‘Psychiatric morbidity’: New study confirms switching genders deteriorates your mental health
A new study published in the peer-reviewed Acta Paediatrica, a pediatric journal, has delivered a stunning blow to the ideology of transgender activists whose main points include that chemicals or body-mutilating surgeries are needed or else the patient assuredly will seek suicide.
In fact, the study reveals, that, “In some individuals, medical GR (gender reassignment) appears to be linked to deterioration in mental health. Subsequent to medical GR, psychiatric treatment needs appear to increase.”
A report at the Washington Stand confirmed the news as “major damage to the myth that gender reassignment procedures are ‘medically necessary’ for the mental health of young people confused about their bodies.”
Transgender ideology, of course, defies science, in that being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change, no matter the chemicals or mutilating surgeries used.
The study said, “Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up.”
The study, “Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019,” found that those exhibiting psychiatric morbidity among men seeking to become more feminine exploded from 9.8% to 60.7% and for women seeking to be more male 21.6% to 54.5%.
The Stand reported, “Psychiatric morbidity refers to a patient’s other mental health issues, such as depression, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and more.”
Nearly 2,100 patients under age 23 were studied.
As Finland has “nationalized, centralized health care system,” the study is the “total” population of transgender-identifying youth in the country.
The results of the study confirmed “two noteworthy features,” the report said.
“First, adolescents referred to specialist transgender services ‘showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls,’ with 45.7% having mental health issues before referral, compared to 15.0% among the control population. When next measured, two years or more after referral, 61.7% of the gender dysphoric population had mental health issues, compared to only 14.6% of the control population.”
Further, the report noted the proportion of adolescents with mental health issues also increased in absolute terms (by 35%) after referral to specialist transgender services.
The data pointed out that not every adolescent referred to Finnish transgender services followed through with medical procedures, and among those without chemicals or surgeries, “the rates of mental health issues increased by a much smaller amount,” the report said.
The red flag came among those to did get medical gender “reassignment” procedures.
For males, “the number with psychiatric morbidity increased from 16 to 99 (a 518% increase). Among females who received medical gender reassignment treatments, the number with psychiatric morbidity increased from 137 before to 345 after, a 151% increase,” the report said.
The study also revealed that the issues continue into adulthood, and among those studied, 27.6% had more than 100 “contacts to specialist level psychiatric treatment” during their lives.
Another 22% had 25 contacts.
Among those in the control group, 74% had no specialist psychiatric contacts, and only 10% had more than 25.
“The data show that medical transgender interventions may cause more mental health issues, instead of alleviating them,” the report said.
“The considerable severe psychiatric morbidity prior to contacting the GIS, and its increase over time, suggest that for some of these adolescents, GD may be secondary to other mental health challenges,” the authors wrote. “This underscores the need to thoroughly assess and appropriately treat mental disorders among those seeking GR before and after undergoing irreversible medical treatments. Psychiatric needs must be adequately met.”