Gender dysphoria

Up until a few years ago most people had never heard of transgenderism. There is a medical condition known as gender dysphoria where a person has a sense of unease that there is a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. This first occurs at ages 2 to 4 and more often in males. According to Black's Medical Dictionary, gender dysphoria occurs in one in 30,000 male births and one in 100,000 female births. If left alone 70% will out grow this but the rest either are gay or transsexual. In 2007 the first gender clinic was founded and today there are 300 and growing. In 2017 15,000 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria and in 2021 the number was 42,000. One of the reasons for the increase is that many teen girls exhibit problems like bulimia, cutting, depression and attempted suicide are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. There is a serious problem with data on transgender. As stated about gender dysphoria occurs one in 65,000 births and there 3.5 million births which means 53 babies born each year with gender dysphoria. However another report from Mt Sinai hospital says an estimated 1.4 million people in the U.S. are transgender, which comes at a heavy price. The cost of medical treatments can add up to more than $100,000. One of these reports is wrong or there are many more people falsely diagnosed. An argument against these early diagnoses is that a young girl may just be going through a stage and someone steps in and tells her the solution to her problem is to change genders. This is all so new that caution should be used before making irreversible life altering changes.