Demented “rainbow” activists are flouncing and fluffing themselves across the land as more and more jurisdictions curtail or outright ban medical experimentation on children in the name of “gender”. Of course, the media and activists lie and call it “gender-affirming care” — a double tautology, as it neither affirms the reality of children’s gender, nor does much to care for them.
After all, what’s “caring” about grooming young children to hate their own bodies, and drugging them with powerful chemicals that will leave them sterile and stunted sexually for life? Or hacking off young girls’ breasts and young boys’ penises, leaving them scarred and mutilated?
And for what? The Big Lie underlying “gender-affirming care” is that “gender dysphoric” children will be mentally better off for it. But is that even true?
A new study proves that it is a rank lie.
The study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, examined the Department of Defense (DoD) medical records of 3,754 trans-identified adolescents and 6,603 siblings who did not identify as transgender. The findings reveal no improvement in mental health after commencing hormone interventions and an increase in prescriptions for psychotropic medication.
Using such medication as a proxy for mental health issues, then, “gender-affirming care” leaves kids even more screwed-up than ever.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one who isn’t brainwashed by lunatic “transgender” ideology.
“Among 963 [transgender/gender diverse] youth using gender-affirming pharmaceuticals, mental healthcare did not significantly change and psychotropic medications increased following gender-affirming pharmaceutical initiation; older age was associated with decreased care and prescriptions,” reads the study.
The trans-identified cohort were more likely to have a mental health diagnosis, use more mental healthcare services, and be prescribed more psychotropic medications compared to the sibling cohort.
“The most pronounced increases in mental healthcare were for adjustment, anxiety, mood, personality, psychotic disorders, and suicidal ideation/attempted suicide,” the study noted. “The most pronounced increased in psychotropic medication were in SNRIs, sleep medications, anti-psychotics and lithium.”
So, the next time trans activists are blithering that “transphobia” is “literally killing” children by driving them to suicide, point out that the reverse is true. “Gender-affirming care” is literally killing kids.
But, even faced with the clear facts of the appalling effect on children’s mental health of “gender-affirming care”, trans-deluded ideologues shuffle their mental pea-brains under the shells of brainwashed ideology and come to the exact opposite conclusion.
One of the co-authors of the study, Dr. David Klein of the David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, believes that these preexisting serious mental health issues could just “melt away” after the adolescent undergoes sex change interventions.
Speaking to the Urology Times, Klein explained that at first glance, it appears from looking at the study that transgender people are more likely to suffer from psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia, but he suggests that perhaps the anti-psychotic drugs are being prescribed as “adjuncts for severe depression or for insomnia, as opposed to a primary psychotic condition.”
Klein went on to say that rather than there being something inherent about transgender people that makes them more prone to psychotic disorders, it’s more likely that once a medical sex change is underway, their other diagnoses will “start to melt away over time.”
Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes. We have to drive the kids insane to save them.
And, boy, does Doctor Demento want to get ‘em while they’re young.
Klein was also the co-author of a paper that suggested children as young as 7 were capable of consenting to medical sex changes. The paper called the cautious psychotherapeutic approach of “watchful waiting” for children who suffer from gender dysphoria “conversion therapy.”
The Post-Millennial
Sure, because literally “converting” a child from one gender to another isn’t any kind of conversion therapy.
These people are insane.
Crippling lawsuits and deregistration are the least punishments that should await them.
