On this episode of Solid Ground, Simon wishes everyone a happy Easter and shares some photos from his trip to Jerusalem at the same time last year. He also celebrates the achievements of the Artemis II crew and space rocket, now having taken humans the furthest from earth and back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years. He then shares breaking news from a Finnish study which shows that the mental health of young people with gender dysphoria gets much worse if they start using puberty blockers and move onto the likes of cross-sex hormones and surgery. The study clearly debunks the trope that such drugs and surgeries are needed to improve the mental health of young people, and strongly states that psychological care is what is needed – otherwise, as the study notes, the mental health of patients goes from bad to worse.
