Major Report Shows Most Trans-Identifying Young People Grow Out of it in 5 Years

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – A major nine-year-long study from Germany has found that two-thirds of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of it within five years, the Washington Stand reports.

The study was conducted by the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance in Germany, which made its findings based on medical billing records for insured people aged 5-24 who were diagnosed with gender identity disorders from 2013 to 2022, the Stand reports.

Titled “Gender identity disorders among young people in Germany: prevalence and trends, 2013–2022. An analysis of nationwide routine insurance data,” the study will be published in English by the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International peer-reviewed journal at the end of June.

The study found that two out of three young people diagnosed with gender dysphoria will stop identifying as a member of the opposite sex within five years.

“Researchers found overall that 63.6% of trans-identifying children and adolescents desisted from their clinically-confirmed gender diagnosis, and “only 36.4% had a confirmed [gender identity disorder] diagnosis after five years,” the Stand said in its report about the study.

“Experts found the majority of all people who identified as transgender desisted during that time frame,” the Stand said. “The most likely group to change its mind is 15-to-19-year-old females, with 72.7% desisting. But a majority (50.3%) of young men who came to their transgender identity in adulthood (males age 20-24) also desisted in five years.”

The study also found that a substantial majority of over 72.4% trans-identifying young people had at least one other psychiatric condition, most commonly depression.

“Trans-identifying young people were most likely to suffer from depressive disorders — an outright majority of females (57.5%) and about half of males (49.3%, female), as well as “anxiety disorders (23.5%/34.0%), emotionally unstable personality disorders of the borderline type (12.1%/17.6%), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (12.7%/12.6%), and post-traumatic stress disorder (9.9%/13.6%),” the Stand said.

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