[Sex/gender ratio of adolescents with gender dysphoria of the Gender Identity Treatment Unit of Asturias]. 2021

María Fernández Rodríguez, and Patricia Guerra Mora, and Ana Isabel Revuelta Fernández, and Ana Villaverde González
CSM I La Magdalena y Unidad de Tratamiento de la Identidad de Género (UTIGPA). SESPA, Área III, Avilés, Asturias, España.

OBJECTIVE Demand from minors with complaints of gender dysphoria has increased in recent years. This increase has been more pronounced in adolescent trans men in some international research studies. The first objective of this research study was to determine the sex/gender ratio of minors requesting a consultation in the Gender Identity Treatment Unit of the Principality of Asturias (UTIGPA) and presenting complaints of gender dysphoria. The second objective was to analyse the relationship of the sex/gender ratio with the age variable at which they requested the first consultation and the year in which they requested it. METHODS The sample consisted of 42 children under 18, attended between January 2016 and January 2019. The medical records were then reviewed to obtain information. Descriptive statistics were analysed with the collected data. RESULTS The sex / gender ratio over the period was 2/1 in favour of trans men. The average age at the request for consultation was 15.02 years (SD=1.84), with a range of 6 to 17 years. A higher percentage of applications was recorded (35.7%) in 2018, mostly made by trans men (93.3%). CONCLUSIONS There was an inversion of the sex/gender ratio, a favour of trans men, over the last 3years, and an increase in the number of applications by adolescent trans men, coinciding with several international investigations.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D005260 Female Females
D005783 Gender Identity A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role. Gender,Gender Identities,Identity, Gender
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000068116 Gender Dysphoria A marked difference between the individual’s expressed/experienced gender and the gender others would assign to the individual, and it must continue for at least six months. (from DSM-5) Gender Identity Disorder,Disorder, Gender Identity,Gender Identity Disorders,Identity Disorder, Gender
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D012744 Sex Ratio The number of males per 100 females. Ratio, Sex,Ratios, Sex,Sex Ratios
D014189 Transsexualism Expression of a GENDER IDENTITY inconsistent with, or not culturally-associated with the gender assigned to an individual at birth, combined with the desire to permanently transition to the gender with which they identify. Gender Fluidity,Transexualism,Transgenderism,Fluidity, Gender,Gender Fluidities,Transexualisms
D057829 Sex Reassignment Procedures Clinical treatments used to change the physiological sexual characteristics of an individual. Gender Change Procedures,Gender Confirmation Procedures,Gender Reassignment Procedures,Sex Change Procedures,Gender Change Procedure,Gender Confirmation Procedure,Gender Reassignment Procedure,Sex Change Procedure,Sex Reassignment Procedure

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