As societies continue to debate the boundaries of medical autonomy for young people, a new study offers empirical grounding to a deeply contested question: whether adolescents who undergo gender-affirming chest surgery come to regret it. Researchers found that among patients surveyed at a pediatric hospital, both adolescents and young adults reported near-identical outcomes — median regret scores of zero and maximum satisfaction scores — suggesting that age alone may not be the determining factor in surgical readiness. The findings do not close the conversation, but they shift its center of gr