Parents felt pressure from gender clinics to transition children, study finds

The Study pretty much confirms what we already knew. Gender "Medical Professionals" pressure parents and kids to "Transition" and give them LOTS of money. Then the kids find out that hey, I still am not better. That is OK though, the Doctors are quite happy with the profits and Social Media is really driving it.

Europe is ditching this crazy and starting to protect their minors from this crazy. Go figure


A newly released study found that parents who took their adolescent children to gender clinics said they experienced pressure to agree to the transition process and that their children’s well-being was worse, not better, afterward.

Washington Times Link

The findings of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases,” published Wednesday in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, lent support to the theory that the surge in gender-switching adolescents is rooted in a social contagion stoked by media, peers and gender clinicians.

Of the 390 parents who said they had visited a gender clinic or specialist, 51.8% said they felt pressured to transition their child socially or medically, 23.6% said they did not feel pressured and 24.6% said they were unsure.

The results echo the concerns of whistleblower Jamie Reed, a former caseworker who accused doctors of pushing puberty blockers, hormones and even surgeries on adolescents at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The state of Missouri and the university are investigating.

Asked how children’s depression, anxiety and gender dysphoria had changed after transitioning, the study found that “parents were much more likely to say that the youth had worsened than improved” in psychological functioning and in relationships with parents.

STUDY:

Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases

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a reply to: infolurker

The people involved were listening to the children not the parents, so they relayed their children's feeling and wants. Where is the pressure?

a reply to: quintessentone

What is unclear?



link.springer.com...

Parents reported that they had often felt pressured by clinicians to affirm their AYA child’s new gender and support their transition. According to the parents, AYA children’s mental health deteriorated considerably after social transition.

Parents were much more likely to say that the youth had worsened than improved. The one-sample t-test comparing the sample mean 2.1 with 3, the score signifying no change, was highly significant, t(566) = − 24.6, p 

a reply to: quintessentone

One statistically robust finding was both disturbing and seemingly important. Youths with a history of mental health issues were especially likely to have taken steps to socially and medically transition. This relationship held even after statistically adjusting for likely confounders (e.g., age).

The finding is concerning because youth with mental health issues may be especially likely to lack judgment necessary to make these important, and in the case of medical transition permanent, decisions.

The finding supports the worries of parents whose preferences differ from their gender dysphoric children. It is consistent with another finding of this study that parents believed gender clinicians and clinics pressured the families toward transition. The finding is particularly concerning given that parents tended to rate their children as worse off after transition.

a reply to: infolurker

You are unclear. You seem confused.

Now who pays for it? How are health insurance companies covering this or not covering this or is this all classified selective surgery with no co-pay and then guilt parents in to trans surgery procedures that they pay out of pocket like used car salesman tactics.
So is it pressure for parent's to pay for medical procedures out of pocket to make money.
Society now is having a Transgender child for leftist's is the latest virtual signaling excuse compared to past times buying ugg's trend and the latest and greatest breed of dog to show off in the neighborhood development

a reply to: EmeraldCoastFreedm

Bi sorry typo...lack of empathy...sorry typo...check yourself.

originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: EmeraldCoastFreedm

Bi sorry typo...lack of empathy...sorry typo...check yourself.

Ok after multiple threads replying to you I have realized you are just dissension, this is my last reply to you since you seem to never have any substance.

I knew of a boy who was kind of shy that was talked into transitioning about six years ago....the psychiatrist he was seeing gave a recommendation that it should be covered by medicaid and he is supposedly now just as unhappy as a girl. He was seventeen at the time this was going on. But now he is stuck being poor so the procedure is covered by medicaid.

He was shy, he would have grown out of it, I have known lots of kids that were like him (shy introvert) over the years, they have normal lives. He wanted to be a girl so he could go out with girls....sounds kind of weird to me.

I have not heard anything at all about this guy now girl anymore, the last I heard he was in worse mental anguish than he was back then. Some kids in school were actually encouraging him to transition. I do not think that kids should be encouraging a change like this to anyone who is meek and mild like he was.

I know a couple of other people who started the transition too, being convinced it would help them...but I did not know them very well, so I did not hear how things went other than that after a while they were no better off attitude wise.

Maybe it helps some, but from what I have observed, most people do not benefit in the long term.

I feel sorry for those people, especially the young, that are conned into believing it will fix their problems to feed money to the medical industry and pharma industry. That is my opinion. Everyone is different, guys do not need to be macho, girls do not have to be feminine...and those who want to be gay, it is their choice, they can change their mind and go straight later in life. But all the money spent on this transition is gone and it is not so simple to change back again if they grow up and change their minds. If people want to do this stuff after they are full adults, that is their choice, but they should not even promote this for the young...their minds are not fully developed till they are in their twenties....and some never grow up.

a reply to: rickymouse

What matters is support for the person even if we don't understand...and we we won't understand. Be kind be your loving self, be who God wants you to be.

I have a niece going through ftm procedures atleast she waited until her mid 20's.I honestly think she is doing it because her wife is more into an organ that her realationship doesnt have. So.my neice is trying to fight against it and fill the part of someone she loves vision. And they are both sexually confused at this point.
How can
you be in lesbian relationship then out of No where you want your significant other to be the sex you weren't originally attracted to?

a reply to: EmeraldCoastFreedm

No way of knowing...you are not there.

originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: EmeraldCoastFreedm

No way of knowing...you are not there.

Not replying . Good luck on your propaganda run

originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: rickymouse

What matters is support for the person even if we don't understand...and we we won't understand. Be kind be your loving self, be who God wants you to be.

Are you the type of person that would show someone who identified as a bird the way to the elevator?

Enabling is not support.

Hospitals are losing profits, money.
It does seem they are trying another way to gain it.

originally posted by: rickymouse
...and those who want to be gay, it is their choice, they can change their mind and go straight later in life .

I agree with everything you said.

Ummm…except this. What in blazes are you talking about, “they can choose to be gay and decide to go straight later in life?” That’s not the least bit possible and it’s rather insulting to a group of people who don’t deserve to be looped in with these nutty trans activists. Gay and transgender are two immensely different things. One is a natural orientation, no choice involved. The other is mental issues and transitioning is a definite choice, a poor one too.

a reply to: NorthOfStuffx2

Since when do birds need elevators?

a reply to: vNex92

You gotta love Capitalism, so creative, so little contemplation for the greater harm....

we did great let's stay true to it and ride the train over the edge, shall we?

originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: infolurker

You are unclear. You seem confused.

You are just looking for a reaction because you can't come up with anything better. Very weak and pathetic.
Grow up maybe?

here's your problem:

The study was based on 1,665 parents who responded to an online survey from December 2017 through October 2021 about the experiences of their children ages 11-21 on the Parents of ROGD Kids website.

For those not in the know, ROGD is a term - one not even accepted as legitimate by the wider medical community - made up by people who are already against transition. By hosting the survey on the website of people already against their children transitioning you are self-selecting for negative responses about it. I can't stress enough that this is a website set up specifically for parents who don't like their children transitioning to air their grievances together.

So honestly, the fact that FORTY EIGHT PERCENT of responses even here on the "i don't like my child transitioning" website are neutral to positive on the subject really speaks volumes to me.

Meanwhile, in the actual real world, waitlists to get consultations for gender-related care are typically YEARS long, and patients of ANY age must undergo extensive therapy before even low doses of basic blockers will even be considered.

And no, no one is "giving us LOTS of money" to transition. A girl could dream!