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Good-Expression-4433 t1_j9vti0i wrote

Reply to comment by bonkly68 in Kaiser Permanente Sued Over Hormone Therapy by derpwild

More people are struck by lightning than detransition. There's cases that do happen but the system already has checks in place and erecting even more leads to halting care for people who need it way more than it stops people who don't.

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[deleted] t1_j9vu9ns wrote

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sanash t1_j9vvfxy wrote

Uhh...people literally regret medical procedures all the time. Virtually every single medical procedure involves some potential amount of harm/risk.

So much in fact that there are literally research studies on it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0949265821003535

I'd venture to guess there are more people as a percentage that regret their knee/hip replacements than there are people that regret their transition.

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Good-Expression-4433 t1_j9vvyez wrote

Side effects can occur with every drug prescribed off label. That's why doctors want to be the ones to prescribe them and monitor instead of going back to the days before accepted trans care where trans people, including minors, self medicated or killed themselves. Puberty blockers like Lupron in particular, which is often the extent minors are allowed to even go to until the age of medical privacy and consent, have been studied and widely used for decades with even cisgender kids and found to be overwhelmingly safe.

Again, to erect more barriers to stop fringe cases ultimately limits care for exponentially more people who did need it.

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[deleted] t1_j9wbyxl wrote

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Brittainthecommie2 t1_j9xr9r1 wrote

Bro, your obsession with being an anti trans hate monger is fucking weird.

You just wake up every day thinking about trans men and women? And then spend the rest of the day hate posting and spreading misinformation. Go take a breath and find a hobby. Damn.

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