In recent years, left-wing governments in different countries have adopted the expression “fluid gender» to refer to those who say they do not feel identified with either sex. Are notThey say, neither men nor women, at least they are not 24 hours a day or every day.
That “fluidity in gender”, one of many maxims woke that the majority of leftist Executives have accepted as valid, is also transferred to those who say they suffer gender dysphoria, a number of people that has multiplied exponentially in recent years. This has been confirmed by a recent German study that ensures that Less than 50% of young people who are diagnosed as “transgender” remain so after five years.
After that period of time since the diagnosis of “gender dysphoria”, only 36.4% had a confirmed diagnosis. «Diagnostic persistence is less than 50% in all age groups: 27.3% among women between 15 and 19 years old and 49.7% among men between 20 and 24 years old.«confirms the document Gender identity disorders among young people in Germany.
This low diagnostic persistence, the report explains, “is in line with the literature and probably reflects the fluidity of the concept of “gender identity” in childhood and adolescence, but may also indicate the need for a comprehensive and standardized diagnostic procedure.
That is to say, more than 50% of young people diagnosed as ‘transgender’ overcome that diagnosis and accept their birth sex naturally, and in the case of young women that percentage increases to 72.7% —in men it is 50.3%. With these data, the study determines that the withdrawal rate is more than 63%.
Diagnoses have increased by more than 600% in Germany between 2013 and 2022
The German report also insists on what other studies have shown before: from 2013 to 2022 there has been a “dramatic” increase in the number of young people diagnosed with gender identity disorders. The prevalence rate increased from 22.5 cases per 100,000 young people in 2013 to 175.7 cases per 100,000 in 2022, representing a increase of almost 681%. The highest prevalence in 2022 was observed among girls aged 15 to 19, with a rate of 452.6 cases per 100,000.
Furthermore, the study reflects that there are some specific psychological health conditions that are recurrent among those diagnosed with gender identity disorders. In 2022, 72.4% of those people had at least one other psychiatric diagnosis. The most common conditions included depressive disorders (57.5% of girls and 49.% of boys), of anxiety (34% of girls and 23.5% of boys) and borderline personality (17.6% of girls, 12.1% of boys). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and post-traumatic stress disorder were also frequently observed.
A “temporary” disorder
The German report concludes that many young people can resolve their “gender incongruence” without the need for medical treatment long-term and recommends considering the high prevalence of co-occurring mental disorders when initiating “gender adjustment therapy” in adolescence. That is, it results from the theory shared by many professionals and previous studies that “Gender dissatisfaction” during adolescence is often temporary and tends to decrease with age.