When Study Shows Transgender Medicine Hurts Kids, Activists And Media Allies Slant The Science

Dead patients aren’t usually considered a medical success story, but the transgender movement has never shied away from redefining reality to fit its ideology. The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that should have devastating consequences for the transgender narrative. However, trans activists and their allies continue to work towards redefining reality. spin It was a huge success.

The StudyThe blandly named “Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones,” Two subjects of 315 committed suicide. This is not good news for self-harm prevention treatment. The study also showed no improvement in males. “depression and anxiety scores” Or “scores for life satisfaction.” Young men who identify themselves as transgender do not benefit from female hormones.

Researchers claimed that testosterone treatment could lead to mental health improvements in young women. Even if the claims were true, there was data jigging. Minor changes in psychological health are not worth taking cross-sex hormones. Therapy is a better alternative. The research supports what many detransitioners have reported about the initial energizing, if not euphoric, effects that testosterone can have on their bodies.

Despite the suicides and null results for males and questionable (at the best) results for female subjects, researchers reported their findings like positive results that support giving wrong-sex hormones to children. The corporate media loved this spin. NBC’s Reporting The story emphasized the positive effects of adolescent transformation, and did not mention the suicides or the lack of improvement in male participants. ABC’s write-up didn’t even bother with that minimal honesty and ignored the bad outcomes entirely.

This study will be used as scientific evidence to support the benefits of transitioning children even though it does not prove anything. Cross-sex hormones are not effective in preventing suicide, do not help young men with gender dysphoria and provide little mental support for young women who don’t want to be young girls anymore. The last point will receive all the attention and will be magnified beyond what the data show.

Activists who wish to transform children understand that not many people will care about the details of the study. They also know that they have largely compromised the medical-scientific establishment and are being cowed. It is rare for doctors and researchers to stand up to the trans movement or its powerful allies. And, of course, those who are engaged in the (often lucrative) practice of medically transitioning children are in too deep to back out without admitting to medical malpractice — the possibility of losing everything is a strong incentive to treat science like a PR fight.

It is easy to convince scientists that science is settled and irreversible.

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