ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2023
Have the psychiatric needs of people seeking gender reassignment changed as their numbers increase? A register study in Finland.
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- Psychiatric Contacts Are Not Outcomes: Interpreting Evidence in Gender-Referred Youth.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996-2019: A Register Study.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- On being (not so) different: perceptions of gender dysphoria and neurodiversity among people aged 15-35 in Sweden.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Article
- Gender Incongruence in Danish Youth (GenDa): A Protocol for a Retrospective Cohort Study of Danish Children and Adolescents Referred to a National Gender Identity Service.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Rise in Gender Dysphoria Diagnoses and Legal Gender Changes in Sweden: 2005-2017.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Discontinuing hormonal gender reassignment: a nationwide register study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Differences in Subjective Transition Outcomes Between Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals Who Completed Mandatory Psychiatric Assessment and Those Who Received Gender-Affirmative Medical Treatment in Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for gender dysphoria is not conversion therapy.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2024Article
- ESCAP statement on the care for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: an urgent need for safeguarding clinical, scientific, and ethical standards.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe number of people seeking gender reassignment (GR) has increased everywhere and these increases particularly concern adolescents and emerging adults with female sex. It is not known whether the psychiatric needs of this population have changed alongside the demographic changes.
methodsA register-based follow-up study of individuals who contacted the nationally centralized gender identity services (GIS) in Finland in 1996-2019 (gender dysphoria [GD] group,
resultsThe GD group had received many times more specialist-level psychiatric treatment both before and after contacting specialized GIS than had their matched controls. A marked increase over time in psychiatric needs was observed. Among the GD group, relative risk for psychiatric needs after contacting GIS increased from 3.3 among those with the first appointment in GIS during 1996-2000 to 4.6 when the first appointment in GIS was in 2016-2019. When index period and psychiatric treatment before contacting GIS were accounted for, GR patients who had and who had not proceeded to medical GR had an equal risk compared to controls of needing subsequent psychiatric treatment.
conclusionContacting specialized GIS is on the increase and occurs at ever younger ages and with more psychiatric needs. Manifold psychiatric needs persist regardless of medical GR.
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