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The problem with sex reassignment surgeries, is that they do not work: ”Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had und
by petra 6y ago
The problem with sex reassignment surgeries, is that they do not work:
”Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to twenty times that of comparable peers."
Dr. Paul McHugh, the university distinguished service professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/ https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/
- whyamibothering 6y agoThat's not a study. That's an anecdote. They actually have a lower rate of patient regret than LASIK. This is a study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-014-0300-8 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-014-0300-8 n = 767. Over fifty years. Lower rate of patient regret than LASIK. Further, sex reassignment surgeries aren't the only treatment, and they aren't even one relevant to the article.
- bobmichael 6y agoWhat other treatments are there? Do you have a good resource if I'd like to learn more?
- whyamibothering 6y agoNon-surgical medical treatment is generally the most fruitful. (SRS, or GCS, is a surgical procedure involving construction of genitalia, and up until very recently there weren't any decent options for it.) Unfortunately, therapy alone generally isn't shown to make suicide rates or gender dysphoria go away. Elsewhere in this thread I posted a link to a great talk that has the leading expert in transgender care go into extreme depth on methods of treatments for transgender patients. If you want a doctor's perspective, and one that has probably the most experience tied to it (he sees an incredible volume of transgender patients), I definitely recommend checking it out.
- dogma1138 6y agoYou should read the study, their methodology for regret was only to account for people that requested a reversal: "The regret rate is defined as the number of sex reassigned individuals at the time period when they did their first application that will later apply for reversal to the original sex" The study also did not account for suicides or being sanctioned in their regret rate.
- whyamibothering 6y agoI have, in fact, read the study; I'm doing my thesis in this area.
- danaris 6y agoEven if that were a rigorous study, not an anecdote, as the sibling commenter mentioned, you would have to compare the suicide rate of those who had undergone gender confirmation surgery with that among other trans people—including those who were still in the closet, which complicates the matter significantly.