ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2015
Two years of gender identity service for minors: overrepresentation of natal girls with severe problems in adolescent development.
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- Gender Dysphoria, Sexuality and Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Map Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Pooled it
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- Obsessional thinking and autistic traits are each uniquely associated with greater traits of gender dysphoria in clinical and nonclinical adult samples.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Gender dysphoria in adolescence: examining the rapid-onset hypothesis.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2025Review
- Towards Best-Practice Healthcare for Transgender Patients: Quality Improvement in United Kingdom General Practice.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Autistic Characteristics in a Nationally Representative Clinical Sample of Adolescents Seeking Medical Gender-Affirming Treatment in Norway.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Supporting autonomy in young people with gender dysphoria: psychotherapy is not conversion therapy.Journal of medical ethics · 2024Article
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- Gender Dysphoria and Scoliosis: Pediatric Orthopaedists Are Very Much Members of the Healthcare Team.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2024Article
- Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Autistic Transgender or Gender-Nonconforming US College Students.JAMA network open · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundIncreasing numbers of adolescents present in adolescent gender identity services, desiring sex reassignment (SR). The aim of this study is to describe the adolescent applicants for legal and medical sex reassignment during the first two years of adolescent gender identity team in Finland, in terms of sociodemographic, psychiatric and gender identity related factors and adolescent development.
methodsStructured quantitative retrospective chart review and qualitative analysis of case files of all adolescent SR applicants who entered the assessment by the end of 2013.
resultsThe number of referrals exceeded expectations in light of epidemiological knowledge. Natal girls were markedly overrepresented among applicants. Severe psychopathology preceding onset of gender dysphoria was common. Autism spectrum problems were very common.
conclusionThe findings do not fit the commonly accepted image of a gender dysphoric minor. Treatment guidelines need to consider gender dysphoria in minors in the context of severe psychopathology and developmental difficulties.
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