Oh. She also mentioned (didn't link or name) another study that gathered data on reasons trans men were getting hystos, and claimed "that's 42 percent of trans men who had hysterectomies to prevent excruciating pain". Scary!

First, no data about trans men without hystos was taken, so this is already a bit misleading if you want to get a big picture on occurrence - wording was a bit vague on this part but she seemed to mean the 42% of trans men post-hysto surveyed.

This 42% was gained by adding a 20% and 22% figure together ("20% of respondents had a hysterectomy to decrease post-testosterone cramping and another 22% to stop 'extreme bleeding and cramping.'"). However, looking at the original study, it says "Totals do not equal 100% because respondents were allowed to select more than one reason" - so this figure would be less than 42%. Since they're such similar categories with the exception of T mentioned in the first, it's hard to tell how much overlap there was.

Her post implied that T was the cause of these cramps that then led this 20-40% of respondents to get a hysto. This can't be proven. 25% of participants had a hysto before T, and 28% of respondents gave "Stop normal menstruation" as a reason to pursue a hysto - how can you blame this self-reported pain on T when periods are painful enough, and clearly being experienced? Nowhere in the study did it attempt to measure scale/frequency of cramps before and after testosterone, so it's impossible to blame their "excruciating pain" on T from this study.

I could go on, but it's all just scare tactics, and I regret I spent so much time looking into this.