Gender-reassigned face health hurdles: study - The Local

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Gender-reassigned face health hurdles: study - The Local

This year 60 people have applied to change their sex in Sweden. Most gender-reassigned people achieve a better life through their surgery, but a new study shows that the risk of attempted suicide and psychological problems remains high, Dagens Nyheter reports.

“For most transsexual people, their life improves, but it’s not easy immediately after the operation,” Cecilia Dhejne, a scientist and doctor at Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, told the newspaper.

...But the researcher believes that the majority of gender-reassigned benefit from surgery, a thesis backed up by another new study from Lund. With 60 participants,the study shows that nearly all had a better life five years after their operations. Their work situations, relationships and sex lives had all improved.