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Quote of the Week from The Loss of a Beloved Son: “His school counselor instructed him how to be his “true self,” and where to run when he turned 18, to “find his bliss”--a place where he could be the woman he thought he was always meant to be. At 18, he left as instructed.”
PITT POSTS THIS WEEK:
Friday, March 22: The Seeds I’ve Sown…
Thursday, March 21: Someday
Wednesday, March 20: The Loss of a Beloved Son
Tuesday, March 19: Pink Hair
Monday, March 18: Theatre of the Absurd
IN THE NEWS
Numerous studies debunks the claim that sex changes for minors reduce suicide rates
A common cry from trans activists on the need to gender transition minors is that sex changes are lifesaving. They don't mean that without the sex change drugs and surgeries kids will die as a result of gender dysphoria, they mean that if they are not permitted to undergo sex changes, they will kill themselves. This has been proven false by a new study out of Finland. It shows that cross-sex hormones and sex change surgeries do not have an impact on suicide deaths. And many other recent studies co-oborate that finding.
In addition to the above Finnish study which just came out, two other long-term follow up studies show that actual suicide rates increase after transitioning:
Sweden: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
Denmark: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2806531
This long-term Danish followup study showed that mental health diagnoses and prescription med usage did not improve post-transition: https://academic.oup.com/ejendo/article-abstract/189/3/336/7261571
This short-term US follow up (two years) illustrates the hazards of relying on self-assessments. The kids said they had fewer suicidal thoughts after beginning transition, but their rate of actual suicide attempts jumped:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297
This retrospective study on nine years of US healthcare data shows that kids showed no decrease in mental health care utilization, and were prescribed psychotropic meds more often after transition than before:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34247956/
All of the above was picked up from the comment section of the Washington Post in response to the tragic suicide a trans-identified teen-ager in Oklahoma.
WHAT WERE LISTENING TO
Heresies Ep. 13 (4k): Trans, Racist & Woke: How Psychology Went MAD
After the closure of the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Service, many people have been left wondering how such institutional medical abuse of children could possibly have happened, and be allowed to happen for so long. How could some of the extremes of gender ideology and critical race theory be adopted by professionals who are supposed to be able to discern sanity from madness?
‘How Psychology Went Mad’ -- the 12th episode in the New Culture Forum's acclaimed #NCFHeresies documentary series -- looks at the impact of ideology on psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatry.
SOCIAL MEDIA THAT CAPTURES IT
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Fully half of all adolescents who are born female but instead, “self-identify” as male will attempt suicide. The rate of attempted suicide among those born male but “self-identifying” as female was 30%. Over 40% of adolescents who “identify” as gender nonconforming that is neither male nor female attempted suicide.
Leftists have passed Laws to legally prevent people from getting the help they most desperately NEED, even if they themselves desperately WANT it! They ban the ability of individuals to receive counseling or therapy to avoid unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction. Anyone rendering assistance violates that Law. Leftists could not care less about the 42% suicide rate!
It should be noted that Sweden is one of the most “trans-friendly” cultures in the world, and has been for a very long time, making these numbers even more alarming.
“There are other studies, all ignored by the ‘gender changing’ advocates. Studies from Sweden, Denmark, and also a 2013 study showing 90% of transgenders have mental disorders consisting of depression and anxiety–known causes of suicide. These studies provide irrefutable evidence that transgenders overwhelmingly suffer from untreated mental disorders. Gender surgery is not the required treatment for depression and anxiety or other transgender mental disorders.”
“The Swedish study concludes: ‘Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior.’”
“The Dutch study results state in 270 (75%) of these 359 patients, cross-gender identification was interpreted as an epiphenomenon of other psychiatric illnesses, notably personality, mood, dissociative, and psychotic disorders. Major mood disorders, dissociative disorders, and psychotic disorders reported in 79% of transgenders.” This should be alarming.
“The 2013 study results suggest there is a need for practitioners to focus on interventions in helping transgenders with coping skills (adaption in the world) to improve mental health for transgender individuals.
“But if the professionals who treat transgenders remain unwilling to ‘come out’ about the mental disorders nothing will change in their diagnosis or treatment. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. They’ve got the insanity going on.”
Lost in all this outrage-generating, ‘politically correct’ insanity is that actual people are suffering from our collective trip down the gender-identity rabbit hole. Sex/gender is not “assigned” at birth; it is determined by the DNA of the newly created life at conception. And if every cell in a person’s body carries the XY chromosome, then that person is male, or XX chromosome always equals female, and indulging the fiction that a male can become a female or vice versa, is exceedingly cruel and harmful.
Transgenders (those suffering from the so-called ‘gender dysphoria’) have a suicide-attempt rate of more than 40% over their lifetimes (even post-surgery), as compared to less than 5% for the general population. Treating their disorder as being ‘normal’, and even worthy of celebration, is making the problem worse.
Those suffering from ‘gender dysphoria’ should be treated kindly and aided in getting the mental health treatment they need so that their minds are not constantly at war with their bodies. To do otherwise — is to value an ideology more than life.
The fact that Europe seems to be leading the way in shutting down or drawing back on trans crapola is a good sign; it means it'll eventually make its way across The Drink. Remember, Europe had to eliminate slavery first; we finally got dragged kicking and screaming toward it. It's heartening that these studies are in still-respectable medical journals; the transnazis can slow down the trans crazy train critiques, but they can't stop it. The truth always comes out. My guess is the liberal media is, at the moment, having quiet meetings about the WPATH Files and how they're going spin it to make themselves look blameless or at least minimize their culpability when they finally get around to addressing it.