Damning study into children who receive gender affirming care

A recently released study out of Finland ( released 2nd April 2026 ) shows that gender confused teenagers suffer worse mental outcomes after they have received the so called "gender affirming care".

Our children are being lied to, deceived and clearly no transparency in relation to gender affirming care and told they will feel better after they have received such care.

This study, along with studies like the Cass Review (you can find this in the links section of this site https://www.leaveourkidzalone.org/links) as well as other studies show this is far from the case.

The study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked over 2,000 individuals under the age of 23 who contacted specialist gender identity services in Finland between 1996 and 2019. Each participant was matched with eight population controls for comparison, giving researchers a large and nationally representative picture of psychiatric need over nearly three decades.

Professor Kaltiala one of the researchers from Tampere University, Finland’s Youth Gender Clinic since 201, as well as serving on the UK Cass Review Advisory Board.

Data from the Study

Link to Study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.70533

Aim: To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment.

Results: Gender-referred adolescents showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls both before (45.7% vs. 15.0%) and ≥ 2 years after referral (61.7% vs. 14.6%). Those referred after 2010 had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts, both before (47.9% vs. 15.3%) and ≥ 2 years after (61.3% vs. 14.2%) referral. Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up—rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment. After adjusting for prior psychiatric treatment, all gender-referred adolescents had similarly elevated risks of psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times higher than female controls and five times higher than male controls.