I found an article today: “Mental Health Diagnoses among Transgender Patients in the Clinical Setting: An All-Payer Electronic Health Record Study,” published in Transgender Health. Transgender Health is a peer-reviewed specialty journal recognized in the field.
The study “performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses among transgender patients in clinical care using an all-payer electronic health record database.” The population sample was large—60 million patients nationwide.
The researchers found that “58% (n=5,940) of transgender patients had at least one psychiatric diagnosis, compared with 13.6% (n=7,311,780) in the control patient population.” The study concluded: “Transgender patients had a statistically significant increase in prevalence for all psychiatric diagnoses queried, with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder being the most common diagnoses (31% and 12%, respectively).”
Think about that: a journal in the field of transgender health published a 2019 study showing a high rate of psychiatric illness among a majority of trans-identifying patients. This wasn’t a red flag?
And this isn’t the only red flag.
In 2016, Project LifeSkills (JAMA Pediatrics) found that, among 298 young transgender women (ages 16–29), 41.5% had at least one psychiatric diagnosis, and 20.1% had two or more—high rates of mood disorders, PTSD, and more. (“≥” means one or more.)
A 2022 study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that transgender and gender-diverse individuals averaged 3.54 psychiatric diagnoses, including borderline personality disorder and PTSD.
A 2016 article in the French journal Encéphale reported that 32–44% of children and teens in gender identity clinics had co-occurring disorders.
Some studies report that as many as 85% of trans-identifying individuals have one or more psychiatric disorders.
If the DSM (the American psychiatric manual) had not removed “gender identity disorder,” then 100 percent of such patients would still be identified as having at least one psychiatric disorder.
The French study noted that psychiatric comorbidities are more common in male-to-female transsexuals (a term now eschewed by the industry). It added: “Data on long-term mortality show that transsexuals present a 51% increase in mortality compared to the general population. This is mainly attributed to a six-fold increase in suicides.”
The authors concluded: “Transgender individuals suffer from more psychiatric pathologies compared to the general population. This may be due to social and familial discrimination and ostracism. These results demonstrate the vulnerability of this population. An awareness program for mental health professionals is essential to adapt care to the specific needs of this population. A list of ‘non-transphobic’ mental health professionals should be established.”
“This may be due to social and familial discrimination and ostracism.” This emotional blackmail used by trans activists and the medical industry to shame those who doubt or deny the possibility that a person cannot be born in the wrong body.
This is what happens when ideology captures a profession and corrupts it. What should be treated as a psychiatric matter has been redefined as a “way of being” and normalized. The cause of self-harm is attributed not to the disorder, but to those who refuse to affirm a delusion.
And the ideological capture isn’t limited to psychiatry. Endocrinology has also been taken over, with “gender-affirming care” reclassified as “endocrine disorders” to bypass insurance restrictions and deceive states that have limited these practices.
Surgery, too, has been captured—healthy breasts amputated, penises inverted, flesh from arms used to construct faux phalluses. These procedures routinely create lifelong medical patients. More money for the industry. (I will spare you the pictures, but you can easily find them by performing a Google search. Try these search terms: “phalloplasty”; “vaginoplasty.”)
What should be a healthcare field has become an ideologically driven, profit-generating industry.
To call this stituation tragic is an extreme understatement.
The latest devastating news from the Minneapolis shooting: Robert Westman wrote in his notebook that he was no longer comfortable identifying as trans and regretted convincing himself he was a woman. (That this story remains at the top of the Google news index—and the manifesto was publicly released—suggests that the political terrain is changing. Let’s hope so.)
He isn’t alive to blame himself anymore. But others are still here—and should be asking what they did. Westman surely had a lot of help in sustaining that delusion. His parents didn’t help; his own mother accompanied him to court to petition for a legal name and sex change.
This is the power of mass psychogenic illness. One of its consequences is children murdered in pews as they attend Mass.
Secretary Robert Kennedy and HHS need to stop this madness, launch a full review of these practices, and hold accountable those who organized and participated in this industry.
We need a public Nuremberg-style tribunal—a “Doctors’ Trial 2.0.” The public deserves to know everything.
For the record, HIPAA—the 1996 US federal law that protects sensitive patient health information (PHI)—was never meant to shield doctors who harm patients or engage in misconduct. Authorities need to release the relevant information. Parents need to understand what a scam this is.
We also need a complete overhaul of public education. Purge these institutions of radical gender ideology. Administrators, counselors, and teachers are grooming these kids.
A great many people who are dead today would still be alive if society had not gone down this path. We said “Never again” after the Holocaust. What in the hell happened?
I don’t do this for my emotional well-being. The more I dig, the worse it is for my mood. But we have to talk about this. I’m just one person. I will do what I can.
freedom and reason 