Study: Gender-affirming hormones improve mentalhealth in transgender and nonbinary youth luriechildrens nejm
is appropriate. For minors, parental consent is required to initiate medical treatment.
"The positive findings of this observational study match the lived clinical experience of mental health experts who, in their many years of providing gender-affirming care, have repeatedly learned from the youth themselves about their," said co-author Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health at the UC San Francisco Child and Adolescent Gender Center, and Professor of Pediatrics.
The study, the largest of its kind in the U.S., included 315 transgender and non-binary youth ages 12-20 years. Study visits occurred every six months for two years after treatment initiation, which is the longest follow-up reported to date. Researchers examined measures of appearance congruence, depression, anxiety, positive affect and life satisfaction.
They found that overall, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, while depression and anxiety symptoms decreased. Appearance congruence was associated with each psychosocial outcome assessed at baseline and during the follow-up period. "Our results provide a strong scientific basis that gender-affirming care is crucial for the psychological well-being of our patients," said co-author Robert Garofalo, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator for the study at Lurie Children's, Co-Director of Lurie Children's Gender and Sex Development Program and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine."We must ensure that access to this care remains available to youth with gender dysphoria.
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