”Transgender surgeries don't solve patients' psychological problems, Finnish study finds”

Oh, really ?!?

The study encourages “cautious evaluation” of sex reassignment procedures.

BY DARLENE MCCORMICK SANCHEZ - December 28, 2023 06:17

A recent Finnish study showed that the psychological problems of people undergoing medically assisted gender transition persist despite “treatment”.

The study shows that the need for psychiatric care is greater for people undergoing gender transition than compared to a control group, even after a possible surgical operation.

“They exhibit significantly more common psychiatric needs than their matched controls, even when medical gender reassignment interventions are performed,” according to the study.

The study results indicate that more and more people are seeking treatment for cases of gender dysphoria and that this is occurring at younger ages, with a marked increase in female patients.

Many mental health and pediatric organizations advocate for what is called affirming care, which involves moving in the direction of a desired medical transition in order to alleviate suicidal tendencies.

Professionals often respond brutally to the objections of patients' parents, telling them that it is better to have a transgender child than a dead child.

Dr. Alan Hopewell, a neuropsychologist who has treated people with gender dysphoria early in his career, told The Epoch Times that this study is robust, and shows that transgender people generally have mental health problems. underlying conditions that do not improve with medical transition.

“This study confirms that you wouldn't want to change your sex if you didn't have a mental problem,” he said. “And the underlying mental problems have not yet been resolved,” he added.

This sentiment is echoed by Dr. Az Hakeem, a London psychiatrist, who told The Epoch Times that a person who is unclear about their gender identity is likely to think there is a difference between sex and gender, particularly in light of the current climate of gender affirmation.

“This is a false solution to a different problem,” said Dr Hakeem, author of a book on transgenderism, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and honorary associate professor at the University's School of Medicine. University College London.

Dr. Hopewell says the transgender patients he saw in the 1970s often traveled to Mexico to receive procedures they were denied in the United States.

According to him, patients suffering from gender dysphoria believe that changing their body will solve their problems. They may try hormones but continue to have problems, so they take more drastic measures, such as removing breasts or adding artificial genitals.

And what happens is they get to the end of the road, where there's nothing left to do,” he says. “They realize that they are still not okay and that they will never be a real woman or a real man. »

He cites a Swedish study carried out over 30 years, which indicates that the suicide rate increases after gender reassignment surgery.

The study followed 324 people who underwent bridging surgery in Sweden between 1972 and 2003. The study assessed mortality, morbidity and crime rates after the operation until 2003.

Researchers explain that people who undergo surgical or hormonal transition have a higher mortality rate, particularly from suicide, and that people who transition have an increased risk of suicide attempts and psychiatric care in a hospital setting.

Yet transition advocates point out that the study does not claim that gender reassignment surgery causes increased morbidity and mortality. According to them, the results could have been worse if the participants had not undergone sex reassignment.

According to Dr. Hopewell, studies like the one conducted in Finland have no chance of being conducted in the United States because transgender activism has silenced scientific research.

Anyone who attempted a similar study in the United States would likely be attacked or have their career destroyed, Dr. Hopewell said.

He sees a parallel with the “Sauber Reinigung” tactic used in Nazi Germany to eliminate “undesirable” educators and teachers from education systems.

The authors of the Finnish study recommend "cautious assessment" of the appropriateness of medical sex reassignment procedures and to consider other treatment needs that may be more urgent.

The study included 3,665 people with gender dysphoria who contacted nationally centralized gender identity services in Finland between 1996 and 2019. These people were compared to a control group of 29,292 people matched according to age and sex.

Psychiatric needs were assessed by specialist psychiatric treatment contacts in the Finnish Inpatient Care Register from 1994 to 2019.

Additionally, the study indicates that people who used gender treatment in the 1990s and 2000s had fewer psychiatric problems than those currently seeking to transition.

The study also concluded that the number of people contacting gender services has increased significantly since the 1990s, with increasingly younger ages. At the same time, their need for psychiatric treatment has increased.

Original article :

https://www.epochtimes.fr/selon-une-etude-finlandaise-les-interventions-chirurgicales-pour-transgenres-ne-resolvent-pas-les-problemes-psychologiques-des-patients-2502803.html