And where are the studies regarding post transition surgery regret?
I would caution you to be very careful in forming your opinion from modern research in the field. The institution has undeniably accumulated a very strong bias with the emergent result that published results (and research direction) tends to be very one sided.
But looking in from the outside, I absolutely cannot take seriously an establishment which unironically recommends permanent genital mutilation which results in a potential lifetime of pain from daily dilation of an artificial orifice which is little more than a glorified wound, which is neither self cleaning nor self lubricating. What is even the point? Surely believing that this is in any way equivalent to a vagina is a medically encouraged delusion, no?
I do not mean to be insensitive to your plight. And I cannot deny that you personally have, at least in the short term, benefited from your treatment, and that's wonderful.
But we have reached a point now where young adults are being lead by doctors they trust to make irreversible changes which may permanently worsen their quality of life, in a way that seemingly contradicts the standard approach to any other brain disorder (and, yes, it fits that definition, regardless of whether the fad of the day is to pretend it doesn't). I'd have been less explicit in my comments if I didn't feel that dancing around this subject with kids gloves is the reason that we're slipping into this mess.
I would caution you to be very careful in forming your opinion from modern research in the field. The institution has undeniably accumulated a very strong bias with the emergent result that published results (and research direction) tends to be very one sided.
But looking in from the outside, I absolutely cannot take seriously an establishment which unironically recommends permanent genital mutilation which results in a potential lifetime of pain from daily dilation of an artificial orifice which is little more than a glorified wound, which is neither self cleaning nor self lubricating. What is even the point? Surely believing that this is in any way equivalent to a vagina is a medically encouraged delusion, no?
I do not mean to be insensitive to your plight. And I cannot deny that you personally have, at least in the short term, benefited from your treatment, and that's wonderful. But we have reached a point now where young adults are being lead by doctors they trust to make irreversible changes which may permanently worsen their quality of life, in a way that seemingly contradicts the standard approach to any other brain disorder (and, yes, it fits that definition, regardless of whether the fad of the day is to pretend it doesn't). I'd have been less explicit in my comments if I didn't feel that dancing around this subject with kids gloves is the reason that we're slipping into this mess.