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tanadrin

in 1820, anything beyond pennsylvania was still "the south". nowadays NoVa barely even counts. most of florida certainly doesn't. by 2450, "the south" will be a narrow strip from savannah to shreveport. the last good barbecue recipe will be in the hands of a tiny enclave of primitive baptists, hidden in the fens of the okefenokee national wildlife refuge.

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quoms

Somewhat bothered by liberal media outlets taking it at face value that Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo are trying to "remake" New College as a prestige conservative institution, then acting amused/bemused at how badly they're supposedly failing in this endeavor (faculty exodus, lowered academic standards for incoming students, and so on). I think the safer assumption would be that they're doing what it looks like they're doing, which is trying to kill the school and, secondarily, squeeze as much money out of its corpse as they can. They're lying about that, but they're also on record lying about basically everything else you can think of. Is it so difficult to call a grift a grift?

Even to the extent that it's not just an excuse to pay Richard Corcoran $700,000 a year - let's look at their ideological commitments. They hate queer- and minority-friendly education, yes, but not in a way that's neatly separable from their grievances against public education, higher education, and certainly public higher education. You're not going to see faculty retention as a problem if you think those professors were plotting against you! Look, the Federalist Society's mission isn't to improve the quality of the judicial system, it's to fill it with disciplined and obedient conservative robots who will regurgitate pre-written taking points in a consistent, predictable way. That is the value system of these people. If that seems like it's at odds with the qualities that make a great university a great university, then maybe it is.

Besides, guys in their income bracket are not going to be sending their own kids to state school on scholarship, bastion of "classical education" or otherwise. DeSantis went to Yale and Harvard and Rufo went to Georgetown (and Harvard clown school). Their problem with institutions like these is that they are too accessible to the wrong type of people, wink wink nudge nudge, not that they aren't accessible enough. They are not going to exert themselves creating an open public alternative when they can be perfectly satisfied with crushing everything they have the power to crush and then using the Supreme Court to discipline the Ivies. Just wrecking Florida's public primary and higher education systems should be more than enough to undermine both economic mobility and ideological diversity - they don't need to build anything in its place to accomplish those goals. They are being given way too much credit even by the people supposedly opposed to them.

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probablyasocialecologist

The study itself is titled, “Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender-Affirming Mastectomy,” and sought to study the rate of regret and satisfaction after 2 years or more following gender affirming top surgery. The study’s results were stunning - in 139 surgery patients, the median regret score was 0/100 and the median satisfaction score was 5/5 with similar means as well. In other words… regret was virtually nonexistent in the study among post-op transgender people.

In fact, the regret was so low that many statistical techniques would not even work due to the uniformity of the numbers:

In this cross-sectional survey study of participants who underwent gender-affirming mastectomy 2.0 to 23.6 years ago, respondents had a high level of satisfaction with their decision and low rates of decisional regret. The median Satisfaction With Decision score was 5 on a 5-point scale, and the median decisional regret score was 0 on a 100-point scale. This extremely low level of regret and dissatisfaction and lack of variance in scores impeded the ability to determine meaningful associations among these results, clinical outcomes, and demographic information.

The numbers are in line with many other studies on satisfaction among transgender people. Detransition rates, for instance, have been pegged at somewhere between 1-3%, with transgender youth seeing very low detransition rates. Surgery regret is in line with at least 27 other studies that show a pooled regret rate of around 1% - compare this to regret rates from things like knee surgery, which can be as high as 30%. Gender affirming care appears to be extremely well tolerated with very low instances of regret when compared to other medically necessary care.

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The intense conservative backlash, to the point of disputing reputable scientific journals, likely stems from the fact that reduced regret rates weaken a central narrative these figures have championed in legal and legislative spaces. Over the past three years, anti-trans entities have showcased political detransitioners, reminiscent of the ex-gay campaigns from the 1990s and 2000s, to argue that regrets over gender transition and detransition are widespread. Some have even asserted detransition rates of up to 80%, a claim that has been broadly debunked. Yet, research consistently struggles to find substantial evidence supporting this narrative. The rarity of detransition and regret is underscored by Florida's inability to enlist a single resident to bear witness against a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on gender-affirming care.

Source: erininthemorning.com