One of the most common attacks on access for medical care for transgender people are concern trolls who ask the leading question, “What if they end up regretting it?” Their usual goal is to lead people down a rhetorical path towards supporting “reparative therapy” on transgender people, which is basically “pray away the gay” with a different label. They leave this detail out, of course, along with the fact that no one has ever demonstrated an effective way to change someone’s gender identity. Also left out is that the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed studies on regret rates show them to
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