Medical transition reduces dating pool size and likelihood of marriage

Individuals undergoing biomedical interventions to address their gender dysphoria are at risk for having a greatly diminished pool of individuals who are willing to sustain an intimate physical and loving relationship¹.

This is evidenced in the much lower marriage rates of transgender adults².

1. Levine, S. (2018). Informed Consent for Transgendered Patients. Journal Of Sex & Marital Therapy, 45(3), 218-229. [Link] ↩︎
2. Yarbrough, E. (2018). Transgender mental health. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing. [Link] ↩︎