Correction: Transgender Surgery Provides No Mental Health Benefit

September 14, 2020 | by Andre Van Mol, Michael K. Laidlaw, Miriam Grossman and Paul McHugh

The American Journal of Psychiatry has issued a major correction to a recent study. The Bränström study reanalysis demonstrated that neither “gender-affirming hormone treatment” nor “gender-affirming surgery” reduced the need of transgender-identifying people for mental health services. Fad medicine is bad medicine, and gender-anxious people deserve better.