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📰A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions (under age 23) did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have had a negative impact. Link ⬇️ /1

Very sobering information coming out of the Finnish study tracking 3,000 gender transition participants over 24 years. Dr Joseph, clinical psychologist, states that the common claim that transition prevents suicide is unethical & false. Gender affirming surgeries worsened mental health outcomes in trans people when compared with matched population controls.

I have largely avoided commenting on meeting studies because social media is not the right place to properly do so. Dr. Laura claimed to have done a deep dive into this study and asked me to “share mine, which is fairly objective” — it is a no from me. When we critically appraise a study, we basically ask three questions (and for each question, there is a list of considerations): first, are the study results valid—what is the risk of bias, and is the study high quality? Second, what are the results, and what do they mean? Third, are the results applicable to the target setting—how is the applicability? Whether this study is high quality or not is the first question we ask. From Dr. Laura’s piled-on list, which posts are relevant to study quality? Very few, no more than two. It seems Dr. Laura did not identify many important issues related to study quality. Of course, you may have questions about what the study actually tells us and what it does not. People may misread the study (what are the study findings), but that is not the fault of the researchers. There are indeed some questions this study cannot answer (the third, applicability question). Even a good-quality study cannot answer all questions. Unlike Dr. Laura, I do not expect this study to answer all the questions on my list. This Finnish study only starts by answering a basic question: is the medical intervention helping, compared with no medical intervention? In this field, it is very rare for a study to have a parallel control and no selective participation—both features are related to study quality. We are not in a position to ask a study to be perfect; this study is almost the best we have up to now.

‘Same pattern of lies repeated decades later.’ Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Dr Dionne Joseph, believes that gender transitions for young adults are one of the biggest medical scandals of our time, as a Finnish study reveals transitioning impacted mental health symptoms.

It will be interesting to see how in coming days genderists will seek to circumnavigate the Finnish study. My money is on an all-purpose bleat about "insufficient data", possibly overlaid by the usual babble about "lived experience", "cisheteronormativity" & other gibberish.

I must say I had to doublecheck this was real.