Gender clinics ignore key studies

Medical treatment offers no benefit in terms of mental well-being and suicidality

Gender clinics prefer medical treatment, arguing that waiting longer is more dangerous and damaging, and mentioning suicide and mental wellbeing. In doing so, they are guilty of ignoring important studies.

• On January 2, 2023, there was the publication, “The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine“, focuses on the two Dutch studies that gave rise to “gender-affirmative” care for youth worldwide. The authors convincingly demonstrate that rather than “solid prospective research” the Dutch research suffers from profound, previously unrecognized problems. These problems range from erroneously concluding that gender dysphoria disappeared as a result of “gender-affirmative treatment,” to reporting only the best-case scenario outcomes and failing to properly examine the risks, despite the fact that a significant proportion of the treated sample experienced adverse effects.
• The American Journal of Psychiatry (August 2020) published an extraordinary correction to a Karolinska Institute publication (Bränström & Pachankis 2019), which claimed to be the first to provide evidence of the long-term mental health benefits of biomedical treatment for adults. After correction, it was concluded that neither hormones nor surgery provide any benefit in terms of long-term mental health and suicidality. This is the largest objective study of its kind to date with fully recorded patient health data.
• A rigorous and extensive Finnish study (February 2024) showed that gender-affirming medical interventions do not reduce the risk of suicide (All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialized gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study). For more information: Alarming but false – The “transition or suicide” story is about politics, not evidence.
• A study (Suicide by Clinic-Referred Transgender Adolescents in the United Kingdom – January 18, 2022) from one of the world’s largest pediatric gender clinics, the suicide rate among trans-identified youth was estimated at 0.03% over a 10-year period, which is comparable to young people who register for care with psychological problems.
• There is even a Swedish study (Dhejne 2011) that looked at the general population, which found that those who had transitioned committed suicide 19 times more than controls corresponding to the general population. This tells us that a transition does not prevent suicide.