Study: Youth suicide increases with transgender treatments, lack of parental consent

You've heard the old adage, 'boys will be boys.' Nowadays that might be considered transphobic because we live in a crazy time. And while the Left seems to be encouraging and convincing kids born as one sex, that they are really the opposite sex, and they don't even have to tell their parents.

According to a recent Heritage Foundation study released Monday, state policies that allow children access to "gender-affirming care" without parental consent, have a significant rise in suicides.

The study found that 2020 saw 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 residents between the ages of 12 to 23 in blue states that allow children access to chemical castration drugs now called puberty blockers, along with other gender altering procedures without parental consent. [H/T The Daily Signal]

In other words, there is scant evidence that "gender reassignment" procedures prevent suicide, as the Left says is the case, according to Jay Greene, a Heritage research fellow in education. So don't believe the hype you might hear the Left try to pass off as fact.

Gender transition advocate and social worker Sarah Harte said, [with no data to back up her claim other than people who agree with her saying the same thing] that  “laws and systems barring gender-affirming health care will contribute to higher rates of significant mental health problems, including deaths by suicide.”

It's always risky trying to predict the future, especially when using emotions as your source for the prediction.

When Alabama passed legislation making gender-transition procedures and “treatments” illegal to perform on children, then-White House ginger press secretary Jen Psaki said that the new law would interfere with “life-saving health care.”

How did she come up with that conclusion? Did she 'follow the science'?

The Biden administration threatened states with a warning that they may be in violation of civil rights law if they put limitations on “gender affirming care,” which includes hormone treatment, puberty blockers, social affirmation, and surgery. But the Biden administration wants to put limitations on the age a person must be to buy a rifle, 21, while wanting to lower the voting age to 16.

“Every major medical association agrees that gender-affirming health care is a best practice and, potentially, lifesaving,” Psaki told the fawning press.

Of course "every major medical association" is going to agree with the administration--their economic survival depends on it.

Greene’s research found that gender transition and suicide studies have been horribly flawed and he also found a link between minors receiving chemical castration medications, or as the Left likes to call them, puberty blockers, without parental consent, and a much higher suicide rate.

The report can be read here.

“The average state suicide rate in this age group between 1999 and 2020 was 11.1, making an additional 1.6 suicides per 100,000 an increase of 14% in the suicide rate,” Greene writes.

The suicide numbers were obtained from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a non-partisan organization.

“If making it easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is protective against suicide, one should expect the frequency of youth suicide to be lower in states that have a provision allowing minors to get these drugs without parental consent,” Greene posits.

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In other words, we should see a divergence toward fewer suicides in states that allowed puberty blockers and other gender hormone treatments after they became available in the United States after 2010, but the divergence is just the opposite.

So, as I said, don't believe the hype and have yourself a happy Pride Month, soon to be Pride Year, then Pride Decade, if the Left gets its way.

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