Kids on 'lifesaving' cross-sex hormones skyrocket in Oregon, but no corresponding suicide decline
The #1 excuse for pushing the sterilization and mutilation of 'gender dysphoric' kids was to prevent suicide.
As it turns out, it doesn't lower the suicide rate, at all! ๐
Anyone pushing this garbage should be put in jail!
The medical 'professionals' and drug companies are making bank at the expense of kids.
Bastards!๐ก
From the article:
As medicalized gender transitions become more difficult for minors to obtain in red andย even some blue jurisdictions, due to federal pressure, state bans andย increasing malpractice risk, some states are emerging as havens for cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
A study of nearly 900,000 adolescents ages 8-17 in Oregon, based on a database representing about 80% of insured Oregonians, found nearly 1% of them were diagnosed with gender dysphoria from 2016 to 2023, three-quarters of those girls.
About 22% of gender-confused girls and 28% of gender-confused boys, a much smaller population, went on blockers or hormones, with boys three times more likely to go on blockers (17%). The sexes were closer together on taking hormones, 19% of girls and 22% of boys, based on the Comagine Health multi-payer claims database.
The sex disparity in diagnoses is theย opposite of previous generations of gender-confused youth, affirming the theory known as rapid-onset gender dysphoria, which posits that social factors play a crucial role in adolescent gender confusion, disproportionately in girls and their friend groups. ROGD theorists have often beenย targeted for professional ruin.
Given the Beaver State's progressive dominance and OHSU's presence, "It is perhaps unsurprising that the state should have what appear to be disproportionately high rates of prescribing of gender-transition treatment to minors," Ryan wrote.
Oregon also led aย Democratic state coalition that successfully challenged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'sย declaration that healthcare providers who medically transition minors fail to meet "professionally recognized standards."
The state exerts regulatory levers in various ways to compel affirmation of gender confusion. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked one last year, ruling thatย Oregon cannot deny an adoption application by foster mother Jessica Bates because she refuses to treat "hypothetical adopted children" as the opposite sex, including medicalized transitions.
No 'obvious corresponding decline in suicide outcomes'
The Oregon rates are remarkably higher than the national rates for both sexes, as gleaned from aย Harvard study of a private insurance claims database of 5.2 million 8- to 17-year-olds from 2018 to 2022. (Puberty blockers aren't given before age 8 for gender confusion.)
Published in theย Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics 17 months ago, the study โย also flagged by Ryan at the time โ found about 1-in-1,000 minors were on cross-sex hormones, or around 140 girls on testosterone and 82 boys on estrogen per 100,000.
Gender medicine researcherย Leor Sapir at the Manhattan Institute marveled at the Oregon rates, noting gender dysphoria as defined in 2013's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was observed in about 1 in 20,000 men and 50,000 women.
Theย Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine said the hormone rate for 14-15 year olds in Oregon was about 4-5 times the national rate, a gap that narrows to 2-3 times by age 17.
The Oregon figures appear to undermine a core belief for those who support gender-affirming care, that it saves lives by reducing the risk of suicide in gender-confused youth.
Canadian economistย Yuan Zhang sharedย Oregon Health Authority data on "suicide-related visits" to emergency rooms and urgent care going back to 2019, the earliest available. The number has hovered in the low to mid 5,000s each year with the exception of the pandemic year 2020, when they dropped to around 4,500.
"At the population level, these trends do not show an obvious corresponding decline in suicide outcomes," wrote Zhang, founder of theย health policy nonprofit Evidence Bridge. "It is, from an ecological level, access to 'lifesaving' gender affirming care has no impact on suicide."
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