andrewducker | Interesting Links for 16-07-2025

Hmm.
Approximately 92,329 binary and nonbinary trans Americans aged 16 and older — including 84,170 adults — participated

Were those who detransitioned after (bottom) surgery included in the survey ?

The survey seems to be of people who took a step backwards at some point in their transition, but eventually decided that they were trans or non-binary.

The Cass report was significantly concerned about those who considered transitioning and then decided that they were going to stick with their assigned gender. Those people don't appear to be part of this survey.
Planners of gender identity services need to know how many such people there are and perhaps how to support patients to work out which they are.
Of course, it may be that with the current provision those people never reach the existing services, but if we were to be supporting patients at an age when puberty-blockers would be useful, more of these people would be seen.

(I am aware of one person in my online world who surgically transitioned because of family pressure and who has big regrets and now believes that they should have stayed at gender-fluid.)

They *would* be included. And I'm sorry they were pressured by anyone at all! That's awful.

Although the far more common experience (it was my own) is to be pressured NOT to surgically transition. I won't bore you with the legal and psychological threats that were made.

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