The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
As one of the "elders" of our community (67) I want the let researchers know how lucky I feel to be alive. Even if I had succeeded in ending my life it certainly wouldn't have been recorded that it was because of the lack of gender affirming care, though that lack would certainly have been the cause. How many others did not make it?
Thank you Erin, this is an incredibly well written article. There is absolutely no way that most mainstream media organizations would provide this much analysis into the actual scientific facts of this study.
I noticed in the study summary, the 30 kids that had already received puberty blockers and wondered how that would affect the study. Your clear analysis elucidates that the impact of suicide prevention was probably larger than in the study due to, as you note, that they likely had already received benefits of gender affirming care on their mental wellbeing.
Should we need studies like this? Absolutely not. But, they do help counter the horrific narrative that is circulating in the lie filled webs of internet propaganda machines. It's a no brainer that when you accept kids for who they are and who they tell you they are, they have better mental health.
Ughh the paper is behind a paywall. This is the kind of study that should be open access so that you can rub it in people’s faces. Especially those who authored the hhs report and RFK jr
I've seen a few studies over the years that come to the same conclusions. There are so many different factors that go into the decision of detransitioning such as family and social pressures. But even with that being considered, the detransition rate is still lower than the dissastifaction rate of Lasik.
THANK YOU for providing this valuable, accurate information. We're up against SO much deliberate misinformation that I am doubly appreciative of any chance we have to set the record straight. And you're the only one I am aware of (other than legal organizations working on behalf of transgender people) who reports trans issues ACCURATELY.
Of course this is good news that we already knew to be the case, but does it really matter when they have just used the passport ban, and it having been green-lit by the supreme court , to essentially begin the process of defining trans people out of existence and eventually making it illegal to access federal benefits or even to exist in society? Granted, that’s not fully where we are today. But it’s where they want to go, and the passport ban has given them a huge jump start.
While past studies have proven and shown that gender affirming care works and that this new study done someplace in the Midwest backs up that gender affirming care is positive I’m concerned with the lack of who authored this study.
Maybe if we didn’t live in an authoritarian regime where intellectualism, scientific research and freedom of choice were suppressed, the Midwest clinic would have been able to identify itself without fear of retribution.
Yes that’s true but not knowing the clinic or the authorship our opponents will say it’s fake. It only gives our opponents another way to push their BS
Sometimes news isn’t new, at least to our community.
We are all not surprised. It is what we lived.
As one of the "elders" of our community (67) I want the let researchers know how lucky I feel to be alive. Even if I had succeeded in ending my life it certainly wouldn't have been recorded that it was because of the lack of gender affirming care, though that lack would certainly have been the cause. How many others did not make it?
Thank you Erin, this is an incredibly well written article. There is absolutely no way that most mainstream media organizations would provide this much analysis into the actual scientific facts of this study.
I noticed in the study summary, the 30 kids that had already received puberty blockers and wondered how that would affect the study. Your clear analysis elucidates that the impact of suicide prevention was probably larger than in the study due to, as you note, that they likely had already received benefits of gender affirming care on their mental wellbeing.
Should we need studies like this? Absolutely not. But, they do help counter the horrific narrative that is circulating in the lie filled webs of internet propaganda machines. It's a no brainer that when you accept kids for who they are and who they tell you they are, they have better mental health.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED!!!
Well, not that shocked.
I already knew that.
Somebody please mail it to Strangio!
Ughh the paper is behind a paywall. This is the kind of study that should be open access so that you can rub it in people’s faces. Especially those who authored the hhs report and RFK jr
This is dangerous information that must be hidden to protect the people! /s
I've seen a few studies over the years that come to the same conclusions. There are so many different factors that go into the decision of detransitioning such as family and social pressures. But even with that being considered, the detransition rate is still lower than the dissastifaction rate of Lasik.
If only some of the people wielding denial of care as a political tool cared about the reality. #daniellesmith
THANK YOU for providing this valuable, accurate information. We're up against SO much deliberate misinformation that I am doubly appreciative of any chance we have to set the record straight. And you're the only one I am aware of (other than legal organizations working on behalf of transgender people) who reports trans issues ACCURATELY.
Duh. It is good to see them back what we already know with peer reviewed science.
Color me surprised.
Everyone who has a stake in this already knows this.
I’ve started posting the following quote every time I see someone question gender care:
“This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten: the people living with the condition are the experts.” Michael J. Fox
Of course this is good news that we already knew to be the case, but does it really matter when they have just used the passport ban, and it having been green-lit by the supreme court , to essentially begin the process of defining trans people out of existence and eventually making it illegal to access federal benefits or even to exist in society? Granted, that’s not fully where we are today. But it’s where they want to go, and the passport ban has given them a huge jump start.
While past studies have proven and shown that gender affirming care works and that this new study done someplace in the Midwest backs up that gender affirming care is positive I’m concerned with the lack of who authored this study.
I can't download the whole paper, but here are the authors.
Luke R. Allen PhD, Cody G. Dodd PhD, Christine N. Moser PsyD, Michelle M. Knoll MD
Thank you
Maybe if we didn’t live in an authoritarian regime where intellectualism, scientific research and freedom of choice were suppressed, the Midwest clinic would have been able to identify itself without fear of retribution.
Yes that’s true but not knowing the clinic or the authorship our opponents will say it’s fake. It only gives our opponents another way to push their BS
The paper is readily available to researchers. One way or another the "The Journal of Pediatrics" needs to be paid.
I totally agree. But we live in very strange times. Our opponents wouldn’t believe the study results no matter who did the research. Sadly. 😞