The Patriot Post® · Bogus Trans Study Backs Bogus Trans Science

It never used to be a controversial thing to say: Child mutilation is wrong. Yet the Left has decided to take up the banner of “transing the kids.”

There are a plethora of things, including mental illness, that contribute to kids being susceptible to today’s LGBTQ social contagion. Some actually struggle with homosexuality, are on the autism spectrum, experience peer pressure, want to fill a void in their soul created by family dynamics or a spiritual vacuum, or a combination of the above. But all of them are being duped into a lifestyle choice that is not conducive to their flourishing.

Which, in a roundabout way, actually underscores the following study.

The Trevor Project conducted a study to see if there is a direct correlation between suicide attempts among gender-confused young people and what the study deems “anti-transgender/nonbinary” state laws.

In states that have laws against transing kids, the study found a 7%-72% increase in suicidality since 2018 among gender-confused people aged 13-24 — notably before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed. The reason for the large percentage spread is that the increase depends on the state.

The study was conducted using a difference-in-differences research design, which is a quasi-experimental method and is typically used to provide an estimate. Interestingly, the difference-in-differences research doesn’t match some longitudinal data that will be discussed later.

The study comes from a heavily biased source that actively promotes the transgender agenda. Ergo, in trying to find causation between suicide and anti-transing-the-kids laws, researchers ignore other factors that come into play.

First, researchers got their sample population from social media, which is often an echo chamber for uncouth ideas and therefore a definite factor contributing toward suicide attempts. If gender-confused youth are told enough times that they are hated and persecuted (even with little to no data to back up that claim), they’ll start to believe it.

Second, there is such a thing as suicide suggestion, which heightens the suicide figures. If people who “support” your transgender ideation also foist upon you the idea that you should be suicidal if a state stands against this social contagion, then yes, there will be an increase in suicide.

It’s not laws protecting minors that provoke suicide; it’s transgenderism itself, the indulging of delusions, and being told that threatening to commit suicide is the only way to get your way.

Transgenderism is a suicide comorbidity regardless of the laws against castrating children. There are dangerously high levels of suicide among those who identify as transgender despite what the “experts” tell the public and despite the emotional blackmail of “medical professionals” who coerce parents into granting their kids “gender-affirming care.” Giving in to these delusions only makes the suicidal thoughts and behaviors worse.

Circling back to the study’s research method, a 21-year longitudinal study conducted by The Heritage Foundation discovered these key findings:

By 2020, there are about 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 people ages 12 to 23 in states that have a policy allowing minors to access health care without parental consent than in states without such a policy. The average state suicide rate in this age group between 1999 and 2020 was 11.1, making an additional 1.6 suicides per 100,000 an increase of 14 percent in the suicide rate.

The Heritage study uses approximately the same age group and has far more data to support its findings. The authors of the study go on to note:

At a minimum, the results … demonstrate that efforts to lower legal barriers for minors to receive cross-sex medical interventions do not reduce suicide rates and likely lead to higher rates among young people in states that adopt those changes.

Then, there is this final nail in the coffin. The end of the Trevor Project study says:

Data are not publicly available because they contain information that could compromise research participant privacy. The data that support the findings of this study will be made available upon request, by contacting the corresponding author, only to accredited researchers who have received ethics approval from their institutions.

So, they aren’t releasing all the data needed for the public to assess the validity of the research. You can only receive it if you’ve been sufficiently vetted (i.e., are woke enough).

Can we even trust the data they did show?

The Trevor Project is pushing the lie that laws protecting minors are causing increased suicide. It’s similar to what activists tell parents on a smaller scale: Comply or lose your kid. It’s a disgusting and cultish manipulation that should be renounced utterly.