Research Conducted at University Medical Center Munster Has Updated Our Knowledge about Transgender Health (Longitudinal Trends of Health Service Utilization for Gender Dysphoria In Germany Between 2010 and 2021 Based On Health Insurance Data): Health and Medicine – Transgender Health

2026 JUN 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine - Transgender Health. According to news reporting originating in Munster, Germany, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Since there is little data on the use of health services by minor patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria (GD), we performed an analysis of German claims data to compare characteristics of gender health service utilization in minors and adults. We investigated trends in health service utilization, hormonal treatment initiation, and sex ratios for GD between 2010 and 2021.”

Financial support for this research came from German Federal Joint Committee Innovation Funds.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from University Medical Center Munster, “We compared the age groups of minors and young adults, as well as patients assigned female and male at birth. Within the study period, GD incidence changed from 14 to 48 per 100,000 insured persons (RR per year = 1.12, 95% CI = 1.11-1.13) in minors and from 12 to 39 per 100,000 (RR = 1.15 per year, CI = 1.14-1.16) in adults. The majority of minors (72%) as well as adults (67%) in this study were patients assigned female at birth. The proportion of patients who started hormonal treatments within two years after initial diagnosis was relatively higher in those assigned female at birth (34%) than among those assigned male at birth (20%) among minors, but relatively lower in those assigned female at birth (50%) than among those assigned male at birth (63%) among adult patients. The incidence of health service utilization for GD under the age of 30 has increased substantially since 2010.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “However, similar time trends and sex ratios in adults (18-30 y) and adolescents (13-17 y) indicate that the reported trends are not specific to adolescents.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Longitudinal Trends of Health Service Utilization for Gender Dysphoria In Germany Between 2010 and 2021 Based On Health Insurance Data. International Journal of Transgender Health, 2026. International Journal of Transgender Health can be contacted at: Taylor & Francis Inc, 530 Walnut Street, Ste 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Georg Romer, University Medical Center Munster, Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy & Psychosomat, Schmeddingstr 50, D-48149 Munster, Germany. Additional authors for this research include Katja Nettermann, Alicia Basoglu, Andre Karch, Ursula Marschall, Joachim Saam, Uwe Nussbaum, Hans-Helmut Konig, Dirk Heider and Angela Rolver.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1080/26895269.2026.2666229. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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