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A huge nine year study done by the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance in Germany revealed most gender dysphoria patients would grow out of the diagnosis within five years. Also found was that most of these patients suffered from more than one psychological condition. Medical records of people between the ages of five and 24 with gender dysphoria were studied between 2013 and 2022.
Study checked trends
The number of children were checked, prevalence, demographics, and duration of the disorder. Two out of three will no longer identify with the opposite sex within about five years.
Well over half, or 63.6 of transgender children refrained from their diagnosis. The study determined “only 36.4 percent had a confirmed [gender identity disorder] diagnosis after five years”.
The most likely group to do this were 15- to 19- year old females. That percentage was huge, 72.7.
Young men backed away too
About half, or 50.3 percent, of males aged 20 to 24 no longer identified as transgender after five years. Another majority or 72.4 percent diagnosed as transgender had at least one other psychological disorder.
Depression disorders was a common diagnosis. Most females, 57.5, and about half of males, or 49.3 had a depression related diagnosis.
Among the psychiatric comorbidities was “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).”
The study noted the huge rise
People with gender disorders skyrocketed by 780 percent. Even adjusted for coding the percentage is still high, 289 percent.
The amount of doctors making the diagnosis also skyrocketed from 280 to an insane 1,019. Researchers thought the spike might be due to a number of factors including a “real increase in prevalence, increased awareness, decreasing stigmatization” to “social contagion” or even “overdiagnosis.”
The conclusion was that further research was needed because a study in the Netherlands came up with similar results.
“Further research into the reasons for the low persistence of diagnosis and the observed increase in prevalence is required. In the meantime, the stability of diagnosis and the high prevalence of accompanying mental disorders should be taken into account in recommendations for starting gender reassignment therapy in adolescence.”
