Britain’s transformation: Analysis shows one in 600 teenagers have identified as transgender seven times since 2000

The number of transgender teenagers has skyrocketed since the turn of the millennium, according to a major study.

The first analysis of British medical records this century found that transgender identity rates have increased fivefold, with the jumps being much greater among young people.

GP data shows that one in 600 16-17 year olds identified as transgender in 2018, compared to just one in 4,300 in 2000.

Experts believe the real number is probably much higher as patients can now self-refer to some clinics without seeing their GP.

Researchers at University College London examined the medical records of more than 7 million patients in 649 general practices in the UK from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2018.

They analyzed diagnostic codes recorded in anonymized data to detect changes over time in the proportion of transgender 10- to 99-year-olds.

Overall, the number of transgender identities in the UK increased fivefold, with the biggest increase among 16- to 29-year-olds.

While about one in 70,000 people in 2000 recently identified as transgender, in 2018 that figure has increased to about 1 in 13,000 people.

However, according to results published in the BMJ, the jump was much greater among 16-17-year-olds, from around one in 4,300 to one in 600.

In other words, by the turn of the century there were virtually no 16-year-olds and 4 in 100,000 17-year-olds coded as transgender in general practices, compared to 78 in 100,000 in 2018.

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Similarly, the number of transgender 18- to 29-year-olds increased from about one in 3,700 to one in 800 over the same period.

Professor Irene Peterson said the increase was “probably due to the fact that many people of this age will be seeking advice from their GP about transgender identity for the first time, whereas people in their 20s may have already had contact with their GP when .” They were teenagers.”

But activists said the rise coincided “with the rise of global trans rights activism” over the same period, aided by tools such as social media.

Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, said: “Transgender identification among children and young people was almost unheard of a decade ago.” We must ask ourselves what is the cause of this new phenomenon.

“Transgender lobby groups like Stonewall have directly targeted children through schools and training that celebrate transgender identities and present unscientific ideas about ‘gender identity’ to children as fact.

“The most vulnerable children are more sensitive to these messages that promise social and medical transformation as a solution to all their problems.”

“The increase in numbers coincides with the rise of global trans rights activism over the same period, along with the means to spread widespread social contagion across social media platforms.”

Researchers found that the proportion of people who identified as transgender was more than twice as high in the socially and economically disadvantaged areas.

Last year, an independent study by dr. Hilary Cass of the Tavistock Gender Clinic highlighted the over-representation of these patient groups in her interim report.

The researchers acknowledge that their findings are based on the coding of transgender identity in general practice clinical records, which may not always be done accurately or at all.

They also note that it may not include the full range of gender identities or non-transition or non-transition decisions and may also contain terms that are now outdated or commonly misapplied.

The registration rate of transgender identity in general practice may also have changed since 2018, they add.