A major new study has confirmed that rates of depression and suicide increase in people after they undergo irreversible transgender surgery.
The study debunks the far-left narrative that so-called “transition” procedures help people who are suffering from gender confusion.
The findings of the study were published in the Oxford Journal of Sexual Medicine.
The researchers found that undergoing so-called “sex change” surgery does not help to reduce depression rates among the gender dysphoric.
However, the study did find that the surgery substantially increased rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders.
Males who underwent transgender surgery had a depression rate of 25.4 percent.
This was compared to 11.5 percent in those who did not have surgery.
Likewise, females who underwent surgery had a depression rate of 22.9 percent, compared to 14.6 percent in those who did not.
The study notes that males undergoing “feminizing” surgeries demonstrated a particularly high risk for depression and substance use disorders.
“From 107,583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery,” the researchers found.
Yet, despite their finding, the researchers refused to speak against the use of so-called “sex-change” surgery.
Rather than concluding that so-called “gender affirming” surgery is a dangerous, unnecessary practice that should be discontinued because it puts patients’ lives at risk, the researchers instead suggest that that their findings show a need for “gender-sensitive mental health support following gender-affirming surgery to address post-surgical psychological risks.”
Nevertheless, the study directly conflicts with the narrative that “gender transition” procedures are the only answer for the gender-confused.
A significant body of evidence now shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80 percent of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence.
“Transition” procedures fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide.
In fact, they even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Unfortunately, doctors convince people that they can “change” their gender and doing so will solve all their problems.
However, once they have undergone irreversible surgery and realize they didn’t “change gender” and their problems still exist, they are then faced with the reality that they are now permanently disfigured.
Another peer-reviewed study published last year provided unequivocal evidence that those who undergo so-called “gender reassignment” surgery put themselves at a vastly increased risk of suicide.
The risk of suicide for post-surgery transgenders is a staggering 12 times that of the general population, the study found.
The major study, “involving 56 United States healthcare organizations and over 90 million patients,” analyzed data collected over a 20-year period, from February 2003 to February 2023.
The researchers examined “suicide attempts, death, self-harm, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within five years of the index event.”
The study compared the experiences of persons aged 18-60 who visited hospital emergency rooms and who had previously undergone “transition” surgery with those who visited emergency rooms without having undergone transgender surgery.
It found that a stunning 3.47 percent of those who had surgically “transitioned” were treated for suicide attempts, versus 0.29 percent for non-“transitioned” patients.
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