In recent years, reports have broke showing that young people who underwent irreversible, experimental transgender surgeries and hormone treatments as minors lived to regret it when they got older. One example of this is Chloe Cole, who underwent a double mastectomy when she was only 15 years old. She later announced that she would sue the medical providers who performed the operation, which Townhall covered.
“My teenage life has been the culmination of excruciating pain, regret, and most importantly injustice. It is impossible for me to recoup what I have lost, but I will insure no child will be harmed at the hands of these liars and mutilators. I am suing these monsters,” she said on X, formerly known as Twitter, announcing the lawsuit.
My teenage life has been the culmination of excruciating pain, regret, and most importantly injustice. It is impossible for me to recoup what I have lost, but I will insure no child will be harmed at the hands of these liars and mutilators. I am suing these monsters. @pnjaban pic.twitter.com/i80VHvGXJn
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) November 11, 2022
In another example, Mia noted, a teenager who believed she was "a transgender boy" announced she would sue a California hospital and its clinicians after its doctors performed a double mastectomy on her when she was only 13.
This week, in the medical journal JAMA Surgery, a study claimed that women who had a “gender-affirming” mastectomy, also known as “top surgery,” had “extremely” high levels of satisfaction to have the procedure.
The findings were “overwhelmingly positive compared to other medical and nonmedical decisions,” the study write-up stated. It also claimed that “serious complications were rare.” Cole Last year, Townhall covered how Cole said in an interview with Catholic News Agency that complications from her surgery over two years ago have continued.
“The top layer of skin is not really healing over. It emits this fluid constantly, so I have to wear non-adhesive bandages over them all the time," she told CNA.
The study reportedly captured the overall “quality of life” of women who believe they are men after undergoing the procedure (via CNN):
For the study, researchers surveyed 235 people who had a gender-affirming mastectomy at the University of Michigan. When the survey was conducted last year, the participants were between two and 23.6 years past their surgeries.
The survey captures the overall quality of life post-procedure. But rather than being specifically designed for trans patients who had this surgery, the survey was one that is often used in oncology to assess how someone feels about their treatment or screening. It can also be used in nonclinical settings to determine how someone feels about a particular medical procedure.
Of the participants, 139 – nearly 60% – answered the survey accurately and returned it to the researchers. Their median Satisfaction With Decision Scale score was 5 on a 5-point scale, indicating the highest possible level of satisfaction. The median Decision Regret Scale score was 0 on a 100-point scale, meaning not a single patient regretted their choice to have the surgery.
None of the survey respondents underwent a reversal procedure. About a quarter underwent an additional gender-affirming procedure after their mastectomy, the study says, results that “suggest sustained intent and consistency in decision making.”
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This research builds on earlier work that found deep satisfaction among people who had some form of a surgical procedure as a part of gender-affirming care. But many of those studies focused more on short-term satisfaction surveys.
Townhall reported how Ohio GOP Sen. J.D. Vance introduced legislation to outlaw irreversible transgender surgeries for minors. A previous study published in JAMA Pediatrics that Townhall covered also claimed that “top surgery” “significantly improves” the lives of “transmasculine” and “nonbinary” teens and young adults.
“Under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to perform these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children. With this legislation, we have an opportunity to save countless young Americans from a lifetime of suffering and regret,” Vance said in an interview with the Daily Caller about the legislation. “I look forward to working with my Senate colleagues to protect children from these life-altering procedures.”