Gender-affirming surgery benefits long-term mental health: study
Hormonal treatment alone in people with gender incongruence does not seem to be as effective
When transgender people undergo sex-reassignment surgery, their mental health keeps improving for years afterwards, a study suggests.
Swedish and Yale researchers examined 2015 mental health data for the entire Swedish population to see whether having hormone treatment or gender-affirming surgery improved outcomes for people with a diagnosis of gender incongruence.
Over the preceding decade, 2679 people had received a diagnosis of gender incongruence out of the total population of 9.7 million.
For the 48% of transgender individuals who had gender-affirming surgery, the longer the time since the procedure, the better their mental health, the authors found.
