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Yeah. I imagine there are regrets sometimes. On the other hand, what about the ones who are satisfied and glad they underwent the surgery?
But this doesn't compare to outcomes if you deny sex change to people with sexual dysphoria. Also, what it recommends is improved care after transition:
"Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group."
This one is an opinion piece.
One thing I've noticed with these lists of links people give is that 1) usually the person doing the linking doesn't know what it says (for example, when a site listed abolishing child labor as an indication we were becoming communist, which you disagreed with_ or the person linking isn't very good at evaluating sources.
This source says, "hundreds of trans people regret" but then only relates two anecdotes. It just isn't a very good source. I do not doubt that there will be people with regrets, but the process is designed to minimize those regrets with lots of check points before getting to a point of irreversibility (as I showed previously).
So if proper medically approved steps are followed a person who actually undergoes sex change operation has gone through all this:
a determination by mental and physcial health professionals "that surgery is medically necessary and would benefit the patient’s overall health and/or well-being."
that clinicians approve genital gender-affirming surgery only after completion of at least 1 year of consistent and compliant hormone treatment, unless hormone therapy is not desired or medically contraindicated.
5.4. We recommend that clinicians refer hormone-treated transgender individuals for genital surgery when: (1) the individual has had a satisfactory social role change, (2) the individual is satisfied about the hormonal effects, and (3) the individual desires definitive surgical changes.
5.5. We suggest that clinicians delay gender-affirming genital surgery involving gonadectomy and/or hysterectomy until the patient is at least 18 years old or legal age of majority in his or her country
I think, as the newsweek article says, we have to very careful about this. But if after all this, adults still want to go through with the reassignment process, then it's sort of on them. One of the people in that article who says he wanted the change after a mental breakdown shouldn't have qualified for the change. It could be the process is more developed now then it was at that time.