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Kuhn):
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Simonsen):
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Ruppin & Pfafflin): note the high loss to follow-up rate. the psychiatric morbidity rate is not statistically lower after surgery from before, suggesting that sexual reassignment surgery is not at all an effective treatment for mental disturbance. also note the drastically lower age of mortality (60 years) compared with the general population (around 80 years).
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Lindemalm)
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Dhejne): from a sample size of 324, 10 out of 27 deaths are by suicide. Surgery put participants at greater risk of suicide and psychiatric inpatient care.
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Leriche)
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Wierckx)
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Hunt & Hampson)
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Rehman): notice that despite 3 out of 47 deaths over 7 years, self-reports were positive. I personally believe that when you’re trans (as I was) affirming your choice as the right one is crucial to the religion. Also to your sanity, since the only way you can live with yourself after ruining your body is to convince yourself you have in fact fixed your body.
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Auer): no psychological improvement after surgery over the course of 5.5 and 7 years; in fact, psychological deterioration.
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Weyers): Again, SELF-PERCIEVED improvement was reported by the study, but objective measures were less certain. Sexual functioning “considerably worse” than general population.
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Eldh, Berg)
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Sorensen): despite the assumption that SRS would “resocialize” the 6 male participants, allowing them to find jobs and integrate into the population, the results were significantly worse pre to post. “no occupation after followup” meaning SRS did not magically give MTFS a work ethic. elevated alcohol abuse. does that seem like “treatment” to you??
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Hepp)
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Lindqvist): notice the 70% dropout rate and the unchanged/lower health statistics after surgery.
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Johansson): “Significant discrepancy between clinician’s judgment of outcomes and patient’s. yeah, cos the patients are delusional and religious. also notice how the majority of patients’ health was unchanged by surgery.
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Kuiper)
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Pimenoff & Pfafflin)
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Bodlund & Kullgren)
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Sorensen): out of 8 participants who underwent phalloplasty, the majority had sexual and psychological problems. though there were no suicide attempts post surgery, 4 participants were on disablement pensions vs 1 pre-op. out of 8. 50 percent. and yet, only one stated regret. AGAIN, it is my belief that participants would be extremely unwilling to admit issues with their “life-saving” surgery despite objective evidence that it’s a failure. Imagine going through this extremely invasive surgery with the believe that your life will be complete afterwards and then only being met with needless suffering.
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De Cuypere): improved suicide stats but notice the significant dropout rate
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Van de Grift): AGAIN: the subjective measures of patient satisfaction did not reflective the poor objective statistics, such as the observation that patients experienced 2.42 times higher levels of negative psychological symptoms than the general population. AGAIN, an illustration of the level of delusion the participants had to reach in order to uphold their religion.
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Jellestad) :“The participants showed worse scores than the general population in virtually all measurement ranges of mental QoL.” QoL stands for Quality of Life.
In conclusion, the longterm studies on trans treatment options show unequivocally poor results. there is an initial period of patient satisfaction lasting a few years, but there is a drastic decline 5, 10 years down the line with increased risk of suicide and psychological and physical disability. Patients report way higher levels of satisfaction than objective statistics measuring health and well-being, indicating that they are not accurately perceiving reality.