Posted on 04/11/2020 6:58:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Depression, suicidal thoughts and self-injury are common among U.S. transgender teens, new research shows.
The study also found that hormone therapy leads to significant improvements in gender dysphoria -- the feeling of being uncomfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth.
For the study, the researchers analyzed the medical records of 158 transgender teens treated at a pediatric endocrinology clinic between 2014 and 2019.
The patients included 107 affirmed males (female to male), 47 affirmed females (male to female), and four who considered themselves non-binary. Affirmed gender is an individual's declared gender identity.
Overall, 78.5 percent had a mental health condition, with depression the most common (66.5 percent). Suicidal thoughts were more common among affirmed males (70 percent) than among affirmed females (49 percent), the study found.
In addition, self-injuring (cutting) was more common among affirmed males (56 percent) than among affirmed females (25.5 percent).
On average, both affirmed males and affirmed females began hormone treatment between age 15 and 16. Both groups reported significantly lower gender dysphoria after starting hormonal treatment.
The study was published in a special supplemental section of the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
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Being unwilling or unable to accept reality does that to people.
... I had to fight to keep from getting an erection every time I saw/talked to a pretty girl.
And be sure they knew it, and used your “struggle” to their advantage. And the world keeps turning around. The little girls have been planning for this since age... 4, sometimes earlier. The boys have no idea what hit them.
I’d ask where the parents are but I suspect broken homes have a lot to do with this and the remaining “parent” wants to be the Facebook and local cause celebrity with the hip/unique transgender teen.
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No it is not that. Schools, the government, and social workers own the kids. Have for over 30 years since it was determined by courts that schools could take kids to have abortions and other procedures without parental consent.
So parents really do not have control of the children in any way! The kids do what they are told and the common culture and the schools are telling them that this is the best way to behave. Kids really do what they are told.
If the Diagnosis is anything but what they have labeled, categorized, and arrogantly decided. You are chastised criticized and your career could be ruined for thinking it could be anything else. It is no longer a mental health issue because they have made it the new normal and they are convincing young people we are the enemy and they are here to help. Much like convincing young women that abortion is a way for women to regain their independence and freedom that was taken from them under the guise of womens health. Personal Responsibility is frowned upon
There are no transgender teens. There are no transgender people period. Never have been; never will be. There are, and have always been confused people, and evidently, in spite of whatever letters follow their names, there will continue to be sad, deluded people who decide to wage an ersatz war on the very structure of the Universe, starting with their own bodies.
This should not be a surprise to anyone. Those who live a pretend life, who live a lie; already have psychiatric problems that only get worse.
Those parents who promote their children to live a lie are most despicable persons known to mankind. There is a Biblical passage that describes the kind of death those who cause their children to live the transgender lie will endure.
My middle child has non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia, an incurable genetic defect of the endocrine system. There are 108 variants of this condition. For her, it resulted in hyperandrogenism, gender dysphoria, and a severe, unshakable depression.
She will not need to transition; her body is masculinizing naturally. Her system produces an inordinate excess of free floating adrenal androgens that attach to the adrenal receptors in her brain, where they are recognized as testosterone.
My youngest son has a different variant. For him it resulted in premature bone maturation and infertility.
All children in the US are tested for congenital adrenal hyperplasia at birth because it can impair the body’s ability to thrive. NCCAH emerges during puberty and is not commonly known. My husband and I spent thousands on doctors trying to figure out what was happening to our daughter and to get her help. When we realized our youngest had stopped growing at 13, I had him tested, too.
Women who suffer from postpartum depression have a jacked up endocrine system.
Are there special snowflakes out there doing it for attention? I’m sure there are and the system is failing them.
My kid is not one of them. There is a lot more to this than meets the eye. Instead of derision, these kids need your prayers because only God can help them.
One would expect that in a community that is, by their own definition, mentally ill.
The absurdity.
Meanwhile they feel better because they’re more like they want to be...but still screwed up and they know it.
Bottom line here is normal sane people,e who call it for what it is, are disParaged for doing so. And blamed for the screwiness and suicidal thoughts because they are “bullies”.
Don’t blAme the absurd behavior, blAme the people who call it.
Wrong. See post 27.
Who is surprised by this. They are brainwashed to go against God and nature. No wonder they are confused and depressed. It is inevitable. Also, it is sad. So avoidable. Commie lliberals destroy everything they touch.
This is Gods way of telling them to be what I made you and stop being stupid...
Maybe responsible adults should be actually trying to help these obviously disturbed youth instead of celebrating and partaking in their delusion.
I was reading Douglas Murray’s new book, “The Madness of Crowds” and he has a significant chapter on transgenderism. Originally people had to jump through several hoops before they could get surgery. They had to undergo psychological counseling, demonstrate a desire to transition has lasted a period of years, take hormones and live for years as the target sex.
Today children as young as three or four are getting hormone treatment. The head of a major transgender clinic in Los Angeles, a female physician married to a transgender man, argues that counseling is unnecessary. She stated that no one requires counseling before kids gets insulin so it’s not necessary for hormones which can cause infertility among other life-changing effects. She claims to have treated over 1k kids and only one transitioned back (though it said nothing about those who regretted it). That woman is pure evil. Oh, and she has a financial interest in the company that makes therapeutic testosterone. Very disturbing information.
https://people.com/music/jackie-evancho-isolates-sister-juliet-parents-divorcing-new-partners/
>>> Probably self hatred and depression push teens toward the latest Transgender fads. <<<
45 years ago teens were pushed to become “Moonies”.
Old research shows that too. Maybe it's because they are so messed up inside. And how much did the waste of money cost?
Wow....now there's a deep thinker.....
Don’t forget rappers.
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