It Saves Lives!

The data is there and it shows that providing healthcare to trans children saves lives, we can see it in their faces. The happiness, the smiles, the carefree expressions, they just beam it.

Gender-affirming care helps save lives, cuts depression risk in transgender and nonbinary youth, study finds
USA TODAY via Yahoo
By Claire Thornton
December 18, 2021


A new study has found a link between gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender and nonbinary youth and a decrease in depression and suicidal thoughts. It's critical new data that advocates hope will rebut legislative efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care.

The peer-reviewed study from the Trevor Project was published Tuesday in the Journal of Adolescent Health and marks the first large-scale study documenting the benefits of gender-affirming care among youth. Its findings come as a lack of research has helped fuel state laws restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors.

In the past year, more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth considered attempting suicide, according to a 2021 survey. Having one's gender identity supported and affirmed is a critical factor in youth mental health, said Amy Green, the study's lead researcher.

"This data shows access to gender-affirming hormones may be one of those areas through which we’re able to reduce those high levels of depression and suicide attempts," Green said.

Why is it then some politicians want to deny us the proper healthcare?

Ask yourself why do they want to step between us and our health providers?

Study finds benefits from hormone therapy, parental support
The study found that among 9,000 trans and nonbinary youth ages 13-24, receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy was associated with a 40% lower risk for depression and seriously considering suicide.

Youth who were not receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy but wanted to faced higher risk of depression and suicidal thoughts.

The study's findings are consistent with existing scientific evidence showing the care improves well-being and decreases suicidal ideation for transgender youth who want it, said Dr. Christine Moser, director of behavioral heath at Children's Mercy's gender pathway services clinic in Kansas City, Mo.

They use the lack of knowledge of non-trans people to drum up fear against us, why?

For votes! They don’t care the harm it does to our children, they are harvesting votes off of the lives of trans children and they know exactly what they are doing.

State ban on gender-affirming medical care cited lack of data
The new study expands on the findings of three smaller clinical studies among youth and other large-scale studies on adults. It also comes as access to gender-affirming care for youth is being fiercely contested in statehouses across the country.

In April, Arkansas' state legislature passed the nation's first bill prohibiting healthcare providers from prescribing or referring transgender minors for gender-affirming medical care.

A federal judge blocked the Arkansas law in July 2021, after a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the bill received support from 17 state attorneys general.

Please, please vote to stop this epidemic of laws.

The only way we are going to stop these legislative attacks on us is by voting in such number to overwhelm their gerrymandering, voter restrictions. They did it in Massachusetts when they defeated Question 3 to take away our rights. The people are behind us, they got our backs but we need the votes to break their stranglehold on the voters and save our lives.