Adolescents with gender dysphoria are more likely to have psychiatric problems – and gender reassignment medical treatments tend to make things worse, not better – results of an extensive, decades-long, peer reviewed study in Finland reveal.
The study, published in the April edition of Acta Paediatrica, a monthly journal for pediatric medicine, examined the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among adolescents and young adults referred between 1996 and 2019 to Finland’s Gender Identity Services and how that that prevalence changed in the years after receiving treatment.
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