Undergoing gender transition treatment did not appear to be associated with a long-term resolution of eating disorders among a population of Finnish youth, according to a new study.
The study calls into question previous scholarship that has suggested that prescribing cross-sex hormones to youths experiencing gender dysphoria will help treat eating disorders, such as anorexia or bulimia, among them.
The paper, which was published recently by the European Journal of Developmental Psychology, is one of a slew out of Finnish research team that over the past decade have collectively called into question the presumption that gender-transition interventions are widely beneficial to youths attending gender clinics.
One of the coauthors of the eating disorder paper, Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a psychiatrist at Tampere University in Finland, was tasked with founding one of the nation’s two youth gender clinics in 2011. After she observed that the patient population’s outcomes were not…
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