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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Most children and teenagers with gender dysphoria grow out of it on their own.

Do you have statistics to back this up?

Giving children and teens easy access to strong drugs that will affect their whole future life

Do puberty blockers have this effect?

Gender dysphoria rarely comes alone, usually it’s comorbid with a bunch of other psychological issues. Then transition is often presented as the one treatment that will fix everything. It often fails to do that.

Any more statistics?

No other mental health issue has that kind of political clout and rigid ideology attached to it. The political activism has glued itself to radical ideas.

Scientific research into trans issues has become difficult to conduct, because if you have the „wrong“ results, you might not have a career and be labeled transphobic. In the end it’s trans people themselves who suffer the most from this.

I would agree that this is something that we should be concerned about. I think a recent example was the Cass report in the UK.

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Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2147/AHMT.S135432

Evidence from the 10 available

prospective follow-up studies from childhood to adolescence

(reviewed in the study by Ristori and Steensma28) indicates

that for \~80% of children who meet the criteria for GDC,

the GD recedes with puberty

Puberty blockers are a strong change in your life and a severe intrusion into the natural development of a body. Instead of going through puberty like most other kids, the child will be behind in their physical development by years. That can lead to social and psychological problems of course.

There’s generally not much quality research into the long term effects, as you can read repeatedly in [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker#Research].

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- Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s very enlightening and thought-provoking material. The detransition figures about people being abandoned is disturbing. Thank you for this.
  
  As for the mental health issues- some could argue that the Gender Dysphoria causes these issues, and that these issues are side effects of Gender Dysphoria. So I’m not too sure if existing mental health issues invalidates gender dysphoria.
  
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  - Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Differential diagnosis for mental health issues is never easy. One mental health issue can easily cause others. The major difference is that gender and being trans can become a big part of one’s identity. You don’t get that to that extent with other disorders.
    
    Especially the overlap with autism is interesting and not obviouS. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/crossing-boundaries-unraveling-the-link-between-gender-dysphoria-and-autism/DB33E9208EF32A46C4AE83D9B673F498
    
    Preliminary findings indicate that individuals with ASD may experience higher rates of gender dysphoria compared to the general population. Factors such as social communication difficulties, rigid thinking patterns, and heightened sensitivity to social norms appear to influence the experience of gender identity. Qualitative data reveal that many individuals navigate significant challenges in accessing appropriate support and validation, often feeling marginalized within both the autistic and gender-diverse communities.
    
    Seek out interviews with detransitioners and people who used to work in gender affirming care, if you want to learn about Trans issues from someone besides activists.
    
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    Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I am autistic and used to be led into believing I was non binary by a friend group. Thankfully I am out of that group. Ironically, they were the most intolerant people I knew (I wouldn’t have cared if they civilly disagreed with me on some issues, but they wouldn’t.) Meanwhile the evangelical church my family had belonged to, that I went to when I was younger, welcomed me back in with open arms despite civilly disagreeing with my identity and view on gender at the time.
    
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