Transgender procedures and drugs are on pace to become a multi-billion dollar industry in the coming years because of the rush to "affirm" gender identity over prioritizing the identification and proper treatment of mental health disorders in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria as a preventive measure against suicide.
Woke doctors see huge profit margins and emotionally blackmail parents into consenting to barbaric "treatments" for their confused children without even assessing their mental health first. You've probably heard stories of parents who are asked, "Would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?" as if failing to "affirm" the child's gender identity inevitably leads to suicide.
Not only do leftists claim that gender transitions are "medically necessary," but, like the issue of climate change, they also claim that the science is settled. Dr. Richard “Rachel” Levine, Joe Biden’s assistant secretary for health, claims that “there is no argument” about “gender-affirming care” among pediatricians and doctors who specialize in adolescents. The message being pushed is clear: that there's medical consensus that butchering children saves lives. This myth is based largely on two studies that have since been proven to be bogus.
Last year, a group of American doctors published a paper criticizing those two studies, which claimed to have determined that patients’ mental health improved after they underwent gender transition procedures. A review of the data and the methodology determined that the conclusions of those studies were deeply flawed.
A new study out of Finland has found that medically transitioning children and young adults with gender identity disorder does not prevent suicide.
Despite the transgender industry's claims to the contrary, there has not been a comprehensive examination of all-cause and suicide mortalities among gender-confused adolescents, particularly when compared to matched controls and while accounting for psychiatric morbidity. This new Finnish study determined that the primary predictor of mortality in this demographic is identified as psychiatric morbidity, and that "medical gender reassignment does not have an impact on suicide risk."
Findings Of the 55 deaths in the study population, 20 (36%) were suicides. In bivariate analyses, all-cause mortality did not statistically significantly differ between gender-referred adolescents and controls (0.5% vs 0.3%); however, the proportion of suicides was higher in the gender-referred group (0.3% vs 0.1%). The all-cause mortality rate among gender-referred adolescents (controls) was 0.81 per 1000 person-years (0.40 per 1000 person-years), and the suicide mortality rate was 0.51 per 1000 person-years (0.12 per 1000 person-years). However, when specialist-level psychiatric treatment was controlled for, neither all-cause nor suicide mortality differed between the two groups: HR for all-cause mortality among gender-referred adolescents was 1.0 (95% CI 0.5 to 2.0) and for suicide mortality was 1.8 (95% CI 0.6 to 4.8).
"Clinical gender dysphoria does not appear to be predictive of all-cause nor suicide mortality when psychiatric treatment history is accounted for," the study found. "It is of utmost importance to identify and appropriately treat mental disorders in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria to prevent suicide."
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Meanwhile, studies have also shown that 60% to 90% of young people with gender dysphoria will grow out of it after puberty. So what's the benefit of butchering and poisoning the otherwise healthy bodies of children? The only benefit is for the medical industry and Big Pharma. Transition surgeries have huge profit margins, and the transgender surgery industry will reach $5 billion by the end of this decade. These surgeries are irreversible and have extremely high complication rates, creating lifelong customers.
This new study isn't the first one to reach this conclusion either. In 2022, a UK-based study from the nonprofit organization Sex Matters found that the alleged benefits of “gender-affirming care” are “no greater than a placebo effect.” An earlier Swedish study even found an increase in suicide and criminal behavior among gender-dysphoric people who transitioned over those who didn't.
Contrary to claims of the transgender cult, there is no medical consensus that transitioning kids is medically necessary. In fact, evidence suggests the exact opposite.
