‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgery Leaves People Lonelier and Depressed, Study by Transgender Surgery Department Chairman Finds
Ben Johnson / June 02, 2023
The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf—seen here on May 30, 2022—carries out transgender procedures, such as “labiaplasty” and breast augmentation. Data collected from 104 transgender patients there informed two studies that found that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. (Photo: Axel Heimken/DPA/Getty Images)
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Ben Johnson
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The head of a facility that carries out so-called “gender-affirming care” has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether.
“In our study, the level of life satisfaction in transgender people was not increased in transgender people who had undergone gender-affirming surgery as compared to those who were unoperated,” says a study published Tuesday in BMC Public Health, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
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- ur data indicate that transgender and gender-diverse people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery feel lonelier” than transgender-identified people who have not elected to have surgery, finds a separate study by the same four researchers, originally published online May 11 in the journal Healthcare (Basel).
The researchers also reveal that people who identify as members of the opposite sex experienced greater isolation if they played sports. “[H]igher loneliness levels were significantly associated with … already having a gender-reassignment surgery [and] more than 4 [hours] a week of sports activities,” as “compared to no sports activity.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/02/transgender-surgery-leaves-people-lonelier-depressed-study-transgender-surgery-dept-chairman-finds/
