Western Standard is a dogshit publication, so let me save you a click by summarizing the key point from the paper:
[Adolescents who underwent gender reassignment surgery] showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls both before (45.7% vs. 15.0%) and ≥ 2 years after referral (61.7% vs. 14.6%).
In plain English: kids with gender dysphoria are almost 3 times more likely to seek psychiatric care than the average kid. Two years after reassignment, they’re even more likely to need and seek psychiatric care. In a shit hole like the US where mental health is barely an afterthought, that means lots of suicides.
Trantifa are obviously disputing the study.
Dogshit website for other reasons, but yea-- anyone could’ve seen this coming.
Gender dysphoria is in the same ballpark as body dysphoria-- it’s a dysphoria, not “who they really are”.
Most people with body dysphoria who’re just “validated” as opposed to being psychologically treated just become plastic surgery addicts. Likewise, “transitioning” people with gender dysphoria does absolutely nothing to address the real underlying psychological issues.
And has anyone asked these adolescents why they seek mental health care?