Studies Affirm Medical Mutilation Is Mentally Harmful

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In recently published medical studies, numerous scientists confirm that mutilating gender surgeries fail to improve the overall lives of people struggling with gender dysphoria while worsening mental health in most people by increasing feelings of loneliness and increased suicide rates. Peer-reviewed studies suggest mutilating surgeries leave as high as 83 percent of people feeling lonelier and almost 50 percent dissatisfied with their lives after surgery.

Additionally, research finds a 14 percent increase in suicide rate for people who have access to such procedures, such as people in states without a law banning mutilating surgeries.

In a study published May 22, 2023 titled “Loneliness and Social Isolation among Transgender and Gender Diverse People,” researchers at the University of Hamburg Medical Center concluded “…people, who have undergone gender reassignment surgery [generally] feel lonelier” than others who have not had surgery. In a subsequent study published May 30 by the same researchers titled “Are transgender people satisfied with their lives?,” 44 percent of people reported varying levels of dissatisfaction with their lives after irreversible surgeries where 30.1 percent reported “slight” satisfaction and only 1.1 percent reported extreme satisfaction. The authors attributed the higher quality of life satisfaction to higher age groups and noted that younger age groups, such as ages 18 to 29, experienced disproportionally high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury.”