The vast majority of children who experience gender dysphoria will embrace their biological sex by adulthood, according to a sweeping national study that monitored children for 15 years.
Roughly two out of every three children who identify as transgender will embrace their birth sex by their mid-20s, the study found. People most likely to continue to identify as transgender have low self-esteem and other mental health challenges, researchers found.
The big lie has been exposed.
Be informed, not misled.
Those who claim to "follow the science" usually don't.
A study of children in the Netherlands tracked 2,772 adolescents from the age of 11 to 26, asking them to rate their mental and physical health every three years for 15 years. The Youth and Adult Self-Report (YSR) asked participants to assess how much they agreed with the statement, “I wish to be of the opposite sex.” A team of researchers then pored over the data from the Tracking Adolescent’s Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) to measure “gender non-contentedness.”
The vast majority (78%) of people never felt any feelings of gender dysphoria, researchers noted. “In early adolescence, 11% of participants reported gender non-contentedness,” wrote researchers in the study, published in February in the peer-reviewed Archives of Sexual Behavior. “The prevalence decreased with age and was 4% at the last follow-up (around age 26)” — a desistance rate of 64%.
Ben Johnson, senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand wrote this:
Experts felt vindicated by the latest research. “This new study simply confirms what has been known for over a decade,” Jay Richards, Ph.D., told The Washington Stand. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) “noted that most kids who experience distress with their sexed bodies resolve those feelings after they pass through natural puberty,” Richards — who serves as director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation — told TWS.
The Dutch study acknowledges it did not break new ground. Although few studies follow the same cohort for such a long period of time, the analysts admitted their findings fell in line with the best available literature. “The few longitudinal studies that have been conducted in a clinical setting found low persistence rates of early childhood gender dysphoric feelings into adolescence and adulthood,” wrote the researchers, linking to studies from 2016 and 2021. The latter found, “Boys clinic-referred for gender identity concerns in childhood had a high rate of desistance.”
Yet this and other studies reveal that “minors who are put on puberty blockers for the purposes of ‘gender affirmation’ are extremely likely to go on to take cross-hormones” such as estrogen and testosterone, Richards told TWS. Studies show up to 93% of children who begin on puberty blockers will go on to receive cross-sex hormone injections.
Experts say the transgender industry’s early medical intervention actually deepens and prolongs feelings of gender dysphoria that would otherwise go away on their own. “This is what makes ‘gender-affirming’ (that is, sex-denying) medical interventions on minors such a medical atrocity. These interventions fast track troubled kids onto a path to sterilization and lifelong medical problems,” explained Richards.
The big lie is exposed.
This study, and others like it, prove that “children need time, not gender-‘affirming’ medical mutilation,” according to Sarah Parshall Perry of the Heritage Foundation.
🚨BOMBSHELL: 15-year study from the Netherlands of 2,700 children reveals that the significant majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling by the time they are fully grown adults.
— Sarah Parshall Perry (@SarahPPerry) April 4, 2024
Children need time.
Not gender-"affirming" medical mutilation pic.twitter.com/hAJ9KuYXhe
Sexual dysfunction appears to be extremely common as well,” wrote Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, at The Hill. So-called “gender-affirming hormonal treatment” (GAHT) causes “permanent physical changes including excruciating genital growth, vaginal atrophy and tearing and much higher risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease.”
The Hill article says, "Across the United States, thousands of parents have consented to having their children’s puberty stopped with a class of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. Known colloquially as “puberty blockers,” these drugs overstimulate the pituitary gland to the point of preventing it from sending signals to the ovaries or testes to start producing the hormones responsible for puberty.
Parents who have consented to these drugs for their children love their kids dearly, but they’ve consented under entirely false pretenses. The doctors who’ve advised them say that puberty blockers are known to improve mental health — that they are even life-saving — and that they are fully reversible and just give kids “time to think.” None of this is true.
Why are adults doing this to children?
First, about the money.
NIAID was the largest single funder of transgender-related projects, accounting for 66.8% of the approximately $84.7 million spent. An additional four Institutes and Centers—NIMH, NICHD, NIDA, and NIMHD—funded more than $3 million each on transgender-related studies in 2023.
This is only for research.
Back in 2019 Family Research Council published this:
Part of the reason is because there's big money driving trans medicine.
After trans medical research became popular in Europe in the early 2000s, doctors gained a new understanding of how they could make a financial killing by peddling a new "treatment" for the psychiatric problem of gender dysphoria.
It's not that these doctors weren't genuinely trying to help people with gender dysphoria. It's just that once money came into the equation, the trajectory of the industry changed. If you study the history of trans medicine, you'll quickly discover that, as the machine grew bigger and people realized how many millions of dollars could be made off of people's mental health struggles, those who opposed the idea of sex reassignment were silenced. This includes well respected Ivy League professors and medical industry leaders like Dr. Paul McHugh. McHugh was the Johns Hopkins doctor in charge of the first sex-reassignment surgery program in the U.S. Once McHugh reviewed the data and realized that going along with a patient's delusion was proving more harmful than helpful, he shut the Johns Hopkins program down.
Johns Hopkins later reopened it following his retirement.
By that time, it was too late. What began as two clinics (one on either coast) that recommended sex reassignment surgery to people experiencing gender confusion had already begun to expand. Now there are clinics in almost every state offering these surgeries, and at least 13 states cover transition surgeries under Medicaid.
The sex reassignment surgery market is estimated to reach $968 million by 2024. The country of Thailand alone attracts 2 million transgender people each year to undergo sex reassignment. As a result, the country has a $4 billion medical tourism market. Packages that include medical and surgical expenses plus hotel accommodation start at $9,770.
Takeaway
So money is driving the trans movement
Secondly, this barbaric assault on children has been pushed into our public schools by activists who are committed to so-called progressive ideologies.
I'm sure many public school teachers do not agree with the trans movement, but enough of them do to ensure planting the seeds of destruction in the minds of our kids.
Enough public school administrators and teachers have aligned with the trans activists to plant the seeds of destruction in the hearts and minds of our kids--- and in our culture.
The Bible clearly teaches that God, the Creator, created "male and female" in his image and His likeness.
The suggestion that there are male and female variants is a rebellious act against the Creator and against true science.
Secular progressive humanism is at war with God on all fronts. All human institutions that presuppose there is fixed truth have come under attack in recent years.
It is a demonic, spiritual assault on the children of the world.
It is carried out for the sake of money and to advance a dark demonic agenda.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.