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Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Gender-Affirming Mastectomy (jamanetwork.com)

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This cross-sectional study uses validated instruments to assess long-term decisional regret and satisfaction following gender-affirming mastectomy.

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[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Moreover, they say that the media talk about 1% (or less, realistically), but here there are barely 139 respondents.

Disclaimer: Just highlighting a fact for those who fall for confirmation bias, trans rights and blah blah blah to avoid harassment.

[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To add to that, there might sadly be a survivor bias : some people who regretted were not able to give their opinion

[–] Bluskale@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That’s a good point too. Come to think of it, you could also have had missing numbers from the other direction too: people who wouldn’t have regretted it but didn’t have the opportunity to give their opinion.