The social implications of coming out as transsexual (or otherwise transgender) have received far less attention, but the question of possible regret is just as pertinent at this point as at any other: telling people that you want to transition is as difficult to reverse as any of the consequent physical interventions.
"There's a threshold question of: Would we regret not having this?" The item will enter the museum's collection of 20th- and 21st-century artifacts, which includes images of adult women at their bat mitzvahs and baby-naming announcements for Jewish families adopting Chinese children, Ms. Spilka said.
That statement raised the obvious question of whether she regretted the most controversial venture of her 10-month tour as publisher of The Los Angeles Times: the decision to share revenue from a special issue of the Sunday magazine with the owners of the city's new convention hall, the Staples Center, which was the subject of the issue.
In later interviews, though, he has been known to coyly reply, "Maybe, maybe not" to the question of masturbation, probably regretting not having come up with that interpretation first.
But Mr. McGreevey didn't stick around to answer questions about his statement of regret, so there was little chance that he would give the story any more oxygen.
This nourishes the hope of making the ideal choice, she says, as well as the fanciful idea that there are "quick, rational solutions to the complicated question of seduction".Confusion, indecision, panic, regret, anxiety: choice seems to come at a price.
At the other end of a string of questions trying to tease out a tinge of regret, Glavine held firm.
While outcomes evaluating patient decision tools include knowledge and decisional conflict [ 36], the question of whether these tools reduce the experience of regret in the event of an "avoidable stroke" or "avoidable serious bleeding" remains unanswered.
These questions still haunt me, and my biggest sense of regret is not putting my best foot forward.
Still, a snub is a snub, though Lopez laughed off a question about extra incentive to leave Orlando feeling pangs of regret.
