This was being shared by Billboard Chris online today and I thought I’d take a quick look at the evidence that the cited study provides to back up the “FACTS” quoted on the leaflet:
The regret rate for the Amsterdam group was claimed to be 1%.....but they dropped the 36% of the patients who stopped coming in for lifetime treatment (they may have gone elsewhere....or just stopped treatment...no one knows). It's even consistent with 36% stopping in other words. To count as a regretter you had to say in a visit that you regretted and ask for opposite sex hormones (but again, some detransitioners for instance find testosterone is a real problem after surgery, medically).
So that's a mess.
The Dutch studies indeed didn't even succeed in replication for de Vries et Al 2011 and you had to be psychologically stable to participate, so if you needed lifesaving help, you weren't in the study....plus all the great points you made.
The regret rate for the Amsterdam group was claimed to be 1%.....but they dropped the 36% of the patients who stopped coming in for lifetime treatment (they may have gone elsewhere....or just stopped treatment...no one knows). It's even consistent with 36% stopping in other words. To count as a regretter you had to say in a visit that you regretted and ask for opposite sex hormones (but again, some detransitioners for instance find testosterone is a real problem after surgery, medically).
So that's a mess.
The Dutch studies indeed didn't even succeed in replication for de Vries et Al 2011 and you had to be psychologically stable to participate, so if you needed lifesaving help, you weren't in the study....plus all the great points you made.
Thanks!
It seems they don’t expect anyone to look too closely for evidence? Maybe most people don’t look. Willful blindness...