TY - JOUR T1 - Viewpoint: How well do doctors understand gender dysphoria in young people? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 555 LP - 555 DO - 10.3399/bjgp19X706289 VL - 69 IS - 688 AU - Sara Dahlen Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/69/688/555.abstract N2 - ‘They’re experimenting on young people with their lives ahead of them. It makes me angry.’So says a young person opening a Swedish documentary (Uppdrag granskning, The Trans Train, which aired in 2019) on the complex topic of gender dysphoria in teenage biological females: a group who are presenting to their GPs and requesting medical interventions and transition to a masculine or non-binary gender role in unprecedented numbers.At the heart of the film are two stories of young women who later regretted their gender transition, and have returned to identify as their original, natal sex: a phenomenon known as detransition. ‘Mika’ was unaware that regret was even a possibility when she embarked on hormone therapy … ER -