Wed Jan 25, 2023 – 6:32 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A new study examining the impact of cross-sex hormones on the mental health of adolescents has been misrepresented by mainstream media outlets that highlight cases of improved mental health and belittle those with increased suicidality after taking the drugs.
The study, titled “Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones,” was published on January 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine and was conducted because “limited prospective outcome data exist regarding transgender and nonbinary [sic] youth” who take cross sex hormones in the name of “transitioning.”
Researchers analyzed the “individual trajectories of appearance congruence, depression, anxiety, positive affect, and life satisfaction” of 315 participants between the ages 12 and 20. All participants identified as either “transgender” or “nonbinary” and were taking cross-sex hormones. Changes in these categories were monitored over a two-year period.
Twenty-five of the 315 young people involved in the study “had received previous pubertal suppression treatment.” The researchers concluded that “increases in appearance congruence were associated with concurrent increases in positive affect and life satisfaction and decreases in depression and anxiety symptoms.”
However, the results also show that “the most
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