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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sex Med. 2018 Feb 17;15(4):591–600. doi: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.01.017

Table 2.

The distributions of outcome measures by transgender status and by gender confirmation category

Outcome measure by gender confirmation category Transmasculine Transfeminine
Median IQRe p-valuef Median IQRe p-valuef
Transgender congruence scorea
 No treatment 30 22–36 <0.0001 30 25–46 <0.0001
 HT only 43 32–51 44 33–50
 Top surgery 50 44–56 44 39–52
 Partial bottom surgery 49 42–55 51 37–57
 Definitive bottom surgery 55 49–59 53 48–57

Body image satisfaction scoreb
 No treatment 9 9–16 <0.0001 11 6–18 0.0065
 HT only 12 7–18 15 10–20
 Top surgery 17 12–22 12 9–19
 Partial bottom surgery 15 9–18 14 10–22
 Definitive bottom surgery 16 13–21 18 13–22

CESD-10 depression scorec
 No treatment 16 13–23 0.0016 14 10–21 0.0002
 HT only 12 8–18 10 5–16
 Top surgery 8 4–13 11 6–16
 Partial bottom surgery 9 4–15 8 3–16
 Definitive bottom surgery 6 3–14 6 3–11

BAI anxiety scored
 No treatment 25 16–26 0.0006 12 7–25 0.0015
 HT only 12 7–26 9 2–17
 Top surgery 7 4–17 7 3–13
 Partial bottom surgery 9 2–17 9 3–13
 Definitive bottom surgery 5 2–13 5 1–10
a

Composite of 12 questions, possible range: 12–60; higher scores indicate greater level of comfort with gender identity.

b

Composite of 5 questions, possible range: 5–25; higher scores indicate a higher level of body image satisfaction.

c

Composite of 10 questions, possible range: 0–30; higher scores indicate higher levels of depression.

d

Composite of 21 questions, possible range: 0–63; higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety.

e

Interquartile range

f

Kruskal-Wallis test