Indicators of Major Psychiatric Problems Didn't Improve After Youth Gender-Transition Treatment In Finland—They Rose
The study, which was based on comprehensive nationalized health data and included control groups, appears to call into question the claim that such treatment is broadly beneficial to mental health.
A large study of health data on Finnish youths who sought care from gender clinics has found evidence that its authors suggest challenges the prevailing claim that gender-transition interventions are tied to improvements in mental health. The study found that the use of specialist psychiatric care—a general, if imperfect, indication of serious mental health problems—increased dramatically among those adolescents and young adults who underwent gender-transition interventions.
Among such youths, the proportion who had appointments with specialist psychiatrists prior to attending the gender clinic, compared with the proportion who had such appointments during later years, surged: among natal males, from 10 percent to 61 percent; and among natal females, from 22 percent to 55 percent.
The study, published Saturday in Acta Paediatrica, included data on nearly 2,100 Finnish people who first sought care from a gender clinic before age 23 between 1996 and 2019. Thirty-eight percent …
