Social Landmark Dutch study shows those pesky conservatives were right all along: Kids grow out of "gender confusion"

[Madmick]

The full study link is here, and open source, so anyone can read it. The abstract summarizes all the most important points. Not only do the vast majority of young adolescents grow out of this, strongly indicating it is a phase, but it is also associated with poor mental health. This wasn't some small study. It followed thousands of individuals over a 20-year period:

Development of Gender Non-Contentedness During Adolescence and Early Adulthood - Archives of Sexual Behavior

Adolescence is an important period for the development of gender identity. We studied the development of gender non-contentedness, i.e., unhappiness with being the gender aligned with one’s sex, from early adolescence to young adulthood, and its association with self-concept, behavioral and...

link.springer.com

Adolescence is an important period for the development of gender identity. We studied the development of gender non-contentedness, i.e., unhappiness with being the gender aligned with one’s sex, from early adolescence to young adulthood, and its association with self-concept, behavioral and emotional problems, and adult sexual orientation.

Participants were 2772 adolescents (53% male) from the Tracking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey population and clinical cohort. Data from six waves were included (ages 11–26). Gender non-contentedness was assessed with the item “I wish to be of the opposite sex” from the Youth and Adult Self-Report at all six waves. Behavioral and emotional problems were measured by total scores of these scales at all six waves. Self-concept was assessed at age 11 using the Global Self-Worth and Physical Appearance subscales of the Self-Perception Profile for Children. Sexual orientation was assessed at age 22 by self-report. In early adolescence, 11% of participants reported gender non-contentedness. The prevalence decreased with age and was 4% at the last follow-up (around age 26). Three developmental trajectories of gender non-contentedness were identified: no gender non-contentedness (78%), decreasing gender non-contentedness (19%), and increasing gender non-contentedness (2%).

Individuals with an increasing gender non-contentedness more often were female and both an increasing and decreasing trajectory were associated with a lower global self-worth, more behavioral and emotional problems, and a non-heterosexual sexual orientation. Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development.

Gender dysphoria is a sign of mental and emotional instability, and should not be encouraged. It should definitely NOT be accommodated with actions that are potentially permanently harmful such as hormone treatments, or worst of all, invasive surgeries. Sometimes protecting minors means protecting them from their own impulses.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

The full study link is here, and open source, so anyone can read it. The abstract summarizes all the most important points. Not only do more young adolescents grow out of this, strongly indicating it is a phase, but it is also associated with poor mental health. This wasn't some small study. It followed thousands of individuals over a 20-year period:

Development of Gender Non-Contentedness During Adolescence and Early Adulthood - Archives of Sexual Behavior

Adolescence is an important period for the development of gender identity. We studied the development of gender non-contentedness, i.e., unhappiness with being the gender aligned with one’s sex, from early adolescence to young adulthood, and its association with self-concept, behavioral and...

link.springer.com

Gender dysphoria is a sign of mental and emotional instability, and should not be encouraged. It should definitely NOT be accommodated with actions that are potentially permanently harmful such as hormone treatments, or worst of all, invasive surgeries. Sometimes protecting minors means protecting them from their own impulses.

This has been painfully obvious this whole time and the fact some people support those actions for minors is mindblowing

 

[HeffDoesWant]

I don't think it's reasonable to label people like that.



I'd say 90+% of people are against gender reassignment for minors, long bow calling such a group Conservatives.

 

[The_Renaissance]

We all knew this, anyone sensible did. It's the new goth. It's the new teenage rebellion for angsty, uncomfortable, puberty hit kids.

 

[Cherry Brigand]

If only all the warroom libs had just waited it out instead of neutering themselves.

 

[Halge]

Oh look. It's that study our prime minister, Social Committee and Parliament did not read before April 17.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Common sense that needs studies.
History will not be merciful on all the quacks arguing for "gender affirming" treatments, like it is reasonable to "affirm" mental illness.

 

[Goatenstein]

Common sense that needs studies.
History will not be merciful on all the quacks arguing for "gender affirming" treatments, like it is reasonable to "affirm" mental illness.

Religious belief is also mental illness.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

Religious belief is also mental illness.

I'm a non believer, but that's obviously not true, and irrelevant to the discussion in this thread.

 

[Ballsaque]

So youre saying that letting kids (with developing brains) chemically and surgically altering their body and hormonoes permanently, sponsored by the state, was a bad idea?

 

[oldshadow]

Well the facts are tranphobic so they don't matter.

How dare they question that.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

I'm just waiting for @kflo.

 

[fungi]

Not mind-blowing but criminal

Not according to the latest western liblaws.
Deliberate and malicious, definitely.

 

[Bia]

sensible people wouldn't have any issue with these fads until the irreversible medical procedures are pushed on the children like hormone blocker, sex change surgeries etc.

 

[666]

Incoming tranny immigrants from Thailand.

 

[WhitestKidU’Know]

Who would have ever thought leaving life altering decisions in the hands of 8 year old kids was a bad idea.

 

[Confucamus]

This, much like the whole suicide narrative, is another example of a falsehood used to justify ridiculous changes to society to appease trans people. I do believe it is only a very vocal minority of the trans population that peddle this nonsense, but the media loves to amplify this narrative along with their "allies." Most trans just want to be left alone.

 

[ShadowRun]

I'm a non believer, but that's obviously not true, and irrelevant to the discussion in this thread.

one could argue that "woke" is a social region and that's why we see the faith, no logic results.

 

[DiddlyDoodly]

I don't think it's reasonable to label people like that.



I'd say 90+% of people are against gender reassignment for minors, long bow calling such a group Conservatives.

When you say 90% of "people", do you mean 90% of Democrats? Because 100% of Conservatives are against it.

10% is a scary high number. Remember when we shut the world down over a tiny fraction of that number?

 

[ShadowRun]

So youre saying that letting kids (with developing brains) chemically and surgically altering their body and hormonoes permanently, sponsored by the state, was a bad idea?

Interesting some places if you don't let your kid do that, they can be taken from you but if you do stuff like this in reverse. You're celebrated for pushing your kid into it.. It's like a cat being a vegetarian we know who's behind it.