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  1. Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence

    Introduction. Discordance or misalignment between gender identity and sex assigned at birth can translate into disproportionate discomfort, configuring the definition of gender dysphoria. 1-3 This population has increased risk of psychiatric conditions, including depression, substance abuse disorders, self-injury, and suicide, compared with cis-gender individuals. 4,5 Approximately 0.6% of ...

  2. Reversal Surgery in Regretful Male-to-Female Transsexuals After Sex

    Introduction: Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) has proved an effective intervention for patients with gender identity disorder. However, misdiagnosed patients sometimes regret their decision and request reversal surgery. This review is based on our experience with seven patients who regretted their decision to undergo male-to-female SRS.

  3. How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?

    In a review of 27 studies involving almost 8,000 teens and adults who had transgender surgeries, mostly in Europe, the U.S and Canada, 1% on average expressed regret. For some, regret was temporary, but a small number went on to have detransitioning or reversal surgeries, the 2021 review said. Research suggests that comprehensive psychological ...

  4. Health Care Experiences of Patients Discontinuing or Reversing Prior

    Importance Medical education, research, and clinical guidelines are available to support the initiation of gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary people. By contrast, little is known about the clinical experiences of those who discontinue or seek to reverse gender-affirming medical or surgical interventions due to a change in gender identity, often referred to as detransition.

  5. Guiding the conversation—types of regret after gender-affirming surgery

    Percent citing this in request for reversal; True gender-related regret: Involves a person having undergone a transition in gender whether by social, medical, or surgical means, indicating a formal change in gender identity, who then desires to return to their assigned sex at birth or a different gender identity ... Junge A. Sex Reassignment ...

  6. Why detransitioners are crucial to the science of gender care

    The study's authors said they found a 2.2% regret rate among patients who had gender reassignment surgeries in Sweden from 1960 to 2010. The researchers found 681 people who filed a government ...

  7. Detransition

    Detransition is the cessation or reversal of a transgender identification or of gender transition, temporarily or permanently, through social, legal, and/or medical means. ... In a January 2023 study of 1989 individuals who had undergone sex reassignment surgery, 6 individuals (0.3%) requested a reversal surgery or detransitioned. ...

  8. Gender Affirmation Surgery: What Happens, Benefits & Recovery

    Gender reassignment is an outdated term for gender affirmation surgery. The new language, "gender affirmation," is more accurate in terms of what the surgery does (and doesn't) do. No surgery can reassign your gender — who you know yourself to be. Instead, gender-affirming surgery changes your physical body so that it better aligns with ...

  9. Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender

    The regret rate following gender-affirming surgery is thought to be approximately 1%; however, previous studies relied heavily on ad hoc instruments. ... No responders or nonresponders requested or underwent a reversal procedure. The median Satisfaction With Decision Scale score was 5.0 (IQR, 5.0-5.0) on a 5-point scale, with higher scores ...

  10. Regrets in Transgender Female: Reversal Phalloplasty

    Olsson SE, Moller A. Regret after sex reassignment surgery in male to female transsexual: a long-term follow-up. Arch Sex Bihavior. 2006;35:501-6. Article Google Scholar Djordjevic ML, Bizic MR, Duisin D, et al. Reversal surgery in regretful male-to-female transsexuals after sex reassignment surgery. J Sex Med. 2016;13:1000-7. Article ...

  11. Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review ...

    The authors of the March 2021 Gender Affirming Surgery Mini-series article entitled "Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence" (Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2021;9(3):e3477), wish to make the following corrections in the tables and figures.The systematic review was re-conducted, and the meta-analysis was re-run with the updated numbers ...

  12. Detransitioned teens explain why they regret changing genders

    Courtesy of Chloe Cole. Helena Kerschner, a 23-year-old detransitioner from Cincinnati, Ohio, who was born a biological female, first felt gender dysphoric at age 14. She says Tumblr sites filled ...

  13. Gender reversal surgery is more in-demand than ever before

    As of 30 August, there were 213 patients on the list for gender reassignment surgery at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. At present, there are no statistics regarding gender reversal ...

  14. Regret after Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Multidisciplinary ...

    The incidence of individuals who underwent GAS at the authors' program between 2016 and 2021 and subsequently expressed desire to reverse their gender transition was reported. Results: Among 1989 individuals who underwent GAS, six (0.3%) either requested reversal surgery or transitioned back to their sex assigned at birth. A multidisciplinary ...

  15. Reversal Surgery in Regretful Male-to-Female Transsexuals After Sex

    Introduction. Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) has proved an effective intervention for patients with gender identity disorder.However, misdiagnosed patients sometimes regret their decision and request reversal surgery. This review is based on our experience with seven patients who regretted their decision to undergo male-to-female SRS.

  16. Reversal Surgery in Regretful Male-to-Female Transsexuals After Sex

    Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) has proved an effective intervention for patients with gender identity disorder. However, misdiagnosed patients sometimes regret their decision and request reversal surgery. This review is based on our experience with seven patients who regretted their decision to undergo male-to-female SRS.

  17. PDF Clinical Review Criteria Related to Gender Reassignment Surgery

    Gender reassignment surgery may also be referred to as gender-affirming or gender-confirmation ... reversal for asymmetrical chin) 21123 Genioplasty; sliding, augmentation with interpositional bone grafts (includes obtaining autografts) 21208 Osteoplasty, facial bones; augmentation

  18. Gender Reassignment Reversal

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  19. University 'turned down politically incorrect transgender research

    He said he was first alerted to the issue of gender reassignment reversal in 2014, when a Belgrade doctor told him he had been asked to carry out an unprecedented seven reversals that year.

  20. How Many Trans People Regret Transitioning?

    The survey claims that 11% of female respondents reverted back to their original sex. Transgender men had a reversion rate of 4%. Those who chose to revert cited a variety of reasons. Five percent of those who detransitioned realized that a gender transition was not what they wanted.