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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Longterm study of transsexuals in Sweden over 30 years from 1973 to 2003 found

Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885

In August 2020, the American Journal of Psychiatry had to issue a correction to a paper published in 2019 that claimed there were demonstrable mental health benefits to transition-related surgeries.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.1778correction

The article that was corrected: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.1778correction

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19010080

Discussion of the paper & the correction from GenderHQ, which describes itself as "A RESOURCE & COMMUNITY FOR LGBT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PROMOTE THE LONG-TERM PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH OF GENDER DYSPHORIC YOUTH." (sorry for the shouty caps, that's how it comes off via c&p):

https://www.genderhq.org/blog/2020/8/19/american-journal-of-psychiatry-study-purported-to-show-benefits-of-transgender-medical-transition-made-false-claims

[–]adolf512 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The first study used the general population as comparason group, not individuals who didn't transition.

The second study did show long-term outcomes to be better than short term.

https://www.reddit.com/r/transmaxxing/comments/j2xx1x/longterm_outcomes/