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Old 02-11-2026, 04:57 PM   #689
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I believe the ~3.7K surgeries for 12-18 year olds in that study is supposed to refer only to transgender patients. Basically, they used diagnosis codes to filter patients to include only those with a history of gender dysphoria or sex reassignment.

But there are some caveats with that number:

1) It's over 5 years, so an average of under 750 per year which isn't particularly high in a country of 330 million people.

2) Some surgeries would naturally be unrelated to gender-affirming care. For instance, an 18 year old having a medically necessary hysterectomy would appear in that sample if they had any history of gender dysphoria/disorder. Similarly, a 12-18 year old female who had a history of gender dysphoria who then had a mammaplasty (breast reduction or augmentation) would appear in these numbers, even if they were cisgender and no longer identified as transgender. Because we're dealing with pretty tiny numbers relative to the population at large, it doesn't take a lot of unique cases like that to really skew things.
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