“You can choose between a live son or a dead daughter.”
Countless parents have heard some variation of these words — from physicians, medical associations, media outlets or online activists.
If children believe they’re born in the wrong body and can’t get sex-change treatments, the argument goes, they’re at high risk of committing suicide.
No claim has swayed more parents to let their kids get puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even surgeries.
The same claim has struck fear into the hearts of lawmakers considering restrictions on such treatments.
But as we show in a new report, the suicide threat isn’t true.
Read more at the New York Post.