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Oh you have to be kidding me. Listen, @jacine-the-queen , I regret to inform you that it has not, in fact "already been proven" that transition helps with dysphoria. In fact, long term outcomes show the exact opposite. You really going to discount the data from 1331 individuals who underwent hormone replacement therapy?

Asscheman 2011 (Netherlands) considered the outcomes of 1331 post-HRT transsexuals with an 18.4yr average length since beginning of treatment. The outcomes for the female-to-males seemed generally positive but in the much larger male-to-female group, comprising 72.6% of the total, “total mortality was 51% higher than in the general population, mainly from increased mortality rates due to suicide, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, cardiovascular disease, drug abuse, and unknown cause.” Breaking this down further they state, “the increased mortality risk in MtF in our cohort was characterized by a high SMR [standard mortality rate] of suicide (of 5.70), AIDS (of 30.2), and illicit drug-related deaths (of 13.2).” The timing of the suicides also provides some important information.  None occurred within 2 years of treatment, consistent with the “honeymoon period” mentioned so often in the literature. However, “there were six suicides after 2–5 years, seven after 5–10 years, and four after more than 10 years of cross-sex hormone treatment”.

And the next study is even more damning:

Dhejne 2011 (Sweden) is among the most well-known studies on transition outcomes, partially due to its surprisingly negative results and partially due to differences among authors in interpreting the data. The sample was 324 post-surgery transsexuals with median follow-up time of over 10 years, the largest study of those post-SRS [sex-reassignment surgery]. One advantage to the study was that Dhejne compared the sample not only to population data, as with Asscheman, but to matched non-trans controls. Findings included 7.6 times higher suicide attempts than controls and 19 times higher completed suicides. Pyschiatric hospitalization was 2.8 times higher, even after adjusting for prior psychiatric morbidity.

So yeah. Data.

Some information about what is happening in the UK with regards to trans rights. Thank you @wxntersolider for the screenshots.

I love how North Dakota and Iowa have no green counties, but then Minnesota and Wisconsin are like 1/3 green not to mention Chicago.

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