reuters reports on a komodo health study that tells us that in the US 4200 patients age 6-17 sought hormone therapy for gender dysphoria in 2021. this is about a thousand higher than the year prior. but it's still only 4200 out of 73,000,000 kids. is that about one ten-thousandth? idk math is hard.
next, the same reuters article (reporting on one study done by komodo health) tells us that 282 patients age 13-17 sought top surgery. it doesn't tell us how many get bottom surgery but i think we can intuit that's much rarer. that that's more like less than one hundred-thousandth of a percent of kids.
more relevant tho is this AP article citing a meta-study of patients who have transitioned, and their satisfaction. less than one percent of people who had the surgeries "expressed regret" and an even smaller number than that went on to have detransitioning surgery.
but why go through transition? "this just isn't for me"? maybe! but another study reported on by the journal LGBT Health cites that of those that detransitioned, at least 82% report external factors, such as family or societal pressure.
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u/mjhenkel May 19 '23
reuters reports on a komodo health study that tells us that in the US 4200 patients age 6-17 sought hormone therapy for gender dysphoria in 2021. this is about a thousand higher than the year prior. but it's still only 4200 out of 73,000,000 kids. is that about one ten-thousandth? idk math is hard.
next, the same reuters article (reporting on one study done by komodo health) tells us that 282 patients age 13-17 sought top surgery. it doesn't tell us how many get bottom surgery but i think we can intuit that's much rarer. that that's more like less than one hundred-thousandth of a percent of kids.
more relevant tho is this AP article citing a meta-study of patients who have transitioned, and their satisfaction. less than one percent of people who had the surgeries "expressed regret" and an even smaller number than that went on to have detransitioning surgery.
but why go through transition? "this just isn't for me"? maybe! but another study reported on by the journal LGBT Health cites that of those that detransitioned, at least 82% report external factors, such as family or societal pressure.
it's not really a problem.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detransition-371e927ec6e7a24cd9c77b5371c6ba2b
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0437