Jan 16, 2023
(LifeSiteNews) - A left-wing study conducted in the Netherlands attempts to dismiss people who regret their attempts to "transition" to the opposite sex by claiming that they do so because of "internalized transphobia." The study, published last month in MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) as part of the organization's "Special Issue on LGBTQI+ Health," focuses on "identifying coping strategies" used by those who pursue cross-sex hormones and surgeries as they try to "transition" to the opposite sex. Based on the experiences of 19 participants, the five researchers claimed that dissatisfaction with medical "gender transition" is a "maladaptive" coping mechanism grounded in so-called "internalized transphobia." They stated that the "increased number of stressors transgender [sic] individuals experience" can be categorized as either "distal (e.g., discrimination)" or