THEY LIED!-----It's junk science

It's junk science - DAVID STROM

"One of the most influential studies on the value of treating gender-dysphoric patients with “gender-affirming” care has been “corrected.” 

Not retracted, quite, as the authors admit that their research and conclusions were flawed, but they don’t go as far as to assert it was bunk.

• It was, in fact, bunk. 

The Journal Public Discourse has a long and well worth reading article on why the research was terrible, and how they and others successfully pushed to get the correction. 

I encourage you to read it, although you may have to skip over some more technical criticisms regarding statistical methods.
As the critics asserted, once proper statistical methods were used the results turned out to be very different from the original claims...
The conclusion that gender-affirming care helps patients turned out to be wrong. 

Even the authors of the original study admit that now...