The vast majority of young people who identify as transgender will outgrow their diagnosis within five years, according to a large-scale, multi-year study. Researchers tracked all children and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period and found that the vast majority of transgender people suffered from at least one other mental illness.
Germany’s Central Statutory Health Insurance Institute reviewed all medical billing records from the country’s healthcare providers between 2013 and 2022 for insured people between the ages of 5 and 24 who were diagnosed with gender identity disorder.
The researchers then combed through the data to identify trends in the number of children and adolescents diagnosed with transgenderism, including prevalence, demographics and the duration of those struggling with gender identity.
Two-thirds of young people with a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria will no longer identify with the opposite sex within five years. The researchers found that overall, 63.6 percent of transgender children and adolescents gave up a clinically confirmed gender diagnosis, and “only 36.4 percent received a confirmed gender diagnosis.” [gender identity disorder] Diagnosis five years later.
Experts have found that most people who identify as transgender cease their transgender activities during this time. The group most likely to change their minds were women aged 15 to 19, with 72.7% giving up. But the majority (50.3%) of young men who became aware of their transgender identity in adulthood (men aged 20-24) also stopped transitioning within five years.
Likewise, nearly three-quarters of transgender young people (72.4%) suffer from at least one other mental illness.
Transgender young people are most likely to suffer from depression – the vast majority of whom are female (57.5%), and about half who are male (49.3% female) – as well as “anxiety disorder (23.5%/34.0%), emotional instability” Personality” borderline disorder (12.1%/17.6%), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (12.7%/12.6%) and post-traumatic stress disorder (9.9%/13.6%).
“Concerning psychiatric comorbidity, our results are consistent with the literature, at least for depression,” they note.
The number of young people suffering from gender identity disorder has increased by 780%. While they note that this increase is partly due to the way the disorder is coded, correcting for this still shows a nearly threefold increase (289%) in transgender diagnoses.
They point to other studies showing similar increases in the number of doctors identifying young people as transgender, from 280% to an incredible 1,019%.
They noted that “in almost all years, the age group with the highest incidence of ‘transgender-related diagnoses’ was female adolescents aged 15 to 19 years.”
Researchers say the reasons for this surge could range from “an actual increase in prevalence,” “increased awareness, reduced stigma,” to “social contagion” or “overdiagnosis.”
“Further investigation into the reasons for the low diagnostic persistence and observed increased prevalence is needed,” the researchers concluded. “At the same time, the stability of diagnoses and concomitant psychiatric disorders should be taken into account when recommending initiation of sex reassignment treatment during adolescence. High prevalence.”
These results are tracked with verifiable expert data pouring in from around the world. Earlier this year, a team of Dutch researchers came to almost the same conclusion.
After reviewing the records of 2,772 teenagers aged 11-26 in the Netherlands, they found that the quit rate was 64%. During this time, young people were almost ten times more likely to feel good about their birth gender, the study reports.
They found that “gender dissatisfaction, although relatively common in early adolescence, generally decreases with age and appears to be associated with poorer self-concept and mental health across development.”
Other studies have found that transgender or non-binary people are six times more likely to be diagnosed with autism. Jamie Reid, a pediatric transgender facility whistleblower, revealed that “almost all the children who come here have very serious mental health problems.” She singled out autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, trauma, Post-stress syndrome, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and eating disorders.
These studies, combined with increasingly inadequate “standards of care” for transgender people based on low-quality research and developed by trans activists, have led many countries to reconsider the way therapists deal with gender dysphoria.
The current affirmation model in the United States holds that health care professionals should affirm anyone who presents as transgender and start that adult or child on a path to “gender-affirming care,” which may include potential puberty blockers, Cross-sex hormone injections and gender reassignment surgery to remove healthy breasts and reproductive organs.
But Britain’s groundbreaking Cass review found “very weak evidence” supporting the standards. Leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the leading medical organization promoting gender dysphoria diagnoses, similarly undermine the affirmative model.
Increasingly, medical professionals are defying the trends of their peers, bravely facing professional ostracism, and speaking out against the current consensus. “Transitional affirmation has not been proven to be safe or effective in the long term,” Dr. Andre Van Maul, who represents the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Christian Medical and Dental Association and the American College of Medical Ethics, said earlier this week .
“It does not reduce suicide rates. It does not repair mental health problems or trauma. Minors cannot give true informed consent. Children’s brains are developing and immature. Their minds change often. They are prone to risk-taking and vulnerable to peer pressure effects, and without understanding the long-term consequences. Therefore, he argued, “denial of provision of gender transition procedures or so-called gender-affirming health care is non-discriminatory and professionally and scientifically appropriate. “
The peer-reviewed Deutsches Arzteblatt International will publish the English text of the paper, titled “Gender identity disorder among young people in Germany: Prevalence and trends 2013-2022.” National routine insurance data analyzed over two weeks. You can read the original German text here.
This article originally appeared in The Washington Stand.
This article originally appeared in Western Daily News.
