Yet ANOTHER Study Shows Medical Instead of Mental Health Treatment of Gender Dysphoria Is Harmful

Millions of Americans have been convinced by “experts” that “gender affirming care” for people with gender dysphoria helps prevent suicide and leads to “trans joy.”

It is and always was a lie. In Europe, there have been a number of reviews of the evidence and even the most “trans-affirming” countries have done an about face, and even expressed horror at the damage done to children in the name of “care.”

The “Dutch protocol” is dead, the Nordic countries have recoiled from these barbaric practices, and the UK–which may have been the worst offender in recent years–has done an about face on transgenderism and is looking at new ways to help hurting kids. 

It didn’t take a genius to see that puberty blockers, hormones, and disfiguring surgery were not the answer to psychological distress. Surgical treatments for mental health issues have famously been faddish before. Lobotomies, anyone? 

António Egas Moniz was given the Nobel Prize in Medicine for inventing the lobotomy, and the “treatment” was famously used on tens of thousands–at least–people to “cure” everything from depression to ADD or “bad behavior.”

We now use the term “lobotomize” not as one of acclamation, but rather in disgust. As we should

We will soon look back on the whole ‘trans madness’ with the type of same disgust we view lobotomies with in modern times.
These experiments are more twisted than some of the stuff Mengele did in Nazi Germany, and that is saying something.

— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) March 6, 2025

The same will certainly be true of today’s faddish “gender affirming care,” which soon enough will be seen as one of the most gruesome and Mengelesque medical experiments in human history. 

As with lobotomies, the “cure” is sold as a positive good, and anybody who objects wants children to suffer. “Have you no empathy?!” Yes, yes I do. Which is why I am not indifferent to the pain and lifelong damage that so-called “doctors” and “experts” are causing to children who have no defense, cannot consent, and who have been misled by an ideological industry that views “nonconformity” as a positive good in itself, rather than as a health skepticism based on reason and intuition. 

Baylor College of Medicine / UT Study:https://t.co/2bHMvk6fPN

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 6, 2025

By definition, nobody is “born in the wrong body,” and telling them that they are is manipulative and destructive to their happiness. 

If you need “experts” to tell you what the meanest intelligence should be able to figure out on their own if they use reason instead of emotion, don’t trust me but rather Oxford University’s Journal of Sexual Medicine. 

While not directly saying “DON’T DO THIS STUPID SURGERY,” the investigators found, unsurprisingly, that people who undergo “treatment” are WORSE OFF psychologically after surgery. 

From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery. Males with surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression (25.4% vs. 11.5%, RR 2.203, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (12.8% vs. 2.6%, RR 4.882, P < 0.0001). Females exhibited similar trends, with elevated depression (22.9% vs. 14.6%, RR 1.563, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (10.5% vs. 7.1%, RR 1.478, P < 0.0001). Feminizing individuals demonstrated particularly high risk for depression (RR 1.783, P = 0.0298) and substance use disorders (RR 1.284, P < 0.0001).

Clinical implications

Findings suggest the necessity for gender-sensitive mental health support following gender-affirming surgery to address post-surgical psychological risks.

Strengths and Limitations

By leveraging ICD-10 codes, we provide a more accurate representation of patient demographics and clinical outcomes, minimizing recall and reporting biases that often limit survey-based research. Limitations include the inability to account for unmeasured confounders such as social support.

Conclusion

Gender-affirming surgery, while beneficial in affirming gender identity, is associated with increased risk of mental health issues, underscoring the need for ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery.

What are these medical treatments intended to cure? Mental distress.

What happens when you do the treatments: more mental distress. In other words, things get worse. If the whole point is to reduce the risk of suicidality and depression, this is not the way to do it. Quite the opposite. 

I have been told that I should “trust the experts,” to which I say: every time I do, I find out they are wrong or even lying. I will trust my own eyes, and especially evidence and reason. I suggest others do too. 

Notice the ass covering these scientists do to avoid saying the obvious: “while beneficial in affirming gender identity, is associated with increased risk of mental health issues, underscoring the need for ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery.” 

Parse that out: we do this to treat dysphoria–a mental health condition–and we addressed that by making the dangerous consequences of dysphoria–depression, anxiety, and all the attendant problems–considerably worse. And if the solution to making things worse is mental health care–and it surely is–wouldn’t trying mental health care FIRST without the intervening and life-shortening medical interventions be superior?

I leave it to you to judge that one.