I don’t think this is saying what this community wants to believe it’s saying
At this point this statement should just be in the sidebar of this community
Comment on Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery - PubMed
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 5 months ago
The title is a bit misleading. This study isn’t evidence that gender affirmative care causes suicide. Trans people have a higher rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than the general population. Therefore you’d expect that people who seek gender affirmative care would be at a higher risk than the general population
If the study was comparing people who got gender affirmative care vs people who didn’t but were also trans then it would be more illustrative of the effects of gander affirmative care (although I expect the effects would be positive, not negative, as it should lessen never dysphoria in most people seeking it out)
Nothing against the people conducting the study but I don’t think this is saying what this community wants to believe it’s saying
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The study claims propensity matching was done which would correct for that.
Compared to the tubal ligation/vasectomy controls, the risk was 5.03-fold higher before propensity matching and remained significant at 4.71-fold after matching
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
The title is a bit misleading. This study isn’t evidence that gender affirmative care causes suicide.
How is the title misleading? The title does not conclude anything.
bunkyprewster@startrek.website 5 months ago
Another article notes “participants were at greater odds of NSSI, contemplating suicide, and attempting suicide before initiating the gender affirmation process compared to after”
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Would like to know how much is from them getting treated terribly by bigots/bully’s