General Discussion

I'll start by saying 99% of trans people who receive gender affirming care have no regrets and consider that it significantly improved their quality of life.

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detransition-371e927ec6e7a24cd9c77b5371c6ba2b

The people I've seen on YouTube who claim to have detransitioned and have regrets did not receive counseling or support for their transition. That counseling almost always includes talking through fertility issues before started testosterone and making arrangements to freeze eggs where this is a concern for the person involved.

There's one woman who said she literally decided she was trans, went to a drug store and started testosterone days later without doing any research on what it would do to her body and then two years later changed her mind. Well sorry but that was a stupid and impulsive decision that you now have to deal with the consequences of. It's not the job of the government to deny access to the 99% of people who would otherwise be suicidal from dysphoria because you made a bad choice for you and now regret it. And that's generously assuming her story is true in the first place. I remain skeptical that you can just walk into any pharmacy you like and just start buying T. She must have gotten a fake prescription online somewhere.

Significantly more people regret tattoos and piercings than regret gender affirming care and yet those are both still widely available on the basis that people can make decisions about what they want to do to their own bodies where it causes absolutely zero harm to anyone else.

If we actually educated people about gender affirming care, and had widely available, high quality, and free counseling for people to understand their options including their options with regards to fertility (instead of having to rely on TikTok and YouTube for their health information on hormone treatment impacts) then you would have fewer people making impulsive, poorly informed decisions about it and then later milking their sob stories for social media clout to the detriment of the wider community.