Earlier in the year, the Florida Department of Health used a statistic as it advised against medical transitioning for minors. Experts PolitiFact interviewed said the statistic was mischaracterized.
to determine whether gender incongruence will"resolve itself" for a large cohort of teenagers.
Not all transgender people experience or are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria diagnoses focus on gender identity-related psychological distress, not gender identity itself. Their review of the studies said they showed that gender dysphoric feelings went away for 85% of children"around or after puberty" — while acknowledging several limitations. ."The lower persistence rates in the earlier studies, compared to the more recent studies after 2000, may be the result of the inclusion of less extreme cases in the earlier studies than in later studies."
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