Biden's misguided attempt to support trans gender children

You'll be hard pressed to find good evidence that medical conversion therapy improves outcomes, reduces suicide or depression.

'As part of a policy decision to determine whether Medicaid will fund gender transition procedures, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) published a series of scientific studies on the topic. Numerous experts authored the 46-page report, with 169 pages of scientifically relevant attachments and addenda. Here are some of the key findings it includes or alludes to:'

'1. Some studies show transgender hormone replacement and/or gender-reassignment surgery do not reduce the likelihood of suicide — and may increase it.'

' a recent Heritage Foundation study concluded that U.S. states that permit minors to undergo transgender procedures without parental consent have a 14% higher suicide rate than states that prohibit them.'

'North American studies claiming that gender transitions reduce suicide do not offer any genuine comparison. In Attachment C, Drs. Romina Brignardello-Petersen and Wojtek Wiercioch (both of McMaster University) examined 61 studies and found, of the three dealing with puberty-blockers, none compared those who took such drugs with a control group that did not. Neither did any of the 22 involving cross-sex hormone procedures, nor the 30 involving gender-reassignment surgeries.'

IF YOU JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE, NEARELY ALL CHILDREN GROW OUT OF IT.

'Every major study shows nearly all children with gender dysphoria accept their birth gender by adulthood.'

“Regarding pre-pubescent children with gender dysphoria, there have been 11 outcomes studies,” wrote Cantor. “All 11 reported the majority of children ceased to feel dysphoric by puberty.” Similarly in Attachment F, Dr. Patrick Lappert notes “the historic reality that greater than 92% of children desist in their cross-sex self-identification when treated using the ‘watchful waiting’ therapeutic strategy” — i.e., using no hormones or surgeries.'

https://washingtonstand.com/news/7-scientific-facts-about-gender-transitions-for-minors

 

So you think that we should neuter pre-pubescents via puberty blockers because that will decrease the risk of an unwanted child later?

IMO that is absolutely, preposterously, nonsensical, but I am more than happy to let the reader decide for themselves. I see no reason to bother refuting it.