Posted on 03/07/2025 4:40:11 PM PST by grundle
So-called "gender-affirming surgery" could lead to potentially dangerous mental health effects, a new study has found.
Transgender individuals face "heightened psychological distress," including depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation, "partly due to stigma and lack of gender affirmation," as stated in the study, which was published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Researchers from the University of Texas set out to determine the mental health impacts from transgender people who underwent "gender-affirming surgery."
The study focused on 107,583 patients 18 and over with gender dysphoria, some who underwent surgery and others who did not.
They determined rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and substance-use disorders were "significantly higher" among those who underwent surgery, assessed two years later.
Males with surgery had depression rates of 25% compared to males without surgery (11.5%). Anxiety rates among that group were 12.8% compared to 2.6%.
The same differences were seen among females, as those with surgery had 22.9% depression rates compared to 14.6% in the non-surgical group.
Females who underwent surgery also had anxiety rates of 10.5% compared to 7.1% without surgery.
Surgeries that aimed to "feminize individuals" showed "particularly high" rates of depression and substance abuse two years after the procedures, the study found.
"Findings suggest the necessity for gender-sensitive mental health support following gender-affirming surgery to address post-surgical psychological risks," the researchers wrote.
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Oh look a study. About twelve years too late, but mmm kay.
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It took a study to figure this out?
As they say the devil is in the details.
Duh!!!!
There is no credible study in existence that shows “gender affirmation” is helpful. Every credible study ever done shows it’s harmful
The devil is in the dickectomy too...
Of course they don't say "just provide mental health support and skip the surgery because it'll just make it worse."
Good grief, the people had mental problems to begin with. Mutilating their bodies and pumping them full of hormones surely does help things, ya think?
Mutilating a crazy person’s body and pumping them full of unnatural hormones makes them even crazier. Got it.
You don’t say?
Trans surgeries increase risk of mental health conditions, suicidal ideations: study
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4302858/posts https://www.foxnews.com/health/trans-surgeries-increase-risk-mental-health-conditions-suicidal-ideations-study?intcmp=tw_fnc
"Almost all America’s medical authorities support gender-affirming care. But those in Britain, Finland, France, Norway and Sweden, while supporting talking therapy as a first step, have misgivings about the pharmacological and surgical elements of the treatment. The effectiveness and side-effects of the most common treatments are not well understood."
Chicken-egg. Were they mental first or after? Either way, does it matter?
No s**t, Sherlock!
They needed a study to find this out?
Trans people are suffering from mental illness. They need therapy and help to be ok in the body they are in.
IMHO, EVERYONE involved in this “trans” fad is seriously INSANE!
” Trans surgeries increase risk of mental health conditions, suicidal ideations: study”
Trans surgeries are the result of mental illness and cause suicidal ideations
There, fixed it
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