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Study: Finnish youth more likely to see psychiatric specialists after gender treatments

The study tracked more than 2,000 patients and found specialist visits rose sharply after referrals, with 61.7% seen two or more years later.

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Young Fins suffering from gender dysphoria see psychiatric specialists at higher rates after receiving gender treatments than before, according to a new study. That study, which appeared in the medical journal Acta Paediatrica, tracked the psychiatric treatment needs of more than 2,000 individuals who attended gender-identity clinics between 1996 and 2019, while they were under the age of 23. Researchers say they chose that age as a cutoff because it’s a generally accepted benchmark for identity development.

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A Finnish survey conducted on twenty years of data refutes the effectiveness of the 'affirmative' approach: mental disorders among young people do not decrease after treatments. If anything, they are increasing exponentially. It took the certification of an authoritative peer-reviewed study, carried out following all the dictates of evidence based medicine (EBM, medicine based on scientific evidence) to have, with regard to the so-called “gender…

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Tichys Einblick broke the news in on Thursday, April 9, 2026.
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