Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision in England to restrict gender transitions for young people as support for their own related proposals.
They weren’t the first to turn to other countries, notably in Europe, for policy and research ideas. Lawmakers across the U.S., where at least 23 states now have tightened or removed access to transgender health care for minors, have routinely cited non-U.S. research or policies as justification for their legislation.
Yet leading health organizations in the United States and Europe continue to decisively endorse gender-affirming care for both transgender youths and adults.
Among other things, they argue that restrictions on things like hormone therapy tend to single out transgender youths, even though other young people also can benefit from them. And transgender advocates and allies see a political attempt to erase them, cloaked as concern for children.
87.8% of children are no longer gender dysphoric after reaching adulthood. That is a major reason why irreversible, elective medical changes to a child’s healthy body is so incredibly dangerous.
study source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full
Dysphoria is not a universal trans experience, and dysphoria will go away when people can express the gender they identify as.
Right off the bat that study is about sexual identity, ie- sexual preferences, not gender identity ie who one is.
And the are much better studies that are far more comprehensive
“found an overall rate of 1 percent for regret after surgery for both transmasculine and transfeminine surgeries.” https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-pamela-paul-nyt-data.html
You didn’t even get past the title which clearly describes it is about gender identity disorder: “A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder”. It also has info about sexual preferences, but that portion isn’t relevant to this discussion.
Read your own damn study. You are selectively omitting the words right before "of the 139 participants "
"Sexual orientation was ascertained for both fantasy and behavior and then dichotomized as either biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic. Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters. Data on sexual orientation in fantasy were available for 129 participants:… "
Gender identity/dysphoria had 139 participants, classified as persisters or desisters; of which 87.8% were desisters
Sexual orientation in fantasy had 129 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 63.6% biphilic/androphilic
Sexual orientation in behavior had 108 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 47.2% biphilic/androphilic
It states the terms ‘persisters’ and ‘desisters’ are for gender identity/dysphoria; of which 87.8% were desisters.
And?
It sounds like you’re admitting that the sampling method used by this study is biased, and that you didn’t read the conclusion:
Who’d have thought that trans kids who are forced through the wrong puberty would face more pressure to repress their gender variance than those who haven’t?
That’s a great study, but it ignores one massively important point: you can be trans and not dysphoric, quite a few trans people aren’t dysphoric.
Dysphoria is distress you feel because a gender mismatch. It’s entirely possible for a 7 year old boy to hate the fact that he was born male and be very upset over that. And that same person at 20 could be completely at peace with it.
They might be happily going through life as a male, female, or anything else, the paper doesn’t say. If you stop being upset over the gender assigned at birth, you’re not dysphoric anymore, that’s all that’s measured.
This paper doesn’t say “most dysphoric boys stop wanting to be girls before they’re 20”. It says “most dysphoric boys stop hating the fact they were born as boys before they’re 20”. Hell they might have fully transitioned, the paper doesn’t say.