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2.6 KiB
Medical Transition
Medical transition (including sex reassignment surgery) decreases dysphoria, suicide attempts, and improves depression and anxiety.
- Cornell University
- ENORMOUS meta-analysis on transgender people and the effect gender transition has on their mental health
- Of 56 studies, 52 indicated transitioning has a positive effect on the mental health of transgender people and 4 indicated it had mixed or no results.
- ZERO studies indicated gender transitioning has negative results
- This pretty much ends the argument right here.
- Murad et al. 10
- ANOTHER meta-analysis of 28 studies on transition and hormones
- Sex reassignment/hormonal improvements:
- 80% of individuals reported significant improvement in dysphoria
- 78% of individuals reported significant improvement in psychological symptoms
- 72% of individuals reported significant improvement in sexual function
- overall quality of life was found to have increased significantly
- Lower quality evidence, see methodology. Still significant and helpful findings regardless.
- Vries et al. 14
- Longitudinal study on the effectiveness of puberty suppression, hormones, and later sex reassignment surgery on trans individuals in improving mental outcomes
- Unambiguously positive results - results indicate puberty suppression, support of medical professionals & SRS have markedly beneficial outcomes to trans individuals’ mental health and productivity.
- These indicators were “similar to or better than same-age young adults from the general population”
- The Endocrine Society 15
- "A new study has confirmed that transgender youth often have mental health problems and that their depression and anxiety improve greatly with recognition and treatment of gender dysphoria"
- Nobili 18
- Longitudinal meta-analysis which indicates transgender people have a lower quality of life than the general population.
- However, that quality of life raises dramatically with ‘Gender Affirming Treatment’, the nature of which is detailed extensively in-text.