Development of Gender Non-Contentedness During Adolescence and Early Adulthood | Archives of Sexual

• ​"We found that gender non-contentedness is most common around the age of 11 and that the prevalence decreases with age. Moreover, we identified three different developmental trajectory types of gender (non-) contentedness throughout adolescence and early adulthood: (1) the majority (78% of the sample) consistently indicated to never experience any gender non-contentedness, (2) a group reporting gender non-contentedness in early adolescence, but not any longer in adulthood (19% of the sample), and (3) a small group (2% of the sample) showing the opposite pattern of increasingly reporting gender non-contentedness with age."

Another Myth of Persistence?

• "Is childhood-onset gender dysphoria that persists into early puberty—-or, alternatively, worsens with early puberty—-highly persistent in adolescence and adulthood if untreated? In the opinion of many experts, yes. But the published evidence does not bear this out. The persistent rate, like the detransition rate (Cohn, 2023a), is unknown."​

BMC Psychiatry: Discontinuing hormornal gender reassignment: a nationwide register study

• ​“more recent research suggests that alongside the increase in the number of people accessing medical gender reassignment, reversing the initiated transition seems to be increasing”

Our Duty:  “German Study- Desistance is Common”:

• A ground-breaking German study looking at longitudinal data over five years points to desistance rates from “gender identity disorder” above 50%, ranging from 72.7% in 15- to 19-year-old females to 50.3% in 20- to 24-year-old males. 

Stats for Gender.org/Desistance:

• In one peer-reviewed study of 100 detransitioners, 76% did not inform their clinicians that they had detransitioned.

• Social-transition correlates with the persistence of a transgender identity.

Transgender Trend:  “Do Children Grow Out of Gender Dysphoria?”

• In 11 longitudinal studies, on average 80% of children did not persist with a transgender identity into adulthood.

The Detransition Rate is Unknown: 

• Some people stop taking hormones, stop identifying as transgender, and/or regret their medical interventions.

Gender-Affirming Care is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.

• “There is an oft-repeated statistic in the world of pediatric gender medicine that only one percent or less of young people who transition subsequently detransition. The studies asserting this…rest on biased questions, inadequate samples, and short timelines. I believe regret is far more widespread. For example, one new study shows that nearly 30 percent of patients in the sample ceased filling their hormone prescription within four years.” Dr. Rittakerttu Kaltiala

Adolescent Gender Dysphoria is a Temporary Diagnosis for Most Teens

• "​It is widely recognized that most children with gender dysphoria (GD) will come to terms with their sex and not live as transgender adults."

• "In fact, the rate of persistence of the gender dysphoria diagnosis for youth over seven years is 42.2 percent to 49.9 percent, with the trend line suggesting likely future declines."

• "The single most important implication is that there is no empirical basis for assuming that most adolescents presenting with GD are destined to live as gender-transitioned adults. This further suggests that the GD diagnosis presents a dubious basis for offering teens life-altering interventions with permanent impacts on health and functioning."

New Evidence Challenges Institutionalized Belief That Transgender Teens Become Transgender Adults, Undermining Core Defense of Medical Gender Transitions for Minors

• "​A pair of analyses of insurance-claims data each found that the majority of youths diagnosed with gender-related distress saw that diagnosis vanish from their medical chart within six years."

• "The ability of specialists to predict the future of youths with gender dysphoria, such critics claim, is compromised by a woeful lack of long-term follow-up data from the few available studies that follow gender-dysphoric youths over time."

• ​“What we can conclude from these analyses,” he said of the new medical-claims investigations, “is that the prevalence of gender incongruence-related diagnoses has increased over the years; that the diagnosis does not persist in all people diagnosed; and that gender identity is still in development in children and minors.”

Trans Regret is Possibly 33%​

• "The average trans regret is indeed “only 2.2%.” However, the average loss of follow-up is 30.9%. Why do participants refuse to take part in a follow-up study? Of course, it could be that they did not feel like it, or they emigrated, but we suspect there are much more painful reasons behind such a high dropout rate: shame and regret because you made a wrong choice and want to move on and especially not dwell on that disastrous decision. Or you committed suicide or died in some way, possibly because your body became unhealthy after the transition."

• "And precisely because we do not know, trans regret is not “only 2.2%,” but “possibly even 33.1%.” That is a significantly different number. Think about it for a while... "​

Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes - as critics say it shows being trans is usually just a phase for kids

• "Researchers in the Netherlands tracked more than 2,700 children from age 11 to their mid-twenties, asking them every three years of feelings about their gender."

• "Results showed at the start of the research, around one-in-10 children (11 percent) expressed 'gender non-contentedness' to varying degrees."

• "But by age 25, just one-in-25 (4 percent) said they 'often' or 'sometimes' were discontent with their gender."

• "The researchers concluded: 'The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common."

The Dutch Leaks: Trans Regret is Possibly 33%

• "Because no research has been conducted with a control group, no solid statement can be made about the increase in life quality due to transition. We do not know, besides the enormous and often mentioned loss of follow-up, which suggests the opposite. Globally, research has not been adequately conducted. As a result, we are left with the half-hearted question of the trans regret percentage." ​