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In the last year, many pseudoscientific organizations and anti-transgender activists[ed-and Conservative governments and leaders] have worked to prop up misleading claims to imply that gender-affirming care is ineffective or dangerous. These claims fly in the face of the dozens of important studies released over the last decade showing the powerful, measurable impact that gender-affirming care has on transgender youth who need it. Now, a recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics adds yet another data point to the overwhelming body of evidence supporting this care, finding that suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after patients received gender-affirming treatment.

Importantly, the study found that gender-affirming care is likely lifesaving. While the authors do not present the result as a percentage, suicidality scores fell from 0.46 to 0.15—a roughly 68 percent decline—after patients were on gender-affirming hormones for an extended period of time when compared to their baseline. The effect was the same for both feminizing and masculinizing therapy. Researchers also note that the real impact may be even larger: 30 patients had already undergone puberty suppression before starting hormones and had likely experienced some benefits. As they write, “at baseline, participants who had received pubertal suppression prior to HT (n = 30) showed lower suicidality scores (M = 0.23, SD = 0.77) compared with the overall sample (M = 0.44, SD = 0.95).” Many others began with a suicidality score of 0, possibly because the knowledge they would receive treatment was itself protective. Even with these factors, the study still shows a significant reduction in suicidality.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/s...-of-pediatrics


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