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Rates of depression, suicidal thoughts are high among transgender teens
UPI ^ | April 10, 2020 | By HealthDay News

Posted on 04/11/2020 6:58:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Depression, suicidal thoughts and self-injury are common among U.S. transgender teens, new research shows.

The study also found that hormone therapy leads to significant improvements in gender dysphoria -- the feeling of being uncomfortable with the gender they were assigned at birth.

For the study, the researchers analyzed the medical records of 158 transgender teens treated at a pediatric endocrinology clinic between 2014 and 2019.

The patients included 107 affirmed males (female to male), 47 affirmed females (male to female), and four who considered themselves non-binary. Affirmed gender is an individual's declared gender identity.

Overall, 78.5 percent had a mental health condition, with depression the most common (66.5 percent). Suicidal thoughts were more common among affirmed males (70 percent) than among affirmed females (49 percent), the study found.

In addition, self-injuring (cutting) was more common among affirmed males (56 percent) than among affirmed females (25.5 percent).

On average, both affirmed males and affirmed females began hormone treatment between age 15 and 16. Both groups reported significantly lower gender dysphoria after starting hormonal treatment.

The study was published in a special supplemental section of the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childabuse; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; perverts
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1 posted on 04/11/2020 6:58:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perversion is depressing? Shocker.


2 posted on 04/11/2020 7:03:01 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Of course they are, because they aren’t being diagnosed or treated for their underlying problems


3 posted on 04/11/2020 7:03:47 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

15 and 16 year old kids being given this kind of .....

I’d ask where the parents are but I suspect broken homes have a lot to do with this and the remaining “parent” wants to be the Facebook and local cause celebrity with the hip/unique transgender teen.

Coming out... it’s just not enough to be unique.


4 posted on 04/11/2020 7:04:08 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Depression and suicidal thoughts high among mentally ill teens.

/fixed


5 posted on 04/11/2020 7:04:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Overall, 78.5 percent had a mental health condition, with depression the most common (66.5 percent).

Gee, ya think?

6 posted on 04/11/2020 7:05:08 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Overall, 78.5 percent had a mental health condition.

"That's why we have to catch them when they are young and transition them before they have the maturity to understand what is happening to their bodies. It's just the bigotry of others that brings them depression. We need to call them by their chosen pronouns and, if you don't, you should be fined or jailed." < / liblogic >

7 posted on 04/11/2020 7:05:45 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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Of course it is....they're damaged beyond repair to begin with and then they add hormones and/or surgery to the mix and viola!... they want to jump off a bridge.

It's what often comes of being brought up by "progressive" parents and having "progressive" teachers.

8 posted on 04/11/2020 7:07:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The mental illness led them to think they could be happier with fake sexual apparatus of the other sex.


9 posted on 04/11/2020 7:09:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media deliberately and intentionally chooses to lie, with full awareness and knowledge.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Depression & suicidal thoughts are high among mentally ill?

Gee, who would have guessed that?

When I was a kid many of us wanted to be fireman or cops while the smarter ones wanted to be doctors or lawyers. With today’s democrat led culture, kids want to be perverts, drug addicts, agitators and snowflakes.


10 posted on 04/11/2020 7:11:56 AM PDT by redfreedom
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Crazy people kill themselves.

Yes Captain O, that is true.


11 posted on 04/11/2020 7:12:09 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

@oldeconomybuyer why are you posting this crap on this website?

In fact, why do you constantly post crap like this on FR?


12 posted on 04/11/2020 7:12:22 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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They obviously are mentally unstable...disturbed. What do you expect? For them to be “happy” they must move beyond their mental illness...not be supported by society in their mental illness. This “study” gets today’s NSS (No Sh** Sherlock) Award. Later today Captain Obvious will be presenting it to the authors.


13 posted on 04/11/2020 7:13:51 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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Overall, ̶7̶8̶.̶5̶ !00% percent had a mental health condition.
14 posted on 04/11/2020 7:17:08 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

well stop telling a boy he is a girl etc then.
Stop raising boys to be little girls.


15 posted on 04/11/2020 7:17:16 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other news, water wet.


16 posted on 04/11/2020 7:17:38 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Gay State Conservative

Of course it is....they’re damaged beyond repair to begin with and then they add hormones and/or surgery to the mix and viola!... they want to jump off a bridge.


Yup. It’s tragic. Those in the medical community who are enabling this charade should be tried as criminals.


17 posted on 04/11/2020 7:21:59 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Probably self hatred and depression push teens toward the latest Transgender fads.


18 posted on 04/11/2020 7:23:22 AM PDT by HangnJudge (China Lied, People died, Never Forget, this Decade's 9-11)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was a mental struggle for me too as a teenager. I had to fight to keep from getting an erection every time I saw/talked to a pretty girl.

The struggle was real folks but I suppose it “affirmed” my maleness.


19 posted on 04/11/2020 7:23:33 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjo picker on my entire block)
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this deserves another $100,000,000 worth of studies..


20 posted on 04/11/2020 7:24:14 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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