97% of Transgender Adolescents are Satisfied with and Continue Gender Affirming Medical Care

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A study published in AMA Pediatrics of 220 adolescents aged 12 years or older throughout Canada and the US has found high rates of satisfaction, with 97% of participants continuing to access gender-affirming medical care in the roughly 3 to 5 years since beginning treatment.

Only 4% of respondents—9 in total—indicated clear regret for at least 1 treatment. Of those, 4 have continued seeking gender-affirming care.

Most participants, who were 16 years old on average, indicated that the timing of treatment had been just right or expressed that they wished it had begun at an earlier age. Between 0% and 6% reported a desire that the treatment had commenced either later or never.

Although the results suggest high levels of satisfaction and low levels of regret with gender-affirming hormones and puberty blockers, the authors underscored the need to better understand cases of dissatisfaction, considering that regret was not synonymous with stopping care.

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