The number of children who believe they were "born in the wrong body" in the United Kingdom has skyrocketed over the past decade, according to a new study.
Skyrocketed by fifty times.
The study, published by the Journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, found that diagnoses of gender dysphoria increased from about one in 60,000 in 2010 (equating to just 192 U.K. kids total), to about one in 1,200 by 2021.
For those doing the math, that’s now 10,291 children, up from fewer than 200 a decade ago. Of those, the study found there were least twice as many gender-confused girls as there were boys.
The study also looked at the rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among trans-identifying kids, and found that they were “on par with, or exceeded, levels for those with autism or eating disorders.” More than half of all children diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021 had also been diagnosed with anxiety or depression or had tried to harm themselves, strongly suggesting these young people have a lot more going on than just believing they were born in the wrong body.
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University of York Professor Tim Doran, one of the co-authors of the study, said the prevalence of trans-identifying children is now “much, much, much more common than it used to be 10 years ago.”
Which, I’m sure, has nothing at all to do with the left’s war on gender and veneration of anyone who “comes out” as identifying as something other than their biological sex.
The alarming statistics come after the U.K.’s National Health Service reversed course in April of 2024, saying that they no longer recommend puberty blockers or hormone therapy as routine treatment for gender-confused children, citing concerns over the safety of using artificial chemicals, which are known to cause problems with bone density and fertility, on young children. The NHS also cited studies showing that children who question their gender in early adolescence often end up accepting their biological sex as they reach adulthood. The U.K. government has since banned the use of puberty blockers for children and teens under the age of 18.