A new Finnish study shows that young people who received hormone therapy for gender dysphoria were more likely to require psychiatric care after treatment. The study challenges the claim that hormone therapy is the standard treatment when people express doubts about their gender identity.
The researchers In Finland, researchers analyzed data from registries and medical records for 2,083 people under the age of 23 who sought care for gender dysphoria between 1996 and 2019. They compared this group with a larger group of over 16,000 people of the same age.
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