Category: Sexuality
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60% of males and 70% of females attending the world’s largest gender clinic (GIDS) are same-sex attracted
In the 2015 statistics from GIDS, approximately 60% of the youth seen there who were biological males and 70% who were biological females reported attraction to the same sex or to both sexes1.
The 2015 Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) statistics revealed a notably high rate of same-sex attraction among the youth seen at their clinic. Over half of the biological females reported same-sex attraction, about 20% were attracted to both sexes, and a quarter to the opposite sex, with the remaining identifying as asexual. Among biological males, approximately 30% reported same-sex attraction, another 30% to both sexes, 30% to the opposite sex, with the last 10% identifying as asexual or reporting no sexual attraction.
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In one study of detransitioners, males were three times more likely than females to have transitioned for erotic reasons
In a study1 of 100 detransitioners, 38.7% of males identified with the comment “I had erotic reasons for wanting to transition”.
The figure for females was a third of this, at 13%.
- Littman, L. (2021). Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners. Arch Sex Behav. [Link] ↩︎
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In one study, female detransitioners were three times more likely to be lesbians than to be straight
A study1 of 100 detransitioners, the majority of whom were female, showed that 26.1% of the females were homosexual before they transitioned.
Only 8.7% considered themselves heterosexual.
- Littman, L. (2021). Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners. Arch Sex Behav. [Link] ↩︎
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One study of detransitioners found that a large proportion of them believed, in hindsight, that they were suffering from internalized homophobia
A study of 100 detransitioners1 found that homophobia or difficulty accepting themselves as lesbian, gay, or bisexual was expressed by 23.0% as a reason for transition and subsequent detransition.
In another study of detransitioners and desisters2 – most of whom were detransitioners who had undergone medical transition – 52% expressed a psychological need for learning to cope with internalized homophobia.
- Littman, L. (2021). Individuals Treated for Gender Dysphoria with Medical and/or Surgical Transition Who Subsequently Detransitioned: A Survey of 100 Detransitioners. Arch Sex Behav. [Link] ↩︎
- Vandenbussche, E. (2021). Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey. Journal of Homosexuality. [Link] ↩︎
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Young people who desist from a trans identity are disproportionately likely to grow up to be non-heterosexual
A Dutch paper1 notes that, for gender dysphoric children, the more likely psychosexual outcome in adulthood is a homosexual sexual orientation without gender dysphoria.
Evidence2 suggests that many boys whose childhood gender dysphoria recedes with puberty will grow up to be bisexual or homosexual. Another study of males3 indicates that bisexual/homosexual orientation is far greater than base rates in the general male population, with 63.6% of boys with gender identity disorder being same-sex attracted.
This suggests that a non-heterosexual orientation is particularly likely among gender dysphoric boys.
- Wallien, M.S. & Cohen-Kettenis P.T. (2008) Psychosexual outcome of gender-dysphoric children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 47 (12): 1413-23. [Link] ↩︎
- Kaltiala-Heino, R., Bergman, H., Työläjärvi, M., & Frisén, L. (2018). Gender dysphoria in adolescence: current perspectives. Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics 9, 31–41. [Link] ↩︎
- Singh, D. (2012). A follow-up study of boys with gender identity disorder. Doctoral thesis, University of Toronto. [Link] ↩︎
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One study showed that, without social transition, nearly two-thirds of pre-teen gender-dysphoric males grow up to be gay or bisexual
A University of Toronto study1 found that 63.6% of boys with early onset gender dysphoria, who received ‘watchful waiting’ treatment and no pre-pubertal social transition, grew up to be gay or bisexual.
Only 12% of the study participants continued to identify as transfeminine.
- Singh, D., Bradley, S.J. & Zucker, K.J. (2021). A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology 12. [Link] ↩︎
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One study found that adulthood homosexuality was 8 to 15 times higher for participants with a history of gender variance
In a 20-year follow-up1 of children, it was found that adulthood homosexuality was 8 to 15 times higher for participants with a history of gender variance.