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by JimboOmega 3193 days ago
Some people experience regret; the rates are low.

Johns Hopkins got taken over by McHugh, who had a very clear (and stated) agenda to shut the clinic down. The evidence he compiled to do so was very sketchy - it didn't look at things like happiness or suicide rates. It looked at things like having heterosexual relationships (in the new sex) vs having homosexual ones. Nobody can quite figure out how it was scored and it overall feels very much like cherry picked junk statistics.

Also, not everyone who is trans needs or wants SRS, and many are happy without it. There used to be a lot less understanding of this, and it made things more difficult for a lot of people.

And ultimately? Yes, it would be great (and possibly change my own desire for it) if SRS was better, and allowed you to be fertile. This is true of most transgender treatments. It doesn't mean we should stop doing the not perfect things we have and stop pursuing better surgical options.