Youth Going Through Gender Transition Are More At Risk Of Psychiatric Issues

[Akar]

You can slander me all you want. I don't care. It doesn't hurt me. I'm just wondering who the next person is going to be that you go off on.

It’s not an insult; it’s the medical description you love to cite so much. Now that it’s applied to you, you don't like it?


-Giammarco

 

[QuickTwist]

It’s not an insult; it’s the medical description you love to cite so much. Now that it’s applied to you, you don't like it?


-Giammarco

You say I am being illogical but the only way I can know this is because you told me so. You haven't actually made any points against what I have said. You've just done a bunch of ad homs.

 

[Akar]

You say I am being illogical but the only way I can know this is because you told me so. You haven't actually made any points against what I have said. You've just done a bunch of ad homs.

You are unable to contextualize anything I ask you, so how can you expect me to respond? You make logical leaps that make no sense. If you knew that British policy on the matter doesn't work, then you knew exactly what you were doing. Then you played the victim card, then the Bible verses.

It's not that others don't understand you because you're 'special,' it's because nothing you say makes any sense. Is it clear to you now?

-Giammarco

 

[Wyote]

It's funny how transgender care doesn't fall under the preservation of life loophole
And yet basically anything else could easily get bucketed there if it's needed
That's really all this comes down to, not believing that it's about preservation of life
because of an inability to empathize with the legitimate severity of it
Again like anything, just simple ignorance

 

[Faye]

Show me a peer reviewed article and we will talk.

Here you go:
Tordoff et al. (2022) – JAMA Network Open

• “Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care”
• Design: Prospective cohort (n = 104 youth, ages 13–20)
• Findings:
  • Gender-affirming care (puberty blockers or hormones) was associated with:
    • 60% lower odds of depression
    • 73% lower odds of suicidality over 12 months

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2789423

Olson et al. (2024) – JAMA Pediatrics

• “Levels of Satisfaction and Regret With Gender-Affirming Medical Care in Adolescence”
• Findings:
  • High levels of satisfaction among youth receiving care
  • Low rates of regret reported
    
    

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2825195

 

[Faye]

And a few more:
Rew et al. (2021) – Child and Adolescent Mental Health

• “Puberty blockers for transgender and gender diverse youth: a critical review”
• Type: Peer-reviewed literature review
• Conclusion:
  • Puberty blockers are part of gender-affirming care used to manage gender dysphoria
  • Evidence suggests psychological benefits, though more long-term data is needed

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Systematic Review (2023) – multiple databases (Medline, Embase, etc.)

• “Puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis”
• Findings:
  • Summarizes available evidence on psychological and physical outcomes
  • Indicates measurable effects on mental health and dysphoria, though certainty varies
    
    

Puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis - PMC

Gender dysphoria (GD) refers to the psychological distress associated with the incongruence between one’s sex and one’s gender identity. To manage GD, individuals may delay the development of primary and secondary sex characteristics with the use of ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Klein et al. (2022) – peer-reviewed clinical journal

• “Puberty Suppression in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents: Timely Care for Optimal Outcomes”
• Key points:
  • Puberty suppression can reduce distress from unwanted puberty
  • Early intervention is discussed as beneficial for some patients

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1089/trgh.2020.0139

 

[Faye]

The typical process is to provide puberty blockers for a long period of evaluation, then if deemed appropriate, start the transgender minor on hormones congruent with their gender identity, usually after a couple years or so. This can prevent depression and suicidality and greatly increase quality of life.

If they are denied all gender affirming care, then they can end up with lifelong depression (like I have) or worse. Dysphoria is miserable to live with. I literally wake up every single day and think about this, wishing I had been able to go on puberty blockers and take estrogen when I was a teenager. Anyone who has been on this forum for a long period of time and who has seen my old blogs knows just how miserable I've been, especially my first blog back before my transition since I joined INFJs when I was 19. That misery could have been prevented.

I would encourage everyone to look into the studies posted above, look at what actual medical organizations are saying (which I posted earlier), and learn about the actual process involved with puberty blockers. If someone goes on puberty blockers and it turns out that transition isn't the best option for them, they can just go off of the puberty blockers and continue on with puberty of their birth assigned gender.

There is an extreme amount of misinformation and hostile actors from conservative and other hate groups who just plain hate trans people. And I'm disappointed to see people on the forum parroting the bigotry fed to them by those groups, creating a hostile environment for transgender forum users. Reading over this thread, it should be obvious they aren't interested in actual discussion. They just want to punch down on a minority that has been targeted politically because they are ignorant, bigots, maybe religious, idk.

My IMs are open if anyone wants to discuss this more in a civilized manner, but for my own mental health, I can't keep feeding the trolls in this thread. I've left the important information here for others to consider.

 

[Fruiteloop]

I've already talked about the solution at length: treat issues in the mind as issues in the mind and treat issues in the body as issues in the body. There's no need to walk on eggshells to avoid offending people who have the delusion that they are born in the wrong body. Best to help them work through their mental issues rather than affirming them.

I disagree.

If it was just "all in the mind" then what faye said about puberty blockers would not work.

Something is happening in trans persons that cannot be attributed to just "confusion".

It is important to note that what makes a person male or female psychologically is not just ideas otherwise we could program or trick people to be another gender. It must be related to a condition inside them that makes them have gender dysphoria in the first place beginning in childhood.

 

[aeon]

That which is resisted is indicative of the dystonic self, where the nonintegrated shadow which holds the truth of the person is externalized and projected.

Cheers,
Ian