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Transgender Psychosurgeries Don't Work? Who Could Have Predicted This!

Huge survey shows mental health declines after sex lobotomy

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Matt Osborne
Mar 08, 2025
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Someone who predicted that gender magic would turn out to be a fiction

“Transgender individuals … face a heightened risk of psychological distress and related challenges, including suicidal tendencies,” say the authors of a new paper at the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Their study, which examined the anonymized records of 107,583 people sorted into six cohorts, found that patients who undergo so-called ‘gender affirming’ surgeries “were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery.”

Of course, ‘gender identity’ is a god that cannot fail, it can only ever be failed. The study authors blame “individuals’ heightened exposure to stigma-related stress, often referred to as minority stress,” specifically “the stress of not receiving gender affirmation” from society, for these poor outcomes.

Apparently, ‘gender affirmation’ is the first mental health treatment in history that requires the whole of society to act…

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