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bitspace t1_j53dgx9 wrote

I think everyone in this thread would benefit from reading this investigative piece that Reuters published last month.

The article posted by u/WapsuSisilija is light, is a single low-powered observational study, and is by no means representative of scientific consensus, because there is no consensus.

This is a very complicated issue. It appears to be true that there are mental health improvements for people who have been able to transition, but the studies that show this have all been done over the course of only a few years. Some studies that have followed people post-transition for longer than a few years shows a higher incidence of regret, and a substantially higher number of people for whom their mental health challenges did not improve after transition.

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