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As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

In short, there is no evidence that regret for transitioning is a widespread phenomena. Even among studies that deliberately oversample detransitioners and that include work done by anti-trans actors, the majority of participants *still* don't do so because they stop being trans.

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

It doesn't even stop at surgeries, either. Pew Research did a representative survey of Americans with tattoos, and found that *24%* of them regret getting at least one of them! www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

Let's give a point of comparison here. One study on knee and hip replacement surgeries found 17.1% and 4.8%, respectively, of participants regretted getting these surgeries. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

A meta analysis of over 7000 recipients of surgeries found that only 1% reported any form of regret. journals.lww.com/prsgo/fullte...

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

And, it should be noted that the above results include studies that are explicitly by anti-trans authors such as Lisa Littman and that deliberately oversample anti-trans support groups. Meaning, even with the right-wing attempts to bias their research, their own results *still* contradict them.*

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

A meta analysis of over 2000 detransitioners found similar findings, with the majority of all the participants reporting some level of discrimination, societal pressure, financial issues, or some combination thereof. While many in the study reported regret, this does not mean they thought of...

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

...did so out of regret. Every other participant did so because of reasons relating to medical concerns, familial pressure, systematic bigotry, legal concerns, and many other issues. Very few cited regret or a change in identity as the reason. genderminorities.com/wp-content/u...

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

Andrea James of Transgender Map wrote a detailed article earlier this year that compiles all different resources, including both blogs for layman readers and academic papers for the more technical-minded, showing that these studies are flawed and, in some cases, authored by conversion therapists

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

...or for any number of other reasons. This is to say nothing about how transitioning is personalized and broad in its scope, with it ranging from changing one's name, clothes, and pronouns to taking hormones to taking surgery. Every trans person is different on their journey.

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

For instance, TNN's own @thefreeradical.org had periods where she went off HRT for months at a time owing to poverty, and briefly even tried (and failed) to repress being trans for a brief period out of fears of safety. Would she count as a detransitioner under many conservative definitions?

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

Those who are politically minded will see parallels to rhetoric today. This is no coincidence. These movements aren't in isolation - many of the very groups that were behind this initial push, e.g. Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom - are now pushing against trans rights today.

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

This is not a position they've abandoned. In an article updated this April they reiterated their stance, highlighting even more evidence that emerged, showing that not only is conversion therapy bunk science, but that it is dangerous to people's lives. www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq...

As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

For as long as trans people have been researched by academics, there has been a crowd insistent that we'll somehow eventually come to regret it, often as a push for conversion therapy. Much of this had its origins in the same set of far-right movements that pushed the same on cis gays & lesbians.

Despite Seattle's reputation as a trans haven, the University of Washington has reacted to escalating attacks on trans rights with silence — even after a trans student was murdered. But trans academic workers, unionized with UAW, are fighting back. Our latest, from @thefreeradical.org.

Like universities around the country, UW administrators are more interested in appeasing fascism than defying it. But the UAW-affiliated trans collective clearly sees how labor, trans and anti-racist fights collide, and are using innovative tactics to press forward in the face of official stalling.