Comment on Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report

• BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  lol so I guess you didn’t read more of the article you posted than the tl;dr section at the top of if which you copy/pasted.

  The entire premise in the article of denying any kind of gender-affirming treatment is what I was responding to. Whether or not that translates into a difference in suicide stats, negative perception of gender-affirming treatment prevents the quality of life outcomes that come along with that treatment and further drives people to suicide, but also diminished social acceptance and therefore a lower quality of life.

  In other words, suicide isn’t the only negative effect, and it’s can be a more indirect one than a single study like this can show.

  Just refer to people the way they want to be referred to and respect their wishes. Isn’t that what we all want?

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  • BananaSpike@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The entire premise in the article of denying any kind of gender-affirming treatment is what I was responding to

    What? Can you quote any part of the article that tries to deny “any kind of gender-affirming treatment”? Here is the central claim that they’re refuting:

    The central claim, made on X (formerly known as Twitter), is that there has been a large rise in suicide by current and recent patients of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) service at the Tavistock since an earlier restriction of puberty-blocking drugs that followed a High Court decision in a case (Bell v Tavistock) in December 2020. The rise is described as a “surge” in suicides and “an explosion”, indicating a substantial and, by implication, unequivocal increase. There are multiple references to children dying in future because they are unable to access puberty-blocking drugs.

    Just refer to people the way they want to be referred to and respect their wishes. Isn’t that what we all want?

    Can you quote any part of the article that conflicts with this statement?

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    • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You want me to use your own source to argue with you so you don’t have to read your own source?

      Lol nah. That’s on you.

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      • BananaSpike@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m not sure why the hostility? I’ve read the source, and you either didn’t read it or misunderstood it. Nowhere does it say what you’re claiming it says, you’re welcome to disprove that with quotes.

        For anybody else reading this, if you doubt that the above commenter misunderstood the article, you can just read it. It’s not very long.

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