Transexualidad: transiciones, detransiciones y arrepentimientos en España / Transsexuality: Transitions, detransitions, and regrets in Spain

INTRODUCCIÓN: La demanda de atención sanitaria a personas transexuales o con incongruencia de género ha aumentado en los últimos años, sobre todo a expensas de jóvenes y adolescentes. También en paralelo ha aumentado el número de personas que refieren una pérdida o modificación en el sentimiento de género inicialmente expresado. Aunque siguen siendo minoría, nos enfrentamos cada vez más a casos complejos de personas transexuales que solicitan detransicionar y revertir los cambios conseguidos por arrepentimientos. OBJETIVO: Relatar nuestra experiencia con un grupo de personas transexuales en fase de detransición. Analizar su experiencia personal y los conflictos generados y reflexionar sobre estos procesos nunca antes descritos en España. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Cohorte de 796 personas con incongruencia de género atendidas desde enero de 2008 hasta diciembre de 2018 en la Unidad de Identidad de Género del departamento Valencia Doctor Peset. De los 8 casos documentados de detransición y/o desistencia se relatan los 4 más representativos y que consideramos más ilustrativos de esta realidad. RESULTADOS: Las causas observadas que motivaron su detransición fueron la desistencia identitaria, las variantes de género no binarias, la psicomorbilidad asociada y la confusión entre identidad y orientación sexual. CONCLUSIÓN: La detransición es un fenómeno de presentación creciente que conlleva problemas clínicos, psicológicos y sociales. Una incorrecta evaluación y recurrir a la medicalización como única vía de mejora de la disforia en algunos jóvenes puede conducir a posteriores detransiciones. Es fundamental una atención integral dentro de un equipo multidisciplinar con experiencia. A falta de más estudios que determinen posibles factores predictivos de detransición, es recomendable proceder con prudencia en casos de historias identitarias atípicas

INTRODUCTION: Health care demand by transsexual people has recently increased, mostly at the expense of young and adolescents. The number of people who report a loss of or change in the former identity feeling (identity desistance) has also increased. While these are still a minority, we face more and more cases of transsexual people who ask for detransition and reversal of the changes achieved due to regret. OBJECTIVE: To report our experience with a group of transsexual people in detransition phase, and to analyze their personal experience and their associated conflicts. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cohort of 796 people with gender incongruence attending the Identity Gender Unit of Doctor Peset University Hospital from January 2008 to December 2018 was studied. Four of the eight documented cases of detransition and/or regret are reported as the most representative. RESULTS: Causes of detransition included identity desistance, non-binary gender variants, associated psicomorbidities, and confusion between sexual identity and sexual orientation. CONCLUSION: Detransition is a growing phenomenon that implies clinical, psychological, and social issues. Inadequate evaluation and use of medicalization as the only means to improve gender dysphoria may lead to later detransition in some teenagers. Comprehensive care by a multidisciplinary and experienced team is essential. As there are no studies reporting the factors predictive of detransition, caution is recommended in cases of atypical identity courses

Transsexuality: Transitions, detransitions, and regrets in Spain. / Transexualidad: transiciones, detransiciones y arrepentimientos en España.

INTRODUCTION: Health care demand by transsexual people has recently increased, mostly at the expense of young and adolescents. The number of people who report a loss of or change in the former identity feeling (identity desistance) has also increased. While these are still a minority, we face more and more cases of transsexual people who ask for detransition and reversal of the changes achieved due to regret. OBJECTIVE: To report our experience with a group of transsexual people in detransition phase, and to analyze their personal experience and their associated conflicts. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A cohort of 796 people with gender incongruence attending the Identity Gender Unit of Doctor Peset University Hospital from January 2008 to December 2018 was studied. Four of the eight documented cases of detransition and/or regret are reported as the most representative. RESULTS: Causes of detransition included identity desistance, non-binary gender variants, associated psicomorbidities, and confusion between sexual identity and sexual orientation. CONCLUSION: Detransition is a growing phenomenon that implies clinical, psychological, and social issues. Inadequate evaluation and use of medicalization as the only means to improve gender dysphoria may lead to later detransition in some teenagers. Comprehensive care by a multidisciplinary and experienced team is essential. As there are no studies reporting the factors predictive of detransition, caution is recommended in cases of atypical identity courses.

Somatostatin Analogs in Clinical Practice: a Review.

Somatostatin analogs are an invaluable therapeutic option in the diagnosis and treatment of somatotropinomas, thyrotropinomas, and functioning and non-functioning gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. They should also be considered an effective and safe therapeutic alternative to corticotropinomas, gonadotropinomas, and prolactinomas resistant to dopamine agonists. Somatostatin analogs have also shown to be useful in the treatment of other endocrine diseases (congenital hyperinsulinism, Graves' orbitopathy, diabetic retinopathy, diabetic macular edema), non-endocrine tumors (breast, colon, prostate, lung, and hepatocellular), and digestive diseases (chronic refractory diarrhea, hepatorenal polycystosis, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, dumping syndrome, and intestinal fistula).