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Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”
It should come as no surprise that a landmark study from Finland suggests the exact opposite: Fins under 23 who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria proved more likely to receive specialist-level psychiatric treatment, both before and more than two years after the first referral to a gender clinic—and “gender-affirming care” made things far worse.
Those who underwent medical interventions after such referrals proved even more likely to need specialist-level psychiatric help.
(Ute’s note: specialist help means the patient was suicidal some or most of the time in this follow up period after supposedly “life saving” wrong sex hormones and surgeries.)
Working with the Finnish government, Statistics Finland, and a hospital with one of the country’s two gender clinics, the study analyzed eight groups: men and women with gender dysphoria who did not undergo sex-rejecting procedures; men and women with gender dysphoria who did undergo such procedures; and men and women from the general public, matched by birth year and municipality to each patient in the other groups.
(Ute’s note: this means there was an age-matched control group. Finland was known decades ago, for a high rate of suicide, and their psychiatric care system reflects comprehensive protocols developed to deal with the situation.)
The study used the 11-digit personal identification number that each Finnish resident receives to track medical data and psychiatric visits.
The study found that 61.7% of the gender-dysphoric young people received specialist-level psychiatric treatment more than two years after being referred to a gender clinic, while only 14.6% of the control group received such treatment in a comparable time period.
These young people also proved more likely to receive psychiatric treatment before their gender dysphoria diagnosis (45.7% compared to 15.0% of the control group).
(Ute’s note: this reflects the surge in the social contagion of “trans identification.”)
The study presents a population in crisis: nearly 50% of the gender-dysphoric youth had visited a psychiatric specialist more than 25 times in their lifetimes, compared to 11% of their peers.
(Ute’s note: This is because the national health care has a standard set of protocols in which talk therapy is almost unlimited and residential psychiatric placements occur for patients who have already had a great deal of counseling and mental health help outside of a psychiatric hospital. It is unfortunate that their system was apparently not explained in the study. The mental health care system in Finland is very comprehensive.)
(Ute’s note: while I agree that these genital surgeries are grotesque, this is not a word I would use. I would say these dangerous and unsuccessful sex rejection surgeries result in a high propensity for serious medical emergencies in the years after, and the pain management involved is substantial.)
When a doctor diagnoses a minor with “gender dysphoria”—the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender opposite one’s sex—the doctor may go on to prescribe “puberty blockers” (drugs that law enforcement uses to chemically castrate sex offenders), cross-sex hormones (which often cause permanent interventions in a person’s body to make them appear as the opposite sex), or surgeries to remove breasts or genitals.
While opponents of “gender-affirming care” should find ourselves emboldened by these results, we should also respond with compassion to those who are struggling.
The Supreme Court recently struck down part of a Colorado law preventing mainstream patient-directed talk therapy from addressing the potential underlying causes of gender dysphoria, but activists are already working on other ways to demonize and outlaw this kind of therapy.
(Ute’s note: in this decision the justices voted 8-1 for free speech, with Katanji Brown Jackson writing her committee of one dissent.)
(Ute’s note: I will never stop beating the drum of walking, gardening, mind body movement such as Primal Fitness by the Tapp Brothers for males and my movements for wellness series at my YouTube channel, Trans Widow Ute Heggen. These kids are sleep deprived, and have terrible schedules in which they are not out in nature for enough hours a day.)
If we want to actually help people who suffer from gender dysphoria, we must champion therapy that helps them come to terms with their biology, rather than a medicalization that engages in experiments aimed at erasing it.
(Ute’s conclusion: This study hit the ball out of the park. It is already mischaracterized by trans lobbyists. Like the Swedish study of death records, it proves in a statistically significant way that the long term follow up has been neglected and intentionally obscured. Those who have sunk cost fallacy will be unable to accept the logic until there are dozens of studies showing this. We do not have the record keeping Sweden and Finland have. This is all encouraging, but the pushback is going to continue to be shrill, deceptive and shouty.)
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