replacement surgery. According to the study, published in JAMA Pediatrics and reported by the Washington Post, the vast…

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