‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgery Leaves People Lonelier and Depressed, Study by Transgender Surgery Department Chairman Finds

The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf—seen here on May 30, 2022—carries out transgender procedures, such as “labiaplasty” and breast augmentation. Data collected from 104 transgender patients there informed two studies that found that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether. Axel Heimken/DPA/Getty Images

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The head of a facility that carries out so-called gender-affirming care has published a study confirming that transgender surgeries do not improve mental health and make people feel lonelier than those who avoided surgical intervention altogether.