{"id":211587,"date":"2020-08-07T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T07:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211587"},"modified":"2020-08-09T08:17:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T08:17:23","slug":"authors-of-largest-gender-transition-study-forced-to-admit-the-uncomfortable-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211587","title":{"rendered":"Authors of Largest Gender ‘Transition’ Study Forced To Admit the Uncomfortable Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Destination Now \u2013 Aug 6, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A 2019 study that painted a rosy picture of the mental health benefits for individuals who undergo gender reassignment surgery was wrong, its authors have said in a published correction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The correction, published by the\u00a0American Journal of Psychiatry<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, concluded that after reviewing how the\u00a0original study\u2019s numbers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0were crunched, \u201cthe conclusion that \u2018the longitudinal association between gender-affirming surgery and lower use of mental health treatment lends support to the decision to provide gender-affirming surgeries to transgender individuals who seek them\u2019 is too strong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In an Op-Ed published by the\u00a0Heritage Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Ryan T. Anderson wrote that the study\u2019s authors now admit that \u201cthe results demonstrated no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the study\u2019s information is behind a paywall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anderson also noted that life most certainly did not improve for those who received the treatment in at least one respect, quoting the study\u2019s authors as now claiming that \u201cindividuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgery were more likely to be treated for anxiety disorders compared with individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not received gender-affirming surgery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The correction is significant because when the study came out, it was ballyhooed to the skies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSex-change operations yield long-term mental health benefits for transgender people,\u201d\u00a0Reuters<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0headlined its report.<\/span><\/p>\n

The wire service also included a comment from Dr. Joshua Safer, executive director at Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City, who had written, \u201cIf anything, the study likely under-reports mental health benefits of medical and surgical care for transgender individuals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Others had been less kind, and the authors eventually went back to re-evaluate their work and publish the correction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Very interesting. The science that indicates hormones and #gender<\/a> reassignment surgery is effective has now been redacted makes the case for #sexnotgender<\/a>. https:\/\/t.co\/270IoiOoUX<\/a><\/p>\n

— What about the L (@whataboutthel) August 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n