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60% of males and 70% of females attending the world’s largest gender clinic (GIDS) are same-sex attracted
Approximately 60% of G IDS youth who were biological males and 70% who were biological females reported attraction to the same sex or to both sexes
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Only 4 of the 46 studies reviewed by the UK Government focused exclusively on conversion therapy for gender identity, and none focused exclusively on the practice in the UK
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6 of the 30 people interviewed for a UK Govt-commissioned study of conversion therapy identified as transgender or non-binary, limiting the conclusions that could be drawn about gender-identity change efforts
Report concluded little evidence available
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High psychiatric burden suggests complex underlying mental health needs in gender-referred adolescents
Adolescents referred to gender identity services showed markedly elevated rates of specialist psychiatric treatment both before and after referral
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Genital surgery is associated with high rates of pelvic floor and sexual dysfunction
Systematic review & meta-analysis examined 25 studies finds a high prevalence of pelvic complications among both male and female patients
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ALT The image is a graph showing pelvic complications taken from the journal article: 'Pelvic floor and sexual dysfunctions after genital gender-affirming surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis'
There is evidence that up to a quarter of transgender genital surgeries result in incontinence
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There is evidence that up to a quarter of transgender genital surgeries result in incontinence
Systematic literature review found 21% of male-to-female / 25% of female-to-male, patients suffer incontinence as a result of transgender genital surgery
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There are 2 sexes: male and female. Biological sex is not a spectrum
Biological sex is encoded in every cell of the body
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Study of women taking testosterone showed:
94.1% had some form of pelvic floor dysfunction
86.7% had urinary symptoms
Other issues included; storage symptoms (69.1%)
sexual dysfunction (52.9%), anorectal symptoms (45.6%), and flatal incontinence (39.7%)
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Systematic review of 32 studies involving 3,463 patients found urinary complications in 21% of M-to-F & 25% of F-to-M patients after genital surgery.
Another study reported urinary incontinence / post-void dribbling in up to 79% of phalloplasty patients
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There is evidence that up to a quarter of transgender genital surgeries result in incontinence
Systematic literature review found 21% of male-to-female / 25% of female-to-male, patients suffer incontinence as a result of transgender genital surgery
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In a nationwide Finnish study recent cohorts show a marked increase in adolescent referrals with pre-existing psychiatric morbidity
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The linguistic term ‘Two-Spirit’ was invented in 1990
It was first coined at the Indigenous Lesbian and Gay International Gathering in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1990
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It is not true that 1.7% of the population is ‘born between the sexes’. The proportion of people with DSDs (‘intersex’ conditions) is 0.018%
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A 2024 review by Sallie Baxendale extensively examined the neuropsychological impacts of puberty blockers and found they potentially have a negative impact on neuropsychological functioning
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More than a third of UK residents in a survey did not know that “transgender women” are male
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A study of 100 detransitioners showed 49% had concerns about potential medical complications from transitioning
Another study showed 62% cited health concerns as a motivating factor for detransition - most detransitioners had undergone medical transition
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More & more children have already socially transitioned, including pronoun change, before they present to gender clinics
Dutch data indicate that, between 2000 & 2004, 3.3% of children had completely socially transitioned clothing, hairstyle, name change
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One study showed that, without social transition, nearly two-thirds of pre-teen gender-dysphoric males grow up to be gay or bisexual
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Social transition solidifies a transgender identity. The study findings showed that five years post-social transition, 94% of youth continued to identify as binary transgender, 3.5% identified as nonbinary, and 2.5% identified as cisgender
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A systematic review of regret rates across 27 studies showed that every study had insufficient follow-up time and/or high drop-out rates, which seriously compromise the reliability of the data on regret rates
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The District of Columbia has three and a half times more people who identify as trans than any State in the US, per head of the population
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