“Gender-affirming care,” including blocking a child’s puberty, giving them cross-sex hormones, and performing surgeries on their bodies, is life-saving, according to the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the news media, Democrats, hospitals, progressive activists, and Hollywood celebrities. For decades, the most powerful people and institutions in America have said that if a child feels like they are the opposite gender, they are, and doctors should be allowed to give them drugs and surgeries so their bodies align with their true inner self.
For decades? No. For a decade, yes, but not decades plural. It’s a fad that took off 10 or 12 or so years ago. There were quacks doing it before that but it wasn’t a fad yet.
And yet the result of it all, a new report published today by Health and Human Services (HHS) confirms, is the worst medical scandal since lobotomies. Researchers have found a 12-fold higher suicide attempt risk among adults who had gender surgery, either on their chests or genitals, than among those who did not. A Swedish study that followed every “surgically reassigned patient” for up to 30 years found death from suicide ran 19 times higher.
Uh…oops.
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