German study: large majority of people will grow out of transgenderism within five years | The Gateway expert

A large-scale, year-long study shows that the vast majority of young people who identify as transgender will outgrow the diagnosis within five years. Researchers, who followed all children and young adults with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period, found that a similar supermajority of transgender people suffered from at least one other psychological condition.

The Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance in Germany reviewed all medical billing data from national healthcare providers between 2013 and 2022 for insured people between five and 24 years old with a diagnosis of gender identity disorder.

Researchers then sifted through the data to identify trends in the number of children and adolescents diagnosed transgenderismincluding the prevalence, demographics and duration of those struggling with their gender identity.

Two in three young people who are medically diagnosed with gender dysphoria will no longer identify as a member of the opposite sex within five years. Researchers found that a total of 63.6 percent of trans children and adolescents renounced their clinically confirmed gender diagnosis, and that “only 36.4 percent had a confirmed gender diagnosis.” [gender identity disorder] diagnosis after five years.”

Experts found that the majority of all people who identified as transgender came out during that period. The most likely group to change their minds are 15- to 19-year-old women, with 72.7 percent of them quitting. But a majority (50.3 percent) of young men who came to their transgender identity in adulthood (men ages 20 to 24) also stopped doing so within five years.

Similarly, nearly three-quarters of youth who identify as transgender (72.4 percent) had at least one other psychiatric condition.

Trans young people were most likely to suffer from depressive disorders – an outright majority of women (57.5 percent) and about half of men (49.3 percent, women), as well as ‘anxiety disorders’ (23.5 percent/34.0 percent ), emotionally unstable personality disorders of the borderline type (12.1 percent/17.6 percent), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (12.7 percent/12.6 percent) and post-traumatic stress disorder (9.9 percent/13.6 percent) .”

“With regard to psychiatric comorbidities, our results are consistent with the literature, at least for depressive disorders,” they note.

The number of young people with gender identity disorders increased by 780 percent. While they note that some of this increase is due to the way the condition is coded, after adjusting for this, there is still a nearly threefold increase in transgender diagnoses (289 percent).

They pointed out that other studies show a similar increase in numbers doctors identifying young people as transgender, ranging from 280 percent to an incredible 1,019 percent.

“In almost all years, the highest prevalence of ‘transgender-related diagnoses’ was found in the age group of 15- to 19-year-old female adolescents,” they noted.

Researchers say the reason for this spike could range from “real increase in prevalence” and “increased awareness, decreasing stigmatization” to “social contagion” or “overdiagnosis.”

“Further investigation into the reasons for the low persistence of diagnosis and the observed increase in prevalence is needed,” the researchers concluded. “In the meantime, the stability of the diagnosis and the high prevalence of accompanying mental disorders should be taken into account in recommendations for initiating gender reassignment therapy in adolescence.”

These results are followed by verifiable, expert data pouring in from around the world. A team of Dutch researchers came to almost identical conclusions earlier this year.

After examining data from 2,772 adolescents aged 11 to 26 in the Netherlands, they found a discontinuation rate of 64 percent. During that period, young people were almost ten times more likely to feel better about their birth gender than worse. the study reports.

“Gender dissatisfaction, while relatively common during early adolescence, generally declines with age and appears to be associated with poorer self-concept and mental health across development,” they found.

Other studies have found that people who identify as transgender or non-binary do six times as likely being diagnosed with autism than the norm. Whistleblower for children’s transgender facilities Jamie Reed revealed that “almost all the children who came here to the Center showed very serious mental health problems.” She specifically identified autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma, OCD and eating disorders.

The combination of these studies and growing weaknesses in transgender “standards of care,” based on low-quality studies and drafted by transgender activists, have led many countries to reconsider the way healers deal with gender dysphoria.

The current U.S. affirmation model requires health care professionals to affirm anyone who presents as transgender and move that adult or child toward “gender-affirming care,” which includes potentially sterilizing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone injections, and transgender surgeries to remove healthy breasts and reproductive organs.

But the groundbreaking Cass Review in Britain, “remarkably weak evidence” has been found to support these criteria. Leaked files of the main medical group driving gender dysphoria diagnoses, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health similarly undermined the affirmation model.

Bucking the trend among their peers and rebelling against professional exclusion, a growing number of medical experts have spoken out against the current consensus. “Transition confirmation has not been proven to be safe or effective in the long term,” he says Dr. André Van Molwho earlier this week represented the American College of Pediatricians, the Christian Medical and Dental Associations and the American Academy of Medical Ethics.

“It doesn’t reduce suicides. It does not fix mental health issues or trauma. Minors cannot give truly informed consent. Children have developing and immature brains. Their thoughts change often. They are prone to taking risks, they are vulnerable to peer pressure and they do not consider the long-term consequences.” And as such, he argued, “denying gender transition procedures or so-called gender-affirming health care is non-discriminatory and both professionally and scientifically appropriate.”

The peer-reviewed Deutsches Ärzteblatt International will publish the English text of the article, entitled “Gender identity disorders among young people in Germany: prevalence and trends, 2013–2022. An analysis of national routine insurance data,” within two weeks. You can read the German original here.

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