Trans people's mental health problems soar after sex change, Finnish study finds
A Finnish study reveals that mental health problems spike after sex reassignment. An analysis of the contradictions and the data that official science o
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Sens change sends mental health problems soaring: what the new Finnish study says
A study published in the journal Acta Paediatrica, which analysed data from adolescents and young adults who contacted gender clinics in Finland between 1996 and 2019, concludes that those who underwent sens reassignment experienced a marked deterioration in their mental health. The research, reported by The Objective, contradicts the official narrative that medical transition is the solution to gender dysphoria.
What does science say about the psychological effects of transition?
The Finnish study is not the first to point to this trend. Data from other countries had already suggested that suicide and depression rates after transition are alarmingly high. In the discussion thread, it is mentioned that more than 50% of men who undergo orchiectomy end up committing suicide. Although the figure may be debatable, the consensus among critics is that surgery and hormones do not resolve the underlying distress, and often make it worse.
One line of analysis holds that medical transition is an impossible solution: someone who seeks to become something they are not, upon achieving it, is confronted with emptiness and irreversibility. Others point to autogynephilia as an explanation for many cases in men, and to the indoctrination of minors by narcissistic parents or ideologies that deny biology.
The contradiction of the social construct
It is paradoxical that the same movement which argues that gender is a social construct ends up resorting to hormones and the scalpel to adjust the body to gender stereotypes. If gender is a cultural invention, why mutilate the body? This contradiction does not go unnoticed among analysts of the debate, who see transition as a caricature of the opposite sens, not a liberation.
The politics behind the science
The WHO's 2019 decision to remove transsenstrans from its catalogue of mental illnesses is presented by some as an achievement against stigma, but critics point out that it was a political decision, not a scientific one. The psychiatrists who voted for the change themselves acknowledged that it was about reducing stigma, not about changing the evidence. This opens the door to studies showing negative results being ignored or censored.
The case of the Olot care home worker: an extreme example
The debate also mentions the case of the care home worker from Olot, in Spain, convicted of murdering 11 elderly people, who began a sens change in prison and was transferred to the women's unit. Although extreme, this case illustrates how gender ideology can be instrumentalised to evade consequences, generating deep scepticism about the sincerity of some transitions.
The question that remains in the air is: how many of those who transition actually improve their lives? The data from the Finnish study and clinical experience suggest the answer is far less optimistic than what is widely claimed.
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A study published in the journal Acta Paediatrica, which analysed data from adolescents and young adults who contacted gender clinics in Finland between 1996 and 2019, concludes that those who underwent sens reassignment experienced a marked deterioration in their mental health. The research, reported by The Objective, contradicts the official narrative that medical transition is the solution to gender dysphoria.
What does science say about the psychological effects of transition?
The Finnish study is not the first to point to this trend. Data from other countries had already suggested that suicide and depression rates after transition are alarmingly high. In the discussion thread, it is mentioned that more than 50% of men who undergo orchiectomy end up committing suicide. Although the figure may be debatable, the consensus among critics is that surgery and hormones do not resolve the underlying distress, and often make it worse.
One line of analysis holds that medical transition is an impossible solution: someone who seeks to become something they are not, upon achieving it, is confronted with emptiness and irreversibility. Others point to autogynephilia as an explanation for many cases in men, and to the indoctrination of minors by narcissistic parents or ideologies that deny biology.
The contradiction of the social construct
It is paradoxical that the same movement which argues that gender is a social construct ends up resorting to hormones and the scalpel to adjust the body to gender stereotypes. If gender is a cultural invention, why mutilate the body? This contradiction does not go unnoticed among analysts of the debate, who see transition as a caricature of the opposite sens, not a liberation.
The politics behind the science
The WHO's 2019 decision to remove transsenstrans from its catalogue of mental illnesses is presented by some as an achievement against stigma, but critics point out that it was a political decision, not a scientific one. The psychiatrists who voted for the change themselves acknowledged that it was about reducing stigma, not about changing the evidence. This opens the door to studies showing negative results being ignored or censored.
The case of the Olot care home worker: an extreme example
The debate also mentions the case of the care home worker from Olot, in Spain, convicted of murdering 11 elderly people, who began a sens change in prison and was transferred to the women's unit. Although extreme, this case illustrates how gender ideology can be instrumentalised to evade consequences, generating deep scepticism about the sincerity of some transitions.
The question that remains in the air is: how many of those who transition actually improve their lives? The data from the Finnish study and clinical experience suggest the answer is far less optimistic than what is widely claimed.
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