Stability After Legal Gender Change Among Adults With Gender Dysphoria.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The number of people seeking treatment for gender dysphoria (GD) has risen in recent decades, yet data remain limited for understanding cases of detransition (ie, the reversal of social, medical, or legal transition). Legal gender change in national registers poses an opportunity to examine legal gender reversals, which may reflect an aspect of the detransition process, while also informing an understanding of the stability after a legal gender change.

Objective

To determine the probability of obtaining a legal gender change and its stability over time among people diagnosed with GD in Sweden during a 10-year study period.

Design, setting, and participants

In this population cohort study using data from Swedish national registers from January 1, 2013, to De

SUBMITTER: Clark KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12411971 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature