When you control the search criteria you control the research!
Two of the most important thing of any research is how you define the problem and how you get your subjects. We saw that in the research of "Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria" the researcher got her subjects from a conservative parent's website. She never talked to any trans children, only their parents which flawed the study.
So now we have Trump ordering a study of " to study ‘regret’ after transgender people transition" and right off the start them title is biased! When you are looking just for regrets it will bias the study.
After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
Nature
By Max Kozlov
April 3, 2025
As the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to defund nearly every research project on transgender health, the White House has directed the agency to focus on studying “regret” after a person transitions to align their body with their gender identity. Several NIH employees, who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed the directive to Nature.
Look at the wording of the charge given by the acting NIH director gave to the department, does that sound unbiased?
Two weeks ago, Matthew Memoli, who was acting NIH director at the time, sent an e-mail to the directors of several NIH institutes. It said that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the NIH’s parent agency, “has been directed to fund research on a few specific areas” related to what it calls “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children and adults — a reference to gender-affirming care and surgery. “This is very important to the President and the Secretary” of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the e-mail added.
Just look at the language! “Chemical and surgical mutilation” does that sound unbiased?
There have been a number of studies of trans regret but the results were not what the Republicans liked so they are going to do their own study.
The Conversation
By Harry Barbee, Bashar Hassan, & Fan Liang
January 22, 2024
You’ll often hear lawmakers, activists and pundits argue that many transgender people regret their decision to have gender-affirming surgeries – a belief that’s been fueling a wave of legislation that restricts access to gender-affirming health care.
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Evidence suggests that less than 1% of transgender people who undergo gender-affirming surgery report regret. That proportion is even more striking when compared to the fact that 14.4% of the broader population reports regret after similar surgeries.
For example, studies have found that between 5% and 14% of all women who receive mastectomies to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer say they regretted doing so. However, less than 1% of transgender men who receive the same procedure report regret.
What will Trump & Company find? Pub Med reported...
Historical data suggest that regret following gender transition in adulthood is rare (Blanchard et al., 1989; Dhejne et al., 2014; Lawrence, 2003; Pfäfflin, 1993; Rehman et al., 1999; van de Grift et al., 2018; Weyers et al., 2009; Wiepjes et al., 2018). However, studies reporting low rates of regret are generally from an era when hormonal therapy and surgery were only undertaken under strict protocol. Regret was ascertained by a variety of methods, including retrospective review of medical charts for documentation of regret, or unvalidated questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, which are susceptible to non-response bias (Blanchard et al., 1989; Lawrence, 2003; Rehman et al., 1999; van de Grift et al., 2018; Weyers et al., 2009; Wiepjes et al., 2018). Other researchers have used a very narrow definition of regret, such as application to have birth sex reinstated as legal sex (Dhejne et al., 2014). More recently, patients with post-operative regret were identified using requests for surgical reversal, although it is unknown what proportion of those who experience regret pursue further surgery (Narayan et al., 2021). Patients who started hormonal therapies but did not proceed further with surgical removal of the ovaries or testes were often excluded from assessments of regret (Dhejne et al., 2014; Wiepjes et al., 2018); it is possible that those who were disqualified from or choose not to undergo gonadectomy had higher levels of regret than those who went on to complete their surgical transition (D'Angelo, 2018). Many studies also suffered from high rates of loss to follow-up, and patients who died by suicide or from medical complications were frequently not included in the analyses (Dhejne et al., 2014; Wiepjes et al., 2018), which may mask regret.
For many trans people problems with other medical problems like diabetes, kidney disease, heart problems prevent them form have Gender Confirming Surgery and were counted as having regrets! So it is very important in how they define "detransition" and "regrets," I know about five people who detransitioned. The majority of those people did it not because they were not trans but rather for family or financial reasons and one because of religious pressure. One of them who detransitioned for financial and family reasons retranistioned.
In Europe alone, there’s over $186 million in funding for anti-gender movements coming from the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the Russian government has over 50 anti-gender actors operating within the continent. Of course, these actors spread misinformation with the intention of influencing the conversation around detransitioning to their advantage.
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One study, paraded around by the anti-trans crowd, claimed that 80% of trans children desisted later in life. However, when the study underwent scrutiny, researchers discovered that the methodology was deeply flawed. The study in question did not differentiate between the following:
- Young people with gender dysphoria
- Young people who socially transitioned but not medically
In fact, nearly half of the children involved in the study could not be located at its conclusion. They were recorded as “desisters” by default, and thus, “detransitioners”. However, they’re not the same thing.
In fact, the only justifiable conclusion that peer reviewers could be draw from the study upon scrutiny of its data, was that strong gender dysphoria was a good predictor of future medical transition.
Of course the right-wing conservatives don't like the results so they are doing their own study (So much for DOGE to cut government waste!
So pay attention on how they define "regrets" and "detransitioning!"
Sorry for the late post, but I was watching the UConn Women's Basketball win the Women's NCAA Tournament! They demolished No. 1 overall seed UCLA 85-51 two days ago and now they win against South Carolina 82 - 59
