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[deleted] t1_j54hv97 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in This is currently an anti-trans bill sitting in our house at the moment, and frankly, I don’t see enough people talking about it. by Jtagz

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asuds t1_j5eo80f wrote

Who lives with the consequences if they kill themselves? Can you not see this as the better of the two outcomes?

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[deleted] t1_j5feo35 wrote

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asuds t1_j5fvk4x wrote

Except that there is evidence that treatment helps reduce negative outcomes, so….

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[deleted] t1_j5jw37j wrote

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asuds t1_j5ld8ay wrote

No.

Yet, gender-affirming care is associated with reduced prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts for those who receive the care they need.[1]

A recent study found that transgender adults who received pubertal suppression hormone therapy as adolescents were less likely to experience suicide ideation in their lifetime.[2]

Respondents to the 2015 USTS who have had the gender affirming hormone therapy or surgical care they need had lower prevalence of past-year suicide attempts compared to those who had not received the care they needed (5.1% vs. 8.5%); this difference persists even after controlling for race, age, sex assigned at birth, binary/nonbinary gender identity, and education.[3]

[1] What We Know Project. (2018). What Does the Scholarly Research Say about the Effect of Gender Transition on Transgender Well- Being? Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.

[2] 8 Turban, J. L., King, D., Carswell, J. M., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2020). Pubertal suppression for transgender youth and risk of suicidal ideation. Pediatrics, 145(2), 68-76.

[3] 9 Herman, J. L., et al., 2019; Herman, J.L., Conron, K.J., Reisner, R., & Haas, A. (2017, November 9). Effect of gender transition-related health care utilization on suicidal thoughts and behaviors: Findings from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Paper presented by J.L. Herman at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta,

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