Gender transition increases mental health problems
A major 25-year study of young people with gender distress found that those who went on to receive medical gender treatments, including hormones or surgery, experienced sharp increases in mental health problems.
It found those most affected were youngsters transitioning from male to female who saw their need for specialist mental health care soar from 9.8 per cent before treatment to 60.7 per cent afterwards.
Those transitioning from female to male also experienced a steep increase – from 21.6 per cent to 54.5 per cent.
The study, published in the Finnish journal, Acta Paediatrica, goes to the heart of the debate – whether gender medicine improves young people’s mental health, or does more harm than good.
The study, one of the most comprehensive of its kind, followed up every adolescent referred to gender clinics in Finland from 1996-2010 and involved 2,083 youngsters up to age 23 who were followed for an average of five years but in some cases as long as 25 years.
Almost four in ten (38.2 per cent) went on to have medical interventions such as cross-sex hormones or surgery.
Even after taking previous mental illness into account, this group remained far more likely to need mental health care than their peers – up to five times more likely in some cases.
The researchers concluded: “Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment,” and added treatment may even have “a negative impact”.
The study found the same overall pattern when looking at all young people referred to gender clinics – even if they did not go on to have treatment.
Researchers compared the group referred to clinics for gender distress to 18,000 under-23s who had not been referred.
No similar increase in mental health problems was seen among this group. Among this group, only around 15 per cent needed specialist psychiatric care over the same period – far lower than the rates seen in those experiencing gender distress.
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of Oxford University’s Centre of Evidence Based Medicine said: “Radical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and surgery which can have irreversible and unwanted side effects are not a silver bullet to prevent these debilitating mental health problems.
Cross sex hormones have been linked to adverse effects such as bone loss, infertility, sexual disfunction, heart problems, strokes, blood clots, stroke, and breast cancer. Gender surgery is irreversible.
Canadian study from University of Ottawa confirmed these statistics, when research shows that:
- transgender and gender diverse people were up to three times more likely to meet the criteria for depression, generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder and social phobia over a one-year period compared to cisgender people.
- More than half of transgender or gender diverse people in the study had met the criteria for major depression, generalized anxiety, or social phobia in their lives.
- Transgender and gender diverse people were three times more likely to report thoughts of suicide and 6 times more likely to have attempted suicide during their lifetime.
Life has shown that traditional families are the best environment for raising healthy future generations of children. It is time to end this woke agenda, which harms children, creates confusion, and ultimately leads to significant damage to children’s mental health, as well as broader economic and social harm to society.
We need to understand that this is part of a broader, ongoing agenda to undermine Western society and Christianity, which is an inseparable part of Western culture and traditions.
NN, DB
