A landmark Finnish study of more than 2,000 adolescents has dealt a serious blow to the central promise of the child ‘gender medicine’ movement.
Adolescents who undergo sex alteration procedures experience a sharp rise in severe psychiatric illness in the years that follow, a landmark Finnish study has found.
The peer-reviewed study, published this week in Acta Paediatrica found that specialist psychiatric treatment rates rose more than sixfold among males and more than doubled in females after intervention.
Led by Professor Riittakerttu Kaltiala of Tampere University Hospital, the study tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland’s nationally centralised gender identity clinics between 1996 and 2019. The cohort of 2,083 individuals was followed for up to 25 years, compared against 16,643 matched population controls.
[…] The study’s core findings on those who underwent procedures are as follows:
Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up – rising from 9.8 per cent to 60.7 per cent in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6 per cent to 54.5 per cent in masculinising gender reassignment.
No doubt like you I had to re-read that paragraph again and check the study. And yes, the figures are correct.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, every subgroup of gender-referred adolescents – whether or not they had undergone the procedures – faced substantially elevated ongoing psychiatric risk.
Adjusted hazard ratios placed them at approximately five times higher risk than male population controls and three times higher than female controls.
The authors noted that in some individuals, the medical procedures “appear to be linked to deterioration in mental health.”
Here the authors are being careful. If there was no causal link they certainly wouldn’t have put “appear to be linked to deterioration in mental health” in the study.
[…] The Finnish findings arrive amid a contested policy environment in Australia. Queensland’s LNP government has suspended the initiation of puberty-suppressing drugs and cross-sex hormones for minors until at least 2031, pending its own state-level review.
[…] The UK’s Cass Review – a four-year NHS-commissioned independent inquiry – found the evidence base for puberty-suppressing drugs and cross-sex hormones in minors to be “remarkably weak”, prompting the UK to restrict routine prescribing.
But wait, it gets even worse…
[…] Two Australian clinicians who raised concerns about child ‘gender medicine’ have faced regulatory action.
Queensland psychiatrist Dr Andrew Amos was banned by AHPRA for publicly questioning the contested treatments and barred from direct clinical contact. The conditions were imposed following complaints about his social media posts, though no finding of patient harm or unsafe clinical practice were made against him.
Queensland child psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer was suspended from Queensland Children’s Hospital in 2023 after objecting to the state’s child gender treatment model. She was subsequently issued a termination notice one month before an independent panel was due to deliver its findings – a decision now subject to legal challenge.
So comply or lose your livelihood.
Predictably the trans lobby have gone on the attack, calling the study bullshit and claiming the study doesn’t prove causation. Yeah well, all that means is that at best gender-reassignment surgery does nothing and at worst (most likely) causes a severe increase in harm.
If someone wants to castrate themselves or get their boobs cut off ‘just because’ that’s their choice. But this kind of surgery should never be used as treatment, especially for adolescents who are too young to know any better. And that’s putting it lightly.
Source: https://dailydeclaration.org.au/2026/04/07/after-gender-reassignment/
