A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out โ this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
@AdeshaF@jan_murray@joshxhowie@GBNEWS Actually there is evidence that the trans identified men are statistically far more likely to commit SAโs than men. And you having no fear of trans women ( men) is irrelevant. Looks like egotistical virtual signalling.
@Psychgirl211@joshxhowie@GBNEWS Your explanations give me the knowledge to defend myself, and my hard line on biological reality. Much appreciated Dr P. ๐
@KowalskiKit@WomensNN Anyone reacting to the previous name like this clearly has mental health conditions. And also found a way to get $35000 and attention. Ridiculous.
This is superb.
The lesson begins with the usual catechism: J.K. Rowling has โbigoted opinionsโ.
Then someone makes the unforgivable mistake of reading what she actually wrote.
Suddenly, certainty requires definitions. Slogans require evidence. โEveryone knowsโ requires rather more than everyone saying it.
Critical thinking really is murder on a fashionable consensus.