Almost two thirds of children and teenagers who say they want to change sex have been diagnosed with serious mental health disorders before expressing the desire to transition, a new study has found.
The research, published in the scientific journal Plos One, raises fears that young people who claim to be confused about their gender could actually be suffering from other psychological conditions. A growing number of parents and psychologists have expressed concerns that the NHS is being too quick to accept children’s claims that they are transgender.
The UK’s only NHS gender identity service for under-18s, the Tavistock clinic in North London, has seen its referral levels rise dramatically from 94 in 2009 to more than 2,500 so far this year.
The study discovered 63 per cent of the young people in the study had had ‘one or more diagnoses of a psychiatric disorder or neurodevelopmental disability’ before announcing they wanted to change gender. It also found that almost half had self-harmed and that 50 per cent had suffered a traumatic event in their lives such as their parents divorcing, being bullied or suffering sexual abuse.
The paper’s author, Dr Lisa Littman, of Brown University in the United States, surveyed more than 250 parents who had registered on online forums for families worried about their children’s desire to change sex.
James Caspian, a psychologist specialising in therapy for transgender patients, said: ‘This study shows we need a lot more research and a lot more critical thinking about this relatively new phenomenon of the rising number of young people claiming transgender identities.’
However, Heather Ashton, who runs the TG Pals transgender support group for young people, said they ‘deserved to be listened to and taken seriously’.
Not only have none of you even met a trap in person, not only are all of you unaware of the amount of upkeep a man has to maintain in order to look even remotely like the shooped pics you all fap to (because yes they’re all shooped), not only have you never even had sex with a man (because yes, you will have to do that with a trap because no they will not always be in drag), not only have you not considered the level of depression and parental issues that are practically inherent with every trap, but you haven’t even considered the parallels of these issues in women. Women take less effort to appear feminine, ergo they are generally less concerned with their appearance than traps. Women’s emotional issues, while compounded by hormones, are ultimately due to confidence issues, whereas a trap inherently has no sense of self. They are mentally weak, unengaging, and so malleable to any form of validation that they possess no identity outside of their issues. I understand that some of you think this is perfect, but realize that, in admitting this, you’re essentially looking for a sex doll. You don’t want human company. You want the illusion of human company. You want the appearance of being desirable to another person, but due to the lack of identity that traps possess, they are only biologically people.
