A piece at
HotAir.com cites a German study that shows that Gender Identity Disorder fades after about five years in at least half of the young people who are diagnosed with it. If this is so it makes the surgical disfigurement of the thousands of children who've undergone the procedures all the more tragic.
A new long-term study from Germany suggests that the majority of young people diagnosed with gender identity disorders do not continue to identify as such over time.
The study examined insurance data over five years, revealing that more than half of young people aged 5-24 across every age subgroup diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" no longer had the diagnosis after five years.
Specifically, the desistance rate was 72.7% in 15- to 19-year-old females and 50.3% in 20- to 24-year-old males. Among the whole group of 5- to 24-year-olds, only about 36.4% of those diagnosed in 2017 still had the diagnosis five years later, indicating that more than 63% desisted.
The research also noted a dramatic rise in the number of young people being diagnosed with gender identity disorders. In 2013, there were 22.5 cases per 100,000 insured young people, but by 2022, this had increased to 175.7 cases per 100,000, representing an increase of nearly 681%.
Is it just a coincidence that 2013 is about the time that young people began having widespread access to smartphones and social media? Is the much higher incidence of gender dysphoria in young females a function of the toxic effect of social media on young girls' self-image? Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt, in his book
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, claims it's no coincidence at all.
The study highlighted that, in almost all years, the highest prevalence of gender identity disorder diagnoses was found in 15- to 19-year-old females. In 2022, this age group had a prevalence rate of 452.6 cases per 100,000.
Three thoughts: 1) The sooner parents and schools act to limit online access to social media in their children the healthier those children will be. 2) I can't imagine the guilt thousands of parents who pushed their children into gender transition surgeries and puberty blockers will be feeling when their children realize what a horrible mistake this all was and blame their parents for it for the rest of their lives. 3) How many medical institutions and personnel will be the subject of lawsuits in the coming years, initiated by people who were radically disfigured by people and organizations eager to financially capitalize on the transgender insanity of our current cultural moment?