Nearly everyone who legally switches gender after a gender dysphoria diagnosis sticks with it

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Swedish scientists say there's a 98% chance that people who legally change their gender will not revert back to their initial gender for at least 10 years after the change. The team looked at Swedish national registry data for 7,293 people with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria between 2013 and 2023. Around one-in-three, or 2,467 people, with a diagnosis legally changed their gender during the study period, and just 21 reversed their legal gender change, or fewer than 1% of study subjects.