The narrative around so-called “gender-affirming care” is rapidly disintegrating. While gender ideologues are digging firmly into the movement’s sandy foundations, others are beginning to reexamine evidence that has long been hidden in plain sight.
Benjamin Ryan, a gay health reporter with bylines in various publications, has been heavily attacked for questioning leftist doctrine on transgenderism. Professor Ryan recently breathed new life into a shattered 2021 study that made it abundantly clear that transsexual genital mutilation is a recipe for disaster.
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Gender reassignment has been touted by activists as a way to save lives. It turns out they can actually drive up suicide rates in men.
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Karin Eilber, Kai Dallas, victoria scottand Polina Leiblatt and transsexual surgeon jennifer unger They set out to assess the incidence of “psychiatric emergencies before and after gender reassignment surgery in a large population-based cohort.” The American Urological Association’s Journal of Urology published its damning findings in September 2021.
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studyResearchers examined a dataset of men and women who underwent gender reassignment in California between 2012 and 2018. The researchers also identified corresponding emergency room and inpatient psychiatric encounters (“psychiatric encounters,” including suicide attempts).
The researchers calculated the proportion of these encounters before and after sex reassignment surgery.
“Overall, 869 and 357 patients were identified as having undergone vaginoplasty and phalloplasty, and 193 (22.2%) and 74 (20.7%) had at least one psychiatric visit. ,” the study states.
“While the overall proportion of people who experienced a psychiatric visit was similar in the vaginoplasty and phalloplasty groups, suicide attempts were more common in the vaginoplasty group.”
In the context of sex reassignment surgery, vaginoplasty is a surgical procedure in which a man’s penis and testicles are chopped up and transformed into a cavernous wound.
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phalloplastyAlternatively, it is a procedure in which a woman’s vagina is cut up and remade into a pseudo-penis, often with the addition of skin peeled from the victim’s arms, legs, or flanks. In some cases, female patients may undergo hysterectomy, oophorectomy, and surgical closure of the vaginal entrance as well.
The proportion of psychiatric consultations after these procedures was 33.9% for men and 26.5% for women.
“After vaginoplasty, the overall suicide attempt rate doubled (3.3% vs. 1.5%, p=0.017) (no effect was observed after phalloplasty),” the study states.
Of the 869 cases studied, 74 men had a mental illness before surgery. 81 people subsequently experienced such an event. Thirty-eight patients experienced previous and subsequent psychotic episodes. The previous overall risk was assessed as 12.8% and the subsequent risk as 13.7%.
Nine of the male patients attempted to leave on their own before surgery. 25 people subsequently attempted suicide. Four patients attempted suicide before and after the incident.
Of the 357 women in the study, three attempted suicide before surgery and three attempted suicide after surgery.
The researchers noted that the incidence of psychiatric emergencies was “higher before and after gender reassignment surgery.” However, the suicide attempt rate in the vaginoplasty group was “more than twice that of the general population.”
benjamin ryan highlighted This study was conducted on Monday X. As of publication, his post has been viewed over 1 million times.
Blaze News reported last month that LGBT activists were slamming Ryan for drawing attention to the failure of the gender ideologue’s core claims. For example, Anthony Morrison, New York-based GLAAD’s senior communications director, accused Ryan of peddling “junk science” and hating himself.
Other activists including Taneja Pharmaceutical University Assistant Professor
Kevin Astlehave accused Gay health reporter and “transphobic” former HIV testing counselor.
Rather than shying away from the fight, Ryan apparently broke down in tears as he gave the activists too many indications that they were promoting unethical pseudoscience.
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The past few weeks have been tough for LGBT activists, pharmaceutical executives and gender-reassignment surgeons. As it turned out, virtually all of the core claims supporting their public support for genital mutilation and sterilization were debunked.
The UK’s top health official comes weeks after Finland’s leading child psychiatrist Rittakertu Kartiala told the government that the vast majority of children will grow up with delusions that their sex and gender do not match. also made a similar point.
England’s National Health Service on Tuesday banned all puberty blockers for use in minors, except in experimental trials, citing a lack of evidence supporting their effectiveness and stating that they “meet the criteria for gender nonconformity/gender dysphoria”. The conflict between their physical gender and the gender with which they identify from adolescence to adulthood emphasized the full possibility that the child may not be able to continue the experience. ”
NHS England has also revealed that puberty blockers are not as effective as advertised, and based on nine observational studies, they have found that ‘gender dysphoria, mental health and There were no statistically significant differences in body image or psychosocial functioning.” GnRHA. ”
NHS England said puberty blockers “may reduce the expected increase in lumbar spine or femoral bone density during puberty”.
A Finnish study published last month in the respected quarterly journal BMJ Mental Health concluded that “medical gender reassignment has no effect on suicide risk.”
“All-cause suicide mortality and suicide mortality rates did not differ between referred suicides and non-referred suicides by gender. [sex change surgeries] “When psychiatric treatment history was taken into account,” the researchers wrote.
The narrative of “gender-affirming care” has been destroyed not only by scientific authority and research, but also by its powerful promoters.
Leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, long regarded by activists as an authority on transgender issues, have revealed that its members were free-spirited on science and ethics.
The files show members acknowledging that minors cannot provide informed consent for surgery. that sex reassignment surgery has a variety of debilitating side effects; And all the various nightmarish procedures are selective and essentially unfounded.
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