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‘The Butchers And Liars Were Murderously Wrong': New Study Finds 12-Fold Higher Suicide Risk For People Who Had Gender Surgery
2024-05-19
Glory be — someone actually did a proper scientific study, then published the results for all the world to see.
[WIRE] A study published last month shows that those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not, adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.

The study utilized patient data from 56 health care organizations in the U.S. and over 90 million patients. Four different groups of patients were looked at in the study, including 1,501 people aged 18-60 who had "gender-affirming surgery" and an emergency visit (cohort A) and 15,608,363 adults who visited the emergency room but had no "gender-affirming surgery" (cohort B). The third group (cohort C) included 142,093 "adults with emergency visits, tubal ligation or vasectomy, but no gender-affirming surgery," while a fourth group of patients with pharyngitis (cohort D) was studied "to validate the results from cohort C."

"Data from February 4, 2003, to February 4, 2023, were analyzed to examine suicide attempts, death, self-harm, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within five years of the index event," the study said, adding that its results found that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not."

The study concluded, "Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  "Experts"
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-05-19 17:50  

#7  But the advocates say if you prevent this sort of butchery you are basically forcing these confused souls to kill themselves.

"Look what you made me do!"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-05-19 15:33  

#6  In-laws family tree has been self-pruned on occasion. After initial teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing postures, general acknowledgement the tree is healther.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-19 10:55  

#5  According to Canada, gender surgery is "an adventure" for children. We may need to do dome nation building up north.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-05-19 09:36  

#4  â€œadding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.


The procedures in and of themselves, while major, are not to blame for the increased suicides. A very mis-leading conclusion by the author. It’s the unrealizable expectations of the mentally unbalanced who seek them…..as Grom more succinctly indicated.
Posted by: Warthog   2024-05-19 09:29  

#3  ^ it appears the medical, education, and Donk communities are working hard on such a study.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-19 08:28  

#2  interesting study but in this case it is essentially impossible to get a double blind study and almost impossible to get a valid randomized study where the 'with surgery' and the 'without surgery' samples both come from the same population
Posted by: Lord Garth   2024-05-19 08:22  

#1  Yea, well, it's not like they were the most stable of people even before the knife.
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-19 03:50  

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