(LifeSiteNews) –– A Danish study has shown that people who suffer from gender dysphoria have a 3.5 higher suicide rate and 7.7 times more suicide attempts than the general population.
The cohort study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and examined 6,657,456 Danish-born individuals over age 14 who lived in the country between 1980 and 2021.
Of those individuals, 3,759 (0.06%) were categorized as “transgender” based on “national hospital records and administrative records of legal change of gender.”
The study authors found that “transgender individuals … had significantly higher rates of suicide attempt, suicide mortality, suicide-unrelated mortality, and all-cause mortality compared with the nontransgender population.”
In addition to having a higher suicide rate (3.5 times higher) and a higher rate of suicide attempts (7.7 times higher), gender-confused individuals also had around a two times higher death rate (from all causes) compared with the average Danish population.
Study authors demand more gender-neutral bathrooms to solve problem
The study authors, when discussing the reasons for the high suicide rate among gender-confused individuals, opined that “[t]ransgender individuals may be exposed to systemic negativity regarding their trans identity in the form of bullying, discrimination, exclusion, and prejudice, which in turn may result in alienation and internalized stigma, mental health problems, and, ultimately, suicidal behavior.”
As a possible ramification, the authors suggest “direct measures, such as encouragements to seek help in situations of personal distress, and general measures have been suggested to reduce structural discrimination, such as the implementation of training and best practice guidelines among health care professionals and the wider use of gender-neutral public bathrooms and locker rooms.”
The study authors appear to be caught in a fallacious scientific paradigm when assuming so-called “gender-affirming-care” is beneficial to people and that the problem of extraordinarily high suicide rates could be mitigated by offering more measures affirming gender-confused people in their delusion, such as gender-neutral bathrooms.
The authors seemingly ignore the fact that many individuals who suffer from gender confusion have underlying psychological issues, often from being abused as a minor, as in the case of the well-known detransitioner Walt Heyer and many others. These childhood traumas are often the cause of gender dysphoria, according to clinical psychologist Dr. Joseph Nicolosi.
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Other cases, especially in teenage girls, are caused by the desire to fit in with the trend of transgenderism, as best-selling author Abigail Shrier describes.
A Swedish study, which the authors of the Danish study cite themselves, showed that gender-confused individuals who went through mutilating “sex-reassignment” surgery had a suicide rate that was up to 19 times higher than in the general population. These results show that “gender-affirming care,” especially gender surgeries, does not alleviate the suicide risk at all but rather worsens it.
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Affecting the political discussion around transgenderism
Unsurprisingly, LGBT activists attempt to spin these results to fit their agenda. In a New York Times article, journalist Azeen Ghorayshi suggested that laws passed by Republican lawmakers restricting gender surgeries, drag shows and gender-neutral bathrooms could be the cause of the high suicide rates found in gender-confused people.
“Some Republicans have argued that suicides among transgender people are rare, while some L.G.B.T.Q. advocates have declared that the new laws could lead more young transgender people to die by suicide,” Ghorayshi wrote.
The New York Times journalist is creating a false dichotomy here. The position of most conservatives is not that suicide in gender-confused people is rare, but rather that high suicide rates are a consequence of gender dysphoria, which is a psychological disorder. LGBT activists wrongly argue that “discrimination” against gender-confused individuals and withholding “gender-affirming care” from them is causing the suicides. However, as mentioned above, there is no evidence that gender surgeries and hormones reduce suicide rates in the long run. In fact, studies like the one from Sweden indicate that gender surgeries increase the suicide risk even more.
READ: Heartbreaking detransition story describes ‘trauma’ caused by gender confusion
As the report by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh about the Vanderbilt University Medical Center promoting mutilating gender surgeries has shown, the real reason for hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to promote transgender surgeries and hormone therapies is to “make a lot of money.”
A “chest reconstruction,” for instance, costs approximately $40,000 per patient, according to Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor.
“These surgeries are labor intensive, there are a lot of follow-ups, they require a lot of our time, and they make money,” Taylor said in a video uncovered by Walsh.
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