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Thursday, August 06, 2020

‘Transitioning’ Procedures Don’t Help Mental Health, Dataset Shows

The world’s largest dataset on patients who have undergone sex-reassignment procedures reveals that these procedures do not bring mental health benefits. But that’s not what the authors originally claimed. Or what the media touted.

In October 2019, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a paper titled “Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries: A Total Population Study.” As the title suggests, the paper claimed that after having had sex-reassignment surgeries, a patient was less likely to need mental health treatment.

Well, over the weekend, the editors of the journal and the authors of the paperissued a correction. In the words of the authors, “the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.”

But it’s actually worse than that. The original results already demonstrated no benefits to hormonal transition. That part didn’t need a correction.

So, the bottom line: The largest dataset on sex-reassignment procedures—both hormonal and surgical—reveals that such procedures do not bring the promised mental health benefits.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That they want to 'transition' is already a sign of mental health issues!

Anonymous said...

Transitioning is a lie.

Anonymous said...

Why do you care so much?

Ghee said...

"transitioning" is adding to their mental instability. It's no worse than chopping off a leg or adding a arm.

Anonymous said...

Say what you will but these people are confused frigging nuts.

Anonymous said...

Rachel Levine from Pennsylvania is a classic example of a nutcase.
And he/she is one of those that sent Covid19 patients to nursing homes to murder the residents while taking his/her own mother out of one.