Disaster Gender dysphoria diagnoses are rising nationwide

Gender dysphoria diagnoses rose in nearly every U.S. state between 2018 and 2022, per a new Definitive Healthcare report.

• They fell only in South Dakota, which last year became the sixth state to restrict gender-affirming care for minors.

Why it matters: The nearly nationwide increases suggest growing demand for gender-affirming care, even amid efforts in many states to restrict access.

Be smart: Gender dysphoria is a form of psychological distress felt by people who believe their assigned sex fails to match their gender identity.

• Not all transgender people experience or are diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
• But such a diagnosis is often a first step when seeking gender-related mental health care or gender-affirming care, in order to access treatment and activate insurance coverage.

State of play: Conservative leaders and lawmakers nationwide have been seeking to restrict gender-affirming care in recent years — in some cases forcing those seeking such care to travel out-of-state to receive it.

• However, not all those who want such care have the means to travel.
• Research shows that access to gender-affirming care can decrease rates of depression and suicide, while transgender advocates say that promotion of gender-affirming care bans can fuel discrimination and hate crimes.

Zoom in: Virginia (+274%), Indiana (+247%) and Utah (+193%) have seen the greatest increases in gender dysphoria diagnoses, while South Dakota (-23%), Hawai'i (+6%) and Connecticut (+10%) have seen the biggest drop or lowest increases, based on medical procedure and diagnosis claims data.

• While South Dakota's ban wasn't enacted until 2023, lawmakers there attempted to pass a similar law back in 2020 — which likely had "the dual chilling effects of reduced access to sympathetic providers and the self-directed seeking of care in states where long-term access was protected," per Definitive Healthcare's report.

What they're saying: "Other states with bans on gender-affirming care for youth have seen year-to-year dips in gender dysphoria diagnoses, too," the report found, "possibly indicating that shifting social and political climates have pushed young patients and their parents to seek diagnoses in states that are friendlier to trans people."

What's happening: It appears that young Americans are increasingly open to seeking gender-affirming care.

• The share of gender dysphoria diagnoses among patients under 18 increased from 17.5% to 20.4% between 2018 and 2022 — perhaps a reflection of trans identities and gender identity ideas becoming "more accepted by society," as the report put it.

Of note: Gender-affirming care is supported by major medical associations, and the transgender population remains relatively small — about 1.6 million people 13 and over, per one estimate, or about 0.5% of the total U.S. population.

The bottom line: While gender dysphoria diagnoses are generally increasing, receiving one is only an early step on many transgender Americans' physical and mental health care journeys.

• What comes next continues to depend heavily on where they live and what resources are available to them.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/11/gender-dysphoria-statistics-us-map (Archive)

 

[Tiny Chinaman]

Get yo vaccines for the FAG FLU today

 

[Buttigieg2020]

South Dakota stemming the tide today. Godspeed all 5 of you.

What they're saying: "Other states with bans on gender-affirming care for youth have seen year-to-year dips in gender dysphoria diagnoses, too," the report found, "possibly indicating that shifting social and political climates have pushed young patients and their parents to seek diagnoses in states that are friendlier to trans people."

This is why state politics matter.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

What happens when you push the insanity of lopping off your genitals as a 'normal' and a whole bunch of kids who want to fit in no matter what as well as a bunch of groomers enabled by the state? "Trans" kids.

Seriously. This God-forsaken trend will be studied for decades on how it fucked up society much like lobotomies did to come once this social justice nonsense dies screaming in a fire.

 

[LeChampion1992]

What happens when you push the insanity of lopping off your genitals as a 'normal' and a whole bunch of kids who want to fit in no matter what as well as a bunch of groomers enabled by the state? "Trans" kids.

Seriously. This God-forsaken trend will be studied for decades on how it fucked up society much like lobotomies did to come once this social justice nonsense dies screaming in a fire.

In many ways this is a cruelty that has been mainstreamed to make an army of Incels with nothing to lose

 

[Not A Bunny]

What happens when you push the insanity of lopping off your genitals as a 'normal' and a whole bunch of kids who want to fit in no matter what as well as a bunch of groomers enabled by the state? "Trans" kids.

Seriously. This God-forsaken trend will be studied for decades on how it fucked up society much like lobotomies did to come once this social justice nonsense dies screaming in a fire.

No kidding. Piercings you can remove, tattoos can be covered up.

Lopping shit off for a trend? People don't seem to understand that there might be some euphoria that's associated with lifestyle changes like taking hormones or surgery, but we have a generation of women that look permanently spooked because they got addicted to facelifts, and the generation after that became bloated in the face from all of the Botox.

It's almost as if those women have a problem with self-acceptance that was never going to be cured by surgery, or something.

The absolute least you as a reasonable adult can tell a kid who claims to be trans is: "listen, kid, there are no guarantees you'll get the body you fantasize about having. If you're not going to change your mind, you need to understand that more than say, 3 surgeries is probably really dangerous both physically and mentally. Oh, and did I mention you will be chemically dependent for the rest of your life, unlike a lot of your peers? Yes, that's right. You may think that being trans is great now, but there's a high probability you not only won't be one of those top 5% everyone chases after, you might just look like a creepy weirdo that nobody would want because you're so far afield of being normal.

"Now, tell me kid, do you really want to make that kind of decision?"

 

[Barry Williams]

They fell only in South Dakota, which last year became the sixth state to restrict gender-affirming care for minors.

restrict gender-affirming care for minors

for minors

It's almost like it's a social contagion or something.

 

[Ser Prize]

South Dakota stemming the tide today. Godspeed all 5 of you.


This is why state politics matter.

I like how their conclusion was "they're going out of state for gender care" instead of "once the propaganda stopped so the fuck did they"

 

[Wallace]

This is going to be looked back upon like pediatric bipolar. Back around 2008, the fad diagnosis for kids who were misbehaving was pediatric bipolar, never mind that it was ridiculously rare prior to the fad. Everyone wanted this diagnosis, it jumped like 4000% in a couple of years, and six year old kids got put on massive doses of drugs that they did not fully understand, with disastrous results. The doctors who promoted this diagnosis were taking millions from the drug companies. There was no apology or reckoning from the field of psychiatry for this fad. Even the guy who revised the DSM called it a fad. Also here.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

Let's call it what it is. Gay conversation. And reverse gay conversion for straight white men

 

[The handsome tard]

I miss the times when you did cringy shit as a kid but it could all be deleted and even excused with the "I was a dumb kid" excuse. Thats because what you did was dress up weird or make weird drawings and stories. But this? You are mutilating yourself and there is no turning back from it even with de-transition. You will never be the same. At best you can de-transition and still remain relatively traumatized from the whole experience.

This is going to be looked back upon like pediatric bipolar. Back around 2008, the fad diagnosis for kids who were misbehaving was pediatric bipolar, never mind that it was ridiculously rare prior to the fad. Everyone wanted this diagnosis, it jumped like 4000% in a couple of years, and six year old kids got put on massive doses of drugs that they did not fully understand, with disastrous results. The doctors who promoted this diagnosis were taking millions from the drug companies. There was no apology or reckoning from the field of psychiatry for this fad. Even the guy who revised the DSM called it a fad. Also here.

When you see how much money a tranny makes for big pharma and coupled with the fact that the number of doctors who a moral bone in their bodies is shockingly low...yeah.

Doctors and scientists have never been the most moralistic bunch through history.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Well now that any time little Suzy or Timmy do something that isn't stereotypically gendered to them, like wearing pants or touching a Barbie respectively, dumbasses decide they must be trans and need a lifetime of hormones or they'll 41% themselves. I really hope some day the general public will look back on this the same way as trans-orbital lobotomies or thalidomide.

 

[LavenderMenace]

This whole push for sex organ removal feels like population control. Which I’m all for. Too many people in the US anyway….

 

[Teeth That Tear]

 

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

Now if only it was treated as a mental illness instead of a lifestyle choice.