I always enjoy your well thought out and fact based comments.
Do you have a (non-trans advocate) source for the 50% figure?
Thanks for the compliment, and no, I don’t. I’m a bit ADD RE holding onto data. I know it is a self supported questionnaire type stat, though. And it’s like sending your kid to a $100k a year college. All the parents think the school is GREAT. Sonsome people who have transitioned feel they invested so much into this paradigm that they ‘of course’ are happier after ‘transitioning.’
I think the most honest evaluation after would come from the sad people who realize changing the name and the body didnt take away the ghastly feeling of not fitting in re gender and sex. And if any cure or treatment is only 50% successful, it’s not very promising.