Pediatrician explains new transgender suicide study: ‘Not scientific fact’
A new study is out that examines the risk of suicide among transgender teens. The results confirm a long pattern of data: Transgender teens attempt suicide more frequently than adolescents generally. Unfortunately, this data may be used to pressure parents to put their children through radical transition-affirming therapies. This would be a serious mistake. The new study assumes the unproven belief that all gender identities are equally healthy and fixed in all children and teens. This is an ideological premise touted by professional medical and psychiatric guilds, not scientific fact. The study also offers no proof that these radical therapies – puberty-blocking drugs, double mastectomies for girls, and so on – will prevent adolescents from attempting suicide. If anything, the findings of the survey reinforce the dire need for serious scientific research into the potential environmental causes of gender dysphoria and the risks – both physical and psychological – of medic