This is an apparent contradiction that adults such as myself have trouble reconciling with: that there is an apparent element of adolescent culture today that, at least in certain communities, values and valorizes trans over gay identities.
Erin Reed is thus incredulous at the suggestion in the new HHS report on pediatric gender-transition treatment:
Fact check: There are, in fact, two studies that have found that suicide deaths in gender distressed youths are rare:
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e…
The purpose of controlling for specialist psych visits was to determine if having gone to a gender clinic was *independently* associated with suicide death. It was not.
This claim of Erin Reed’s is false, as I told her repeatedly last year. The University of York SR used a method that looked at observational studies and did not downgrade is a study was not a randomized controlled study. It still found the evidence behind pediatric gender-transition treatment largely weak and unreliable.
I have told Erin again and again that her denominator is wrong in this equation but she never listens. Plus, there is no follow-up data past age 18 for these kids, so there is no way of knowing the true figure until the adult gender clinics supply their data. If memory serves the correct denominator is about 515.
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