Posted on 09/20/2024 5:10:31 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth are more than five times more likely to screen positive for suicide risk compared to cisgender females, who tend to screen positive at higher rates than cisgender males, according to a study. Suicide risk was identified in 78% of TGD youth who were screened in the Emergency Department (ED) from November 2019 to August 2022. One out of four TGD youth had active suicidal thoughts.
"Our study found elevated suicide risk in transgender and gender diverse youth, even in patients who presented to the ED for reasons other than mental health concerns," said lead author Amanda Burnside, Ph.D.
Dr. Burnside and colleagues found that among TGD youth who presented to the ED for non-mental health reasons, one out three patients screened positive for suicide risk and one out of 50 had active suicidal thoughts.
Suicide is a leading cause of death for youth ages 10-24 years, and suicide rate in this age group increased 62% from 2007 through 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A recent nationally representative survey of U.S. high school students (the Youth Risk Behavior Survey) also found that in 2021, LGBTQ+ high school students were nearly four times as likely as their heterosexual peers to attempt suicide during the past year, with more than one in five reporting having attempted suicide.
For the study, researchers analyzed electronic medical record data from ED visits for youth ages 8-25 years who received suicide risk screening. Out of 12,112 ED visits included in the study, 565 visits were from TGD youth. While TGD youth accounted for 5% of the sample, they represented 15% of all positive suicide screens.
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Patient: “I am mentally ill. I am deeply unhappy and suicidal.”
Doctor: “Hmmmmmmmm. Would it help if we surgically mutilated your genitals?”
Patient: “I guess it’s worth a shot. Go ahead.”
Nurse: “Oh, doctor. I just got a report on that patient you saw last year. I’m afraid it’s another suicide.”
Doctor: “We did all we could. Darn that Trump.”
Then, perhaps even more confused with "gender affirming care", felt miserable and saw no path out of the deception and quagmire.
Don't know, but this was not a significant issue when I was a youth, and even as kids we knew that there were two sexes and which one we were.
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“The disproportionately high rates of suicide risk that we identified in transgender and gender diverse youth might be due to multiple reasons, such as stigma, discrimination, bullying and lack of family support,” said co-author Aron Janssen, MD, Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs at the Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Lurie Children’s and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine”.
This is what they think.its everybody’s else’s fault and these kids are victims of bullying.
How about they are mentally disturbed individuals which is why they think they can become the opposite sex to begin with.
Because they are surrounded by enablers and groomers who tell them it is prefectly normal to slice and dice your body and will feel just fine after.
That’s what happens when you encourage mental illness. Disgusting what they are feeding young kids today and parents too. We’ve seen it first hand.
The majority of people seeking an Autism diagnosis also consider themselves LGBT
Too much time doom scrolling on TikTok, watching videos by LGBT and Autism influencers.
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