Category: Misinformation
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High drop-out rates mean reported detransition rates are misleading.
An ethics-focused meta-study of psychosocial outcomes of “gender reassigment”1 found that 20-60% of participants were lost to follow up. Remaining research participants were more likely to report satisfaction with interventions, so reported rates of regret/desistance/detransition in such studies may be highly misleading.
- D’Angelo R. Psychiatry’s ethical involvement in gender-affirming care. Australasian Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;26(5):460-463. doi: 10.1177/1039856218775216. Epub 2018 May 21. PMID: 29783857.
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- D’Angelo R. Psychiatry’s ethical involvement in gender-affirming care. Australasian Psychiatry. 2018 Oct;26(5):460-463. doi: 10.1177/1039856218775216. Epub 2018 May 21. PMID: 29783857.
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More than a third of UK residents in a survey did not know that “transgender women” are male.
More than a third of UK residents in a 2023 survey1 by Murray Blackburn Mackenzie—a Scottish independent policy analysis collective—did not know that “transgender women” are natal males. The findings show significant misunderstanding of the term and emphasize the need for clearer language in policy and media communication.
- Murray Blackburn Mackenzie. (2023, August 7). Clarity matters: How placating lobbyists obscures public understanding of sex and gender. Murray Blackburn Mackenzie. [Link] ↩︎