High drop-out rates mean reported detransition rates are misleading.

Desistance   Detransition   Misinformation   Research quality  

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.

  1. 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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