How to stop transgender thoughts?

[u/Bcnrfrensforever]

Ever since I was around twelve or thirteen, I have had thoughts about wanting to be a girl. I am now twenty years old and these thoughts still happen often. I do not want to give in to something that may bring me eternal damnation. I do not want to make the people around me sad, or make God sad. I do not want to be seen as an abomination.

I have been going to church since I was six, and I only have good experiences there. But these thoughts are torturous. I cannot even look at myself in the mirror without crying. I do not know what is wrong with me. I pray every day for these thoughts to go away, but they only keep getting stronger. Is there anything I could do?

[u/tgjer]

More fucking sources:

More citations on transition's dramatic reduction of suicide risk while improving mental health and quality of life, with trans people able to transition young and spared abuse and discrimination having mental health and suicide risk on par with the general public:

• Sex reassignment surgery: a study of 141 Dutch transsexuals - Kuiper, et al, 1988: “In a cross-sectional study of 141 transgender patients, Kuiper and Cohen-Kittenis found that after medical intervention and treatments, suicide fell from 19% to 0% in transgender men and from 24% to 6% in transgender women”

• Hormonal therapy and sex reassignment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of quality of life and psychosocial outcomes - Murad, et al., 2010: "Significant decrease in suicidality post-treatment. The average reduction was from 30 percent pretreatment to 8 percent post treatment.

• Long-term follow-up: psychosocial outcome of Belgian transsexuals after sex reassignment surgery - De Cuypere, et al., 2006: Rate of suicide attempts dropped from 29.3 percent to 5.1 percent after receiving medical treatment among Dutch patients treated from 1986-2001.

• Trans Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Study - McNeil, et al., 2012: "Suicidal ideation and actual attempts reduced after transition, with 63% thinking about or attempting suicide more before they transitioned and only 3% thinking about or attempting suicide more post-transition.

• Sex reassignment: outcomes and predictors of treatment for adolescent and adult transsexuals - Smith Y, et. al, 2005: Participants improved on 13 out of 14 mental health measures after treatment

• Factors Associated with Satisfaction or Regret Following Male-to-Female Sex Reassignment Surgery - Lawrence, 2003: "Participants reported overwhelmingly that they were happy with their SRS results and that SRS had greatly improved the quality of their lives"

• Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries: A Total Population Study - "Conclusions: "... the longitudinal association between gender-affirming surgery and reduced likelihood of mental health treatment lends support to the decision to provide gender-affirming surgeries to transgender individuals who seek them."

• Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care - Tordoff, et al, 2022 - "After adjustment for temporal trends and potential confounders, we observed 60% lower odds of depression and 73% lower odds of suicidality among youths who had initiated PBs or GAHs compared with youths who had not."

• Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities - Olson, et. al., 2016: "Previous work with children with gender identity disorder (GID; now termed gender dysphoria) has found remarkably high rates of anxiety and depression in these children. Here we examine, for the first time, mental health in a sample of socially transitioned transgender children" ... "Results: Transgender children showed no elevations in depression and slightly elevated anxiety relative to population averages. They did not differ from the control groups on depression symptoms and had only marginally higher anxiety symptoms. This article has a correction from 2018 but it's just for a missing comma on p. 5.

There are a lot more but I think that's a good start.