Aibu to think trans regret will become increasingly common?

[TheEighthMrsSK]

Sorry another trans one! I genuinely don’t mean to start a fight here, this is a topic I’m interested in. Reading this article this morning, it made complete sense to me, the potential reasons for regret including sexual abuse making her feel alienated from her female body and psychiatrists being too quick to diagnose her as trans.

AIBU to think that with the trans trend the way it is, regret will become increasingly common?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/im-still-debbie-man-reveals-13532989

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/im-still-debbie-man-reveals-13532989

"I genuinely don’t mean to start a fight here"

Lol

I wish there was such a thing as 'posting another tedious ts thread that adds nothing other than some frothing regret'

I think (having read the "article") that there's a little more going on there than just trans issues. Clearly the full psychiatric history of the person hasn't been revealed, and 'we' as an 'audience' to the bare minimum information can't possibly judge. Regret it they may do (or may report), but there would have been huge hoops to get where they are, and who knows, in absence of the medical reassignment that self-same person could be singing to the press about how they feel they are a man trapped in a woman's body (etc etc and all that goes with that). I think these articles are best left as what they appear to be - press-sensationalism.

@OscarWildesGreenCarnation Good point!

There's increasing evidence that many of the girls and young women who identify as boys/men are motivated by a history of sexual abuse, ASD and/or a fear and disgust of feminine stereotypes.

There's also the phenomenon of ROGD (rapid onset gender dysphoria) in which girls who have never expressed any discomfort with their sex suddenly present with gender dysphoria. Social contagion is clearly a factor.

Given the very serious and permanent effects of medical transition, you would expect TRAs to prioritize accurate diagnosis of gender dysphoria to minimise regret and inappropriate treatment. But the reverse is true. Research into detransitioners is fiercely opposed by the gender lobby.

I genuinely don’t mean to start a fight here

Yeah, good luck with that

There will undoubtedly be cases of regret, I also think there will be several hundred, if not thousands lawsuits from people 'transed' as children.