Mick Hartley

Absolute codswollop! There have been no long terms follow studies and the figure you quote is pure fiction. 26% of my adult gender dysphoria patients over a 10 year period were regretters and none of them had been followed up. None of the UK gender clinics followed up any…

— Dr Az Maxwell Hakeem (@Doctor_Az_) November 13, 2026

None of the UK gender clinics followed up any patients so please stop gaslighting the public with fake made up statistics. I work as a specialist in the field you do not and are just a non-clinical activist

That study was from the WaPo:

Nearly 97 percent of transgender people who received hormone therapy as teenagers did not regret it five years later, a study found.

Though some patients did regret medically transitioning, those rates are relatively low compared to other medical interventions.…

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 11, 2026

It was from a single clinic. Half of the sample didn’t respond – so clearly a massive built-in bias. Five years isn’t long enough anyway – it takes longer for the problems to hit home. The study was conducted by a clinical pychologist specialising in transgender and gender-diverse youth….

See also, Victoria Smith at UnHerd.

If you have done something very damaging to your body, one which causes it permanent harm, you will be highly invested in believing the alternative would have been worse. Indeed, if I had harmed my body based on a lie, I’d work damn hard at maintaining that lie for the rest of my life. This would not mean that I was happy.