‘FALSE’: New Study Challenges Claim That Laws Restricting Transgender Medicine Increase Teen Suicide

img_12437

The medical watchdog group Do No Harm published a study Thursday countering the claim that laws restricting sex-rejecting procedures, often euphemistically described as “gender-affirming care,” lead to increased suicide rates among young people with gender dysphoria.

“When we examined the widely cited claim that restricting pediatric sex-rejecting procedures will spike suicide rates, we found it rests on a mass of shoddy and dishonest research,” Ian Kingsbury, senior director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, told the Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.

Read more at the Daily Signal.

Protect Patients. Defend Medical Ethics.

Power our legal, policy, and research work to keep identity politics out of healthcare.