Gregory's Server@mzan We see basically no change in regret between the incredibly difficult standards imposed on trans people in the 50s and 60s and the current standards which are much looser.
We've known trans people present the story the gatekeepers want to hear, to access medical care. That was true in the 1950s and is true now. Yet despite this, the regret rate remains nearly zero.
I'm also unaware of any studies actually looking at whether gatekeeping lowers regret (Bostos, et al, 2021 didn't).
@joelle I cannot follow you. This study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/ suggests that selection criteria are useful because regrets are very low, 1%. And you said initially that the regrets in the wild west of breast augmentation is 20%. So this is already a proof that some regolumentation is beneficial.
We can discuss if the 20% of regrets are linked also to the low quality of some surgeon, and not only to patients not knowing really what they want. But, the difference is rather large.
@joelle I cannot follow you. This study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/ suggests that selection criteria are useful because regrets are very low, 1%. And you said initially that the regrets in the wild west of breast augmentation is 20%. So this is already a proof that some regolumentation is beneficial.