is appropriate. For minors, parental consent is required to initiate medical treatment.
"The positive findings of this observational study match the lived clinical experience of mental health experts who, in their many years of providing gender-affirming care, have repeatedly learned from the youth themselves about their," said co-author Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health at the UC San Francisco Child and Adolescent Gender Center, and Professor of Pediatrics.
The study, the largest of its kind in the U.S., included 315 transgender and non-binary youth ages 12-20 years. Study visits occurred every six months for two years after treatment initiation, which is the longest follow-up reported to date. Researchers examined measures of appearance congruence, depression, anxiety, positive affect and life satisfaction.
They found that overall, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, while depression and anxiety symptoms decreased. Appearance congruence was associated with each psychosocial outcome assessed at baseline and during the follow-up period. "Our results provide a strong scientific basis that gender-affirming care is crucial for the psychological well-being of our patients," said co-author Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator for the study at Lurie Children's, Co-Director of Lurie Children's Gender and Sex Development Program and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine."We must ensure that access to this care remains available to youth with gender dysphoria.
LurieChildrens NEJM I get it ..its stopping the chances for natural births.
LurieChildrens NEJM For how long? What else is it doing to the body? What is it doing to the bone structure? Why is there such a high risk of suicide with this medication? Is it corsing sexual disfunction? Does that make young ppl happy What about them that do regret taking these medications
physorg_com LurieChildrens NEJM Fake story
physorg_com LurieChildrens NEJM Nope. No matter how bad you want this to be true it just simply is not.The best way to let gender expression fully reveal itself is to get all kids everywhere off of every single medicine.Also, adult use of hormones disrupters (birth control, cancer Rx) almost cert effects kids 2
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LurieChildrens NEJM There are there higher suicide rates among the 'treated'. Irresponsible pedalling of harmful nonsense - you just get hairy females and neutered males 😮💨