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Suicide Risks 1200% Higher After 'Gender Affirming' Surgery
Hotair ^ | 05/17/2024 | David Strom

Posted on 05/17/2024 9:11:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Gee, this isn't what we have been told.

At least not what the MSM, the medical establishment, the President of the United States, every civil rights organization, or anybody in the Establishment has told us.

You here at HotAir already knew that something like this was true, but that is because we don't shape our reporting to fit the prevailing narrative. We actually tell you the truth as best we can. 

Latest NIH study: kids have a 12x HIGHER rate of suicide after surgical transition.

This is a scandal. We were lied to. Children died as a result. People need to go to prison.


https://t.co/SxeeXJIMxf pic.twitter.com/1xIqI5x29a— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) May 16, 2024

I keep banging on about The Narrative™, and there is a reason. There is rarely a correlation between what the mainstream media puts out and what is actually true. Sure, they are perfectly willing to report facts when they don't upset their narrative, but the goal of their "reporting" is to reinforce a false view of the world that corresponds with their ideological priors. 

This is how we get years of propaganda that insists that parents face a choice between a live daughter or a dead son. Never, ever have the statistics even hinted that this is the case. There was zero evidence of this assertion, yet it was made every day, several times a day, to "prove" that children needed to be sterilized and mutilated in the most horrific ways in order to preserve mental health. 

The Cass Review and other systematic studies done in recent years have conclusively shown that the evidence base for alphabet ideology doesn't exist, and now studies are being done on the victims who have been put through these medieval tortures.

The evidence says the opposite of what we were told is true. In fact, things are much much worse than people imagine. 

A new study just published looked into the evidence and, guess what? It turns out that suicide attempts skyrocket after surgery. Not just a bit. Not even a lot – a doubling would be a lot, right? 

No, people who get "life-saving" surgeries are 12.12 times more likely to attempt suicide than those who haven't. 

Introduction With the growing acceptance of transgender individuals, the number of gender affirmation surgeries has increased. Transgender individuals face elevated depression rates, leading to an increase in suicide ideation and attempts. This study evaluates the risk of suicide or self-harm associated with gender affirmation procedures. Methods This retrospective study utilized de-identified patient data from the TriNetX (TriNetX, LLC, Cambridge, MA) database, involving 56 United States healthcare organizations and over 90 million patients. The study involved four cohorts: cohort A, adults aged 18-60 who had gender-affirming surgery and an emergency visit (N = 1,501); cohort B, control group of adults with emergency visits but no gender-affirming surgery (N = 15,608,363); and cohort C, control group of adults with emergency visits, tubal ligation or vasectomy, but no gender-affirming surgery (N = 142,093).

Propensity matching was applied to cohorts A and C. Data from February 4, 2003, to February 4, 2023, were analyzed to examine suicide attempts, death, self-harm, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within five years of the index event. A secondary analysis involving a control group with pharyngitis, referred to as cohort D, was conducted to validate the results from cohort C. Results Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001).

Compared to the tubal ligation/vasectomy controls, the risk was 5.03-fold higher before propensity matching and remained significant at 4.71-fold after matching (3.50% vs. 0.74%, RR 95% CI 2.46-9.024, p < 0.0001) for the gender affirmation patients with similar results with the pharyngitis controls. Conclusion Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.

What this study shows is that suicidality remains high after surgery, which confirms other studies which show that suicide attempts and suicidality don't change at any stage in the transition process. People going into the process are more suicidal than those who don't have gender dysphoria, and those who come out the other end of the process remain suicidal. 

A Dutch study has shown that suicide risks remain at about the same rate regardless of where they are in the transition process. That is because they are mentally ill, not because they are "transgender" and need affirming care. 

An American case study of a suicidal child found that a patient, mirroring many others, was actually dissatisfied with her weight and translated this into gender dysphoria. The "gender-affirming" treatment made her more sad and depressed, indicating again that misdiagnosis based on prior ideological commitments is harming children. This happens all the time. 

Social transition, puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery are not treatments for severe mental illness. They are butchery – no better and arguably worse than lobotomies. 

The suicide risk has nothing to do with gender dysphoria. That is what the evidence says. It is higher than average before the treatments and higher than average after. 

Is this what you have been told by the mainstream media? Obviously not. Yet, nearly every school in America is busy pushing this toxic ideology on students, and they get away with it because The Narrative™ tells people it is right. 



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigprofit; gender; genderaffirmingcare; malpractice; medicalcomplex; medicalmalfeasance; medicalmalpractice; mutilation; suicide; surgery; trans; transgender; transpsycho; transstats
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1 posted on 05/17/2024 9:11:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine that..../s


2 posted on 05/17/2024 9:13:21 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)
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To: SeekAndFind

1200%. Is that statistically significant?


3 posted on 05/17/2024 9:22:52 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Imagine that..../s

Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

4 posted on 05/17/2024 9:29:46 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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RE: 1200%. Is that statistically significant?

Let’s just say that in a Gallup poll, If Politician A were up against Politician B by 1200% in the polls, I’d bet my entire 401K that Politician A wins.


5 posted on 05/17/2024 9:31:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"Conclusion: Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support."

Of course the medical community would push for the reverse of what they really should be doing, which is dealing with the psychiatric issues long before even considering any surgical solutions.

I wonder if the percentage of suicide is even worse for those whose parents (usually the mother) had them altered well before reaching 18 years old.

6 posted on 05/17/2024 9:35:03 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Using that statistic....I’d stand out of the way, and just let the numbers cure the ‘problem’. If you also asked if attacks upon relatives/doctors are up within this group....that’s also probably a 1200-percent number.


7 posted on 05/17/2024 9:36:40 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind

sure, once they finally realize there’s no turning back from irreversible damage...


8 posted on 05/17/2024 9:40:06 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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The trans-cult claims that the reason that there are so many suicides after surgery is because the people get bullied or their families shun them.

Even before surgery, the trans-cult tells their followers to disown their families if they don’t accept their new gender. “If they really loved you they would.”

I’ve read stories about college students that were affirmed by EVERYONE - friends, family, school and even their churches; they still killed themselves.

One boy said in his note “I realize that I will never be the perfect woman.” (What female - or male - ever is!?)

It is so sad for these people, and a travesty in mental health and medicine. It WILL go the way that lobotomies went, but how many lives will be ruined before then?

There are stories though of people leaving the cult, and getting the mental health help that they REALLY need, so that gives me hope.

Obviously something so stupid as “The reason you think and feel like this is because you are really the other sex” is not going to be the solution. So several years later they STILL have the same mental problems, combined with terrible physical problems.


9 posted on 05/17/2024 9:43:41 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obviously, it’s mentally ill people who are seeking to mutilate their genitals.


10 posted on 05/17/2024 9:48:44 PM PDT by dadgum (Enough!)
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"Obviously, it’s mentally ill people who are seeking to mutilate their genitals."

I wonder if it's solely that. Jim Jones coerced a lot of seemingly nice and innocent people to drink the Kool-Aid at Jonestown.

11 posted on 05/17/2024 9:53:03 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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It’s just a number ...

... and numbers are raciss.


12 posted on 05/17/2024 10:10:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Surprise surprise.


13 posted on 05/17/2024 10:18:09 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a doc friend who is a clinical psychologist. He refuses to deal with people that want “gender affirming surgery”. He told me that almost all of these poor souls are desperately seeking attention. He also said that the suicidal rate for these people is through the roof.


14 posted on 05/17/2024 10:32:10 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s been at 46-48% success rate on suicides...wonder why the government and military promotes it?


15 posted on 05/17/2024 10:32:29 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind
I’d bet my entire 401K that Politician A wins.

Unless politician B engages in massive amounts of election fraud, like Biden did.

16 posted on 05/17/2024 11:49:59 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unhappy teens get told that submitting to sexual mutilation will make them happy and then discover they are still unhappy and irreversibly neutered.


17 posted on 05/18/2024 12:08:20 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why don’t they save taxpayers’ money (these procedures are clearly paid for by taxpayers) and kill themselves *before* the surgery?


18 posted on 05/18/2024 3:35:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m comfortable with that. Fewer freaks having, and adopting, innocent children.


19 posted on 05/18/2024 4:27:55 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

After you attack self, you kill self.


20 posted on 05/18/2024 4:27:56 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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