New Study: Trans Kids Are Much More Likely To Suffer Crisis After Transition
Brace yourself for a shock, but pediatric sexual mutilation may not cause happiness.
A study published on April 4 in the Nordic medical journal Acta Paediatrica shows that adolescents who are medically “transitioned” into a new gender identity become far more likely to spiral down into psychological crisis. The paper, “Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study,” uses a feature of Finland’s unique hybrid medical system to track outcomes following pediatric sex change procedures: each citizen has “an 11-digit personal identification number” for medical purposes. Medical care for citizens is closely tracked through a system of databases:
The Finnish Population Information System contains current personal data on all residents. Since 1994, the National Institute for Health and Welfare has maintained the Care Register for Health Care (CRHC), which documents healthcare visits by Finnish residents, including diagnoses, procedures, and medical speciality codes. The Social Insurance Institution (SII) of Finland records prescription medication purchases, while the causes of death register maintained by Statistics Finland documents residents’ causes and times of death.
Researchers used diagnostic and procedural codes to find adolescents who transitioned, then tracked what psychiatric services they needed after their sex change procedures, comparing their need for psychiatric intervention to a control group of adolescents who didn’t receive sex change procedures.
Result: “Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up — rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment.” (Read more from “New Study: Trans Kids Are Much More Likely To Suffer Crisis After Transition” HERE)










