The participants answered several questions about their mental health, including their history of suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, and their history of binge drinking and illicit drug use. Results were analyzed based on when participants began hormone therapy: 119 began at age 14 or 15 (early adolescence), 362 began at age 16 or 17 (late adolescence), 12,257 began after their 18th birthday (adulthood), and 8,860 participants, who served as the control group, wanted but never received hormone therapy. Participants, who were at least 18 when they were surveyed, completed extensive questionnaires about their lives.īecause some transgender people do not want hormone treatment, the study focused on 21,598 participants who had reported that they wanted to receive hormones. Transgender Survey, which comprises survey responses from 27,715 transgender people nationwide. The researchers analyzed data from the 2015 U.S.
The senior author is Alex Keuroghlian, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute. “We are adding to the evidence base that shows why gender-affirming care is beneficial from a mental health perspective.” “This study is particularly relevant now because many state legislatures are introducing bills that would outlaw this kind of care for transgender youth,” said Jack Turban, MD, a postdoctoral scholar in pediatric and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford Medicine. In adolescence, hormone therapy can enable a transgender teenager to go through puberty in a way that matches their gender identity. Gender-affirming hormone treatment with estrogen or testosterone can help bring a transgender person’s physical characteristics in line with their gender identity. The study also documented better mental health among those who received hormones at any age than those who desired but never received the treatment. The new study found that transgender people who began hormone treatment in adolescence had fewer thoughts of suicide, were less likely to experience major mental health disorders and had fewer problems with substance abuse than those who started hormones in adulthood. transgender adults, a group of more than 27,000 people who responded in 2015.
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12 in PLOS ONE, drew on data from the largest-ever survey of U.S. For transgender people, starting gender-affirming hormone treatment in adolescence is linked to better mental health than waiting until adulthood, according to new research led by the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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