New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids. Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.

>The study, [published in the *Journal of Pediatrics*](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002234762500424X?dgcid=author)*,* examined 432 patients between the ages of 12 and 20 years old who received treatment at an unnamed Midwestern academic medical center. Patients who were set to receive gender-affirming care filled out Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) surveys prior to receiving hormone therapy (HT) treatment, then repeated the questionnaire at future visits.

>Upon examining the results, the study found that suicidality among these patients “significantly declined from pretreatment to post-treatment,” and was “consistent across sex assigned at birth, age at start of therapy, and treatment duration.”

>The study included all youth who initiated hormone treatment therapy [during the years 2017 to 2024 at the medical center in question](https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/study-in-the-journal-of-pediatrics). The average follow-up to the surveys the patients took occurred around two years after their treatment began, with some patients providing feedback up to five years after they started.

>Suicidality scores among the patients who provided responses [dropped by over 67 percent](https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/study-in-the-journal-of-pediatrics), the study discovered. What’s more, of the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, [only seven discontinued their treatment](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002234762500424X?dgcid=author), with four saying they had a “shift in gender identity” (while still identifying as gender diverse), and one stopping out of concerns over “hair loss.” Two stopped for unknown reasons.

Christian nationalists don’t care. They know that gender-affirming care saves lives of trans people, and they actively are doing the antithesis to that, because they would rather have dead kids than trans kids.

Christian nationalists in their genocidal crusade only care about making sure all trans people end up in the morgue, because Deus Vult.

Christian nationalism & The Taliban—birds of the same feather.

Who would’ve thought treating a bad thing creates good outcomes?

We’ve known this.

Republicans just want to see other people dead. They killed medical subsidies… people will die. Cuts to medicare… people will die. Ban gender affirming care they disagree with (this still allow testosterone replacement)… people will die. Cut USAID because they don’t want to feed people… people will die.

Republicans only want poor, desperate people that think they way they do, so those people are willing to work as cheap labor therefor improving the corporate bottom line. Against that… prepare to die.

Just remember, if people cite statistics about trans suicide being super high even post care, the rate is regardless dramatically lower than if they did not get care. What remains is the rate is notably higher than average in the general population due to the rampant hate and lack of acceptance they get.

Being trans does not inherently make you more prone to suicide by virtue of being trans. It is many factors coming from without and not within that affect the rate for us.

This is frightening stuff too, from a parent. I was terrified when my son was bullied in grade school, I can’t imagine what these poor kids are put through by these fucking asshole Republicans

23 more to go 🫡

So you’re telling me that all the kids that clear the extensive number of hurdles it requires to get medical gender affirming care have super low regret rates and decreased rates of suicidal thoughts?

And for some reason “centrist” liberals are suggesting that Kamala Harris (who threw trans folks under the bus with Palestinians and immigrants) lost because she was too trans friendly?

Fuck that. All candidates in 2026 and 2028 better say protect trans kids and the rest or we riot again.