#but VERY unhelpful when you're trying to make a decision for a dog that is not showing severe clinical signs of PL

[fjordfolk]

like would it kill ppl to do comparative studies on dogs with patellar luxation with and without surgical intervention over a (postoperative) period of more than 12 weeks

[heating-element]

No it's "I think I'm trans" "Here's some synthetic hormones". Anything else gets a mob calling for the professional's head because it's "gatekeeping".

Yeah, because we've tried the others and they don't work. Look up "gender identity change efforts". Some of the most popular are/were encouraging trans people to engage in activities associated with their assigned gender, limiting contact with mother's (that's psychology for you), and so called "talk therapy", all of which were examined and found to be unhelpful and abusive, so we don't do them anymore. That's how medicine works. You try something, it doesn't work, you try another thing, and eventually you hit something that works. For trans people, that thing is gender affirming care/

Statistically from where? What source?

Well you've tried to link 2 studies, but the links aren't there and they only seem to reference suicide rates, not regret rates, which could be influenced by any number of things other than just what care they were getting. Here, however is a retro-analysis of every study that has ever been done on regret rates of trans surgeries, pooling a total of around 30 studies and a whopping 8000 trans people.

(You will see at the top a link for a correction, however if you click it you will see the mistakes were very minor)

Which found that the rates of regret of transgender surgeries was around 1% ftm of female-born nonbinary people, and less than 1% in mtf and male-born nonbinary people.

I mean I could track down story after horrible story for you but if you're not moved by even one what's the point.

When you are making decisions on a political level, someone is going to get hurt. That's just a fact, I'm sorry. You could make a decree that everyone in your jurisdiction gets a free puppy, and someone will have a dog allergy and fall ill. It is simply not possible to do something on a large scale with only upsides. If your criterion for a successful political plan is literally nothing bad happening, you would do nothing

So yes, unless you can show me a statistically significant number of people who regret transitioning, it doesn't change anything. Someone will always get hurt, but, as the above statistics show, vastly more people don't get hurt. And we can do all we can do to help the people who get hurt, or we can just say "OK, no-one's allowed to transition anymore" and hurt everyone else who doesn't regret it (again, 99% in transmasc people and nearly 100% in transfem people)

All radfem ideology is built on one rock, and that is the reason that it is all bullshit. It is all built on the foundation that radfems know other people better than they know themselves

"I actually feel like a man/woman" no you don't you're brainwashed

"I like wearing makeup" no you don't you're brainwashed

"I want to shave my legs" no you don't you're brainwashed

"I got plastic surgery because it makes me feel better, not for other people" not only do you not think that, but you are actively being a misogynist just by thinking that you think that

I don't know who needs to hear this, but: NO MATTER HOW ENLIGHTENED YOU THINK YOU ARE, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BRAINS. AND YOU MOST CERTAINLY DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OTHER PEOPLE'S BRAINS ENOUGH TO TELL THEM THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT THEIR OWN, SUBJECTIVE FEELINGS