Anti-trans activists like to use an old, discredited study that found 80% of trans kids retransitioned back to their gender assigned at birth to argue that minors shouldn't be allowed to take puberty blockers or hormones, because it'll ruin their body and it's a phase they'll just grow out of and regret.<p>They also like to use better studies on the subject like this one, which finds that 2.5% of trans kids retransitioned, to argue that social transition is a harmful gateway into a lifelong pipeline of medicalization with puberty blockers and hormones that will ruin their body and that they'll one day regret.<p>I imagine it must be convenient to have an unfalsifiable belief system.