Body mutilations leave transgenders lonely, depressed

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An organization that provides so-called "gender-affirming" care has confirmed that body-mutilating surgeries fail to help the patient's mental health, actually making them feel lonelier than other patients who do not have surgeries, according to a new report.

It is the Washington Stand that documented the results released from the study in BMC Public Health, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

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That study found "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."

Further, a separate conclusion from a second study by the same researchers found, "[O]ur data indicate that transgender and gender diverse people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery feel lonelier" than transgender-identified people who have not had surgeries.

The Washington Stand reported several other conclusions were drawn, including that higher loneliness levels were linked to having those surgeries in combination with more than four hours a week of sports activities, compared to no sports activity.

"The German experts collected the data informing both studies from those seeking transgender surgery at a Hamburg surgical center. The respondents were '104 transgender people who had joined self-help groups to get and share information about the gender-affirming surgeries performed at the Division [Department] of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.' The facility carries out such common transgender procedures as 'labiaplasty' and 'breast augmentation,' as well as 'other surgical services,'" the Stand explained.

Joining in the authorship of both studies was Marco Blessman, who has headed the university's plastic surgery center since 2014, and Katharina Grupp, a member of the team there.

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"The most recent study finds that people who identify as transgender have lower overall life satisfaction than the general population — and young people suffering from gender dysphoria have worse mental health than older people," the report said.

For instance, Blessmann revealed 31% of transgender-identifying people felt 'dissatisfied' or 'extremely dissatisfied' with life. Only 1% said they were "extremely satisfied."

Also revealed was the fact that older patients were more satisfied that younger patients, and the authors previously had cited the links between transgenderism among the young to "disproportionally high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury."

"This finding is sadly consistent with other studies," explained Mary Beth Waddell, director of federal affairs for family and religious liberty at Family Research Council.

"One study showed that the suicide completion rate for those that had undergone surgery was 19 times higher than the general population.”

The findings undercut a common argument for those promoting the transgender lifestyle for children, who claim that they are so unhappy they will commit suicide unless parents agree to subject their children to the ideology.

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"A common tactic was for doctors to tell the parent of a [girl], 'You can either have a living son or a dead daughter,'" explained Jamie Reed, a far-Left LGBT activist and whistleblower who worked for four years at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Waddell explained, in the report, "The only way individuals dealing with gender dysphoria will come to live happy, healthy, and authentic lives is by addressing the source of their dysphoria and pursuing healing."

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