Posted on 06/04/2024 10:02:14 AM PDT by george76
individuals who have undergone gender-transition surgeries face a significantly higher risk of suicide, self-harm and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to those who have not had such surgeries.
Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch conducted the study, discovering that the rates of these adverse effects were over 12 times higher in individuals who had gender-transition surgeries compared to those without any history of such procedures.
The study analyzed data from nearly 16 million adult patients in the U.S., aged 18 to 60, who visited emergency rooms between 2003 and 2023. This information was extracted from a broader database encompassing over 90 million patients across more than 55 healthcare facilities. The researchers focused on data from over 1,500 patients who had undergone gender-transition surgeries within five years before their emergency room visit and compared it to data from more than 15.6 million patients with no history of such surgeries, along with two other control groups.
The findings indicated that nearly 3.5 percent of patients who had gender-reassignment surgeries sought treatment for suicide attempts, in contrast to almost 0.3 percent of patients without such a history—a difference of 12.12 times.
Although the study did not specify the ages at which patients attempted suicide or engaged in self-harm, it clarified that minors were not included in the research.
Ramifications for minors..
Child Protection League Board Chair Julie Quist described the study’s findings as “deeply disturbing.” She highlighted the significant “implications” for the healthcare and mental health industries, as well as the education system, which predominantly endorses the “affirmation only” approach as the preferred treatment for gender dysphoria in children and teenagers.
Quist emphasized the credibility of the study – citing its extensive sample size and long duration. She expressed shock at the 12.12 times higher risk of suicide attempts among individuals who had undergone gender-transition surgeries. She recalled instances where parents were reportedly pressured into agreeing to these irreversible surgeries for their children, being asked questions like, “Do you want a daughter or a dead son?” Those lines suggest that not allowing medical transition increases the risk of the child committing suicide.
She said: “This type of language is standard. It’s beyond belief.”
Quist also noted the study’s exclusion of data on suicide attempts and self-harm among minors under 18 – calling attention to the significant implications for younger individuals. She argued that if the rate of suicide attempts was this high among adults who have transitioned, it is “counterintuitive” to assume the rate would be lower among children and teens.
She added: “Consider all the parents being told that affirmation is the only solution and that surgeries are safe and prevent suicide. It’s a manipulative tactic based on falsehoods, and the extent of this deception is astonishing. They have weaponized the concept of suicide to coerce people into making the wrong decisions.”
Overlooked concerns..
Child and Parental Rights Campaign founder, president and general counsel Vernadette Broyles criticized the assumption that minors undergoing gender transitions would delay suicidal behavior until adulthood.
“It’s illogical to think that the stresses faced by adults during their sexual transition wouldn’t be even more intense for children, who are still developing. The study’s exclusion of individuals under 18 doesn’t negate its relevance to minors. I would expect even greater effects in children because of their heightened emotional and physical vulnerability to negative impacts,” Broyles told The Epoch Times.
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A public controversy..
Dr. Patrick Lappert, a distinguished plastic and reconstructive surgeon, underscored the significance of the University of Texas study’s findings, which revealed a strikingly higher suicidality rate—over 12 times—among individuals who underwent comprehensive affirmation care, including gender-affirmation surgery.
Drawing parallels with a 2011 study by Swedish researchers published in PLoS One, Lappert highlighted the consistent pattern of heightened suicide risks associated with gender-reassignment surgery.
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“The era of concealment is over. This will soon become a widely exposed scandal,” he said.
Lappert’s remarks underscored the growing scrutiny surrounding gender-affirmation practices and the potential ramifications for both medical professionals and advocacy groups involved in promoting such treatments.
How surprising.
So much for the “do you want a live son or dead daughter?”
I hear the suicide risk for males who go soak up all that unneeded estrogen and receive these
irreversible procedures is very high, more than the female patients in their futile attempt to ‘change gender’.
I can’t explain it, but the overview seems to indicate that men place a far higher value on their sexuality than most women place on their own. Women are raised to be flexible and accommodating about many things in life.
Are you trying to tell me that putting your male parts in a blender and turning it on is not a good idea?
So I need to add the sarcasm tag?
they are not following the “science”
“science” is code for money
That would be a 1200% increase in suicide attempts? If this was a pill you could take to help you sleep, they’d take it off the market.
How can you not miss a part of you that’s been there all your life? It’s gotta be enough to make you go crazy and suicidal.
What did they expect?
Anyone who decides to change their sex, already hates themselves. They are rejecting who and what they intrinsically are. I cannot fathom hating yourself to the point of that kind of self-mutilation.
But nobody addresses that.
There are a lot of people in the “education system” that should be in prison.
Once done, it's irreversible and now the so-called "doctors" are done with you, moving on to the next target.
These individuals were never defective the way they were made and anyone who tells them that is simply unfathomably ignorant, painfully sick, or simply evil.
Logic, statistics and certainly not the traditional moral notion of “the greatest good / least harm” doesn’t work on marxists when they grasping for power, or in the middle of a destructive cultural campaign.
This is my shocked face. Too bad so many people operate on feeeeeeeeelings instead of common sense.
A useless and deceptive statistic without knowing the suicide rate of those that don’t get the so-called genital mutilation.
Surprising absolutely nobody who has two functioning brain cells to rub together…
What about the girl “friend” who texted a depressed young man to death, by goading him to commit suicide?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy
If she’s a horrible monster, what words describe the ghouls in the mutilation indu$try?
Maybe that’s where she’s made a career for herself, as a ‘closer’.
Obviously society’s fault
The angry inch-who’d be happy with that?
Read much?
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