Quote Originally Posted by Strange_Fool_215 View Post
Uh, nitpick, I'm pretty sure that last sentence isn't actually true. The only people who actually end up getting a sex change are ones who've been extensively vetted by psychiatrists and who've typically spent years living as a member of the target sex socially to get used to the idea. They don't go through with it unless they really want it. Now, self-identified men who are ********* are probably going to have a very, very high rate of regretting it... but there's a different between someone who thinks of themselves as a man losing his balls, and someone who thinks of themselves as a woman losing 'their' balls that they never wanted in the first place. Sorry for the digression, but it's an issue that affects a few people I know and care about so I get pedantic.
The part about 90% of men regret their decision is based on what a psychologist told me. I do not know if he read that somewhere, if it was a guess from personal experience, or what exactly but that is what he told everyone in my college class. He had 7 years of practice before he started teaching but who knows. You are right that therapists vet out people. Commonly they convince them to dress like the opposite sex for at least one year. Despite this I was told that 90% of them regret their decision to have a sex change operation. They also went into the gruesome details of the surgery. I would like to see some statistics on how many people actually do regret their decision.