New Study: Trans Kids Are Much More Likely To Suffer Crisis After Transition

Brace yourself for a shock, but pediatric sexual mutilation may not cause happiness.

A study published on April 4 in the Nordic medical journal Acta Paediatrica shows that adolescents who are medically “transitioned” into a new gender identity become far more likely to spiral down into psychological crisis. The paper, “Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study,” uses a feature of Finland’s unique hybrid medical system to track outcomes following pediatric sex change procedures: each citizen has “an 11-digit personal identification number” for medical purposes. Medical care for citizens is closely tracked through a system of databases:

The Finnish Population Information System contains current personal data on all residents. Since 1994, the National Institute for Health and Welfare has maintained the Care Register for Health Care (CRHC), which documents healthcare visits by Finnish residents, including diagnoses, procedures, and medical speciality codes. The Social Insurance Institution (SII) of Finland records prescription medication purchases, while the causes of death register maintained by Statistics Finland documents residents’ causes and times of death.

Researchers used diagnostic and procedural codes to find adolescents who transitioned, then tracked what psychiatric services they needed after their sex change procedures, comparing their need for psychiatric intervention to a control group of adolescents who didn’t receive sex change procedures.

Result: “Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up — rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment.”

Sex change procedures made adolescents much more likely to experience psychological crisis so severe that it required significant professional treatment.

Reactions from people who have closely tracked the “trans kids” debate were predictable:

Among the remarkable findings, the researchers identify a pivotal moment in transgender fetishism. After 2011, they write, “there has been a tenfold increase in the number of referrals” for pediatric sex change treatments. The sudden and dramatic acceleration of hormone treatments and sex change surgeries for minors, including elective mastectomies on healthy breasts and genital surgeries like phalloplasty and vaginoplasty, correlates with a sharp turn toward a more psychological crisis. The growing group of minors who transitioned after the pivotal moment were more likely to need subsequent mental health treatment: “Those referred after 2010 displayed noticeably more psychiatric morbidity than those referred earlier.”

The researchers also note that minors receiving sex change procedures after the 2010/2011 pivot were more likely to have received other forms of psychological treatment before being referred to sex change clinics. “This suggests that increasingly, adolescents with severe psychiatric morbidity are referred to GIS,” they conclude, referring to gender identity services.

In a throwaway line buried deep in the paper and not discussed further, the researchers hint at a cause: “Subsequent morbidity burden may also arise from treatments not meeting the expectations placed on them.”

Put those last two points together, and the implications become clearer: First, children experiencing depression and anxiety are meeting with therapists who suggest that their mental health problems may have an origin in gender dysphoria, and will go away after sex change treatments. But then procedures like vaginoplasty, not addressing the actual causes of the depression and anxiety, deliver a growing sense of helplessness in a mutilated body. Depression, surgical castration and vaginoplasty offered as a treatment, more serious depression. Compare this documented reality to the bizarre media fetishization of wonderfully cheerful trans 4-year-olds:

This study should cause us to apply the brakes to the sick fashion of transing children, even if it makes morally insane leftist psychopaths feel less performatively virtuous.

Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army, and has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at “Tell Me How This Ends,” here.