(ETH) – A new report coming out of Sweden is revealing an explosion of gender dysphoria among teens over the past ten years. According to the Guardian Sweden’s Board of Health and Welfare has confirmed a 1,500 percent rise in gender dysphoria diagnoses among 13-to 17-year-olds born as girls between 2008 and 2018.
In the fall of 2018, the government proposed a law pushed by the Swedish LGBT group RFSL that would reduce the minimum age for sex reassignment medical care from 18 to 15, remove all need for parental consent, and allow children as young as 12 to change their legal gender.
Public backlash against the proposed law began in March of last year when Christopher Gillberg, a psychiatrist at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy wrote an op-ed in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper cautioned that surgery and hormone treatments conducted on children was a “big experiment” which could become one of the Scandinavian country’s worst medical scandals, according to The Guardian.
Then last October, an investigative news program looked into the methods used at Stockholm’s Karolinska University hospital, which specializes in treating minors with gender dysphoria. The hospital has been criticized for performing double mastectomies on self-identifying transgenders as young as 14. READ MORE
