Gender reassignment and psychiatric needs

[George K]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/have-the-psychiatric-needs-of-people-seeking-gender-reassignment-changed-as-their-numbers-increase-a-register-study-in-finland/D09F9414F798E0462AF911152E7BF576#

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Abstract

Background
The number of people seeking gender reassignment (GR) has increased everywhere and these increases particularly concern adolescents and emerging adults with female sex. It is not known whether the psychiatric needs of this population have changed alongside the demographic changes.

Methods
A register-based follow-up study of individuals who contacted the nationally centralized gender identity services (GIS) in Finland in 1996–2019 (gender dysphoria [GD] group, n = 3665), and 8:1 age and sex-matched population controls (n = 29,292). The year of contacting the GIS was categorized to 5-year intervals (index periods). Psychiatric needs were assessed by specialist-level psychiatric treatment contacts in the Finnish Care Register for Hospital Care in 1994–2019.

Results
The GD group had received many times more specialist-level psychiatric treatment both before and after contacting specialized GIS than had their matched controls. A marked increase over time in psychiatric needs was observed. Among the GD group, relative risk for psychiatric needs after contacting GIS increased from 3.3 among those with the first appointment in GIS during 1996–2000 to 4.6 when the first appointment in GIS was in 2016–2019. When index period and psychiatric treatment before contacting GIS were accounted for, GR patients who had and who had not proceeded to medical GR had an equal risk compared to controls of needing subsequent psychiatric treatment.

Conclusion
Contacting specialized GIS is on the increase and occurs at ever younger ages and with more psychiatric needs. Manifold psychiatric needs persist regardless of medical GR.

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And this:

[Jolly]

So, for the most part they're female and fucking nuts.

Gotcha.

[Copper]

weirdos

[LuFins Dad]

Glad to see that science is catching up with common fvcking sense.

[Klaus]

I don't understand the study.

Of course people with GD are going to have more psychiatric needs than the general population. GD is a condition of the psyche. Isn't that tautological? So what exactly does the study conclude that is not tautological?

[jon-nyc]

I think the activist view is that trans people, in a deep ontological sense, are the opposite sex from that which was assigned at birth determined at meiosis. They would say that this ‘fact’ causes psychological issues, but through transition one can achieve congruence between one’s ’real self’ and one’s body which is medically necessary and psychologically healing.

This finding sort of points to a different idea.

[LuFins Dad]

That’s more than joust the activists point of view. That’s been the medical consensus for years and was supported by two absurd studies using a ridiculously small cohort and that many many problems, not the least of which was it was a self reporting survey. The findings supported the idea that social transition and (even more importantly) medical transition was necessary to save trans kids lives. This is why Doctors started telling parents “would you prefer a dead daughter or a living son?” and why school districts have felt justified in socially transitioning kids without parental consent or even consultation. It was settled science!

I hope the upcoming lawsuits ruin these asshats, and I hope that we eventually start looking at criminal charges.