The number of Swedish girls ages 13 to 17 diagnosed with gender dysphoria rose 1,500 percent between 2008 and 2018, according to a recent report from the country’s Board of Health and Welfare.
The findings, reported by The Guardian, comes as officials face backlash over a proposed law that would ease most restrictions for minors wishing to transition away from their biological sex through surgery or hormones. Specifically, the law would reduce the minimum age for sex-reassignment treatment from 18 to 15, and allow children as young as 12 to change their legal gender. The law, originally proposed in the fall of 2018, would also eliminate parental consent for such treatments.
According to the newspaper, Sweden’s government was under mounting pressure to pass the law by the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Rights, a 70-year-old activist group.
But last spring, experts began to question such treatments on minors, saying there was not enough research and that some medical facilities were pushing the treatments on confused minors, the paper reported. Among them was Christopher Gillberg, a psychiatrist at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy. Gillberg sounded the alarm in an article he wrote for the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, calling both surgery and hormone treatment on children “a big experiment.”
His concern about identifying…
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