Mia Hughes: Finnish data shows gender treatments increase psychiatric needs. Canada lags behind

“A major new study from Finland casts fresh doubt on the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for adolescents experiencing gender distress. For more than a decade, supporters of these interventions have argued that they reliably improve mental health and can even be “ life-saving ” for trans-identified youth. Yet this Finnish study — one of the largest and most robust to date — found no such benefit. Instead, it linked the treatments to a marked worsening of mental health. Read More

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