It's always projection. "Accuse your enemies of what you are guilty of."

And even the rare case of transition regret, it's usually because 1. lack of peer group, 2. social condemnation and 3. your family now hates you.

Not because of the procedure, but because of the assholes around you. (This by one older Swedish study on the subject).

It's a literal miracle cure. Any sane doctor would jump for it.

Is "regret" here necessarily supposed to be interpreted as "would rather have died"? I have had cancer surgery, it was not necessarily life saving, it was more precautionary (as I understand it, I was quite young). And I have some regrets related to it, but not that surgery itself. I can imagine there are a lot of cases like that for other cancer treatments as well, "I should have gone another round of chemo instead", "another round of radiation". Which may mean higher risk of not making it, but may still not be the same as "I regret having my life saved by this necessary surgery".

I'm not saying this to cast doubt on the relevance for making the comparison to gender affirming surgery. I think the comparison is apt and relevant. For gender affirming surgery there are basically no equivalent to radiation or chemo alternatives to surgery (not that they necessarily are an alternative to surgery for cancer either. Surgery may absolutely be necessary for survival). Since gender affirming surgery does not have an "I should have done treatment X instead, hence I regret my surgery", maybe this explains the discrepency in the regret rates?

Not to mention the last statistic on regret rates I saw showed that a lower percentage of people regretted transition surgery than regretted things like hip or knee replacement. But of course to them literally anyone who regrets transition is cause to ban it.

You're missing the point. They regret when people choose gender-affirming surgery. That's the real issue. I know it's not the argument they're saying out loud, but it's the real issue.

I'm not trans, but I wholeheartedly agree with you. As living beings we deserve autonomy, which includes the right to make choices that we may later regret. It isn't up to anyone else but the individual to decide what's right for them. It's no-one else's business (especially the government)

I was going to say, it's been known for a long time that it's around 1%, this isn't new information, and while we should take seriously the issues of de-trans (not anti-trans) people and what about the process caused them issues, ~1% regret rate is impressively low for something like this.

thats the overall average, iirc things like top surgery (boobs and flattening) is something like .4% regret rate, and highest regret rate is phalloplasty at 2%. i think there were some extra criteria asking about complications which had like a 10% rate in most cases. so not even most people with complications regret it.

Buyers remorse is a thing too. Better outlaw purchases of anything outside of the essentials to live. Those can also cause buyers remorse. Guess we're just outlawing all purchases.

Same old intellectually lazy right-wing bullshit: Take an isolated example or two and apply it to an entire population.