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The number of teenagers registered as girls at birth who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria has increased by almost 1,500 percent in ten years in Sweden

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      The advice that's often given (including by mental health authorities) is that support and acceptance from family and friends, and acceptance and use of a trans person's name and pronouns, are...

      The advice that's often given (including by mental health authorities) is that support and acceptance from family and friends, and acceptance and use of a trans person's name and pronouns, are protective factors against depression and suicide.

      If there's primary research supporting that correlation (I assume there is, but it's midnight here and I have work tomorrow so I'm resisting the urge to go find it), that'd lend strong support for your way of looking at it.

      Anecdotally, a lot of the depression and anxiety that's connected to transness for me personally is around acceptance, either directly or indirectly. (I was going to share specific examples but I won't, because unlike transness, depression and anxiety probably do have an element of social contagion to them.)

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