>“From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws (that is, laws that restrict the rights of transgender and non-binary people) were enacted in the USA across 19 different state governments,” the study reports. These laws primarily targeted gender-affirming care, bathroom access, and school policies.
>The study adds to a growing body of research showing that gender-affirming care saves lives, while bans on such care, along with forced outing policies in schools and bathroom restrictions, have significant negative impacts on TGNB youth in affected states.
Republicans would rather have dead kids than trans kids. That is a fact that’s not disputable. Everyone’s been telling Republicans that their Christian nationalist dogmatism and hate towards trans kids would lead to greater suicide rates, and here we are now, with trans kids committing suicide.
This is their doing, and they delight in it.
Simsmommy1 on
I feel like this is kinda like….obviously?
jayfeather31 on
…we needed a study?
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bbbinson123 on
Duh
Sioladoira on
But they don’t want that. They want those kids dead.
Arkvoodle42 on
well, DUH.
boston_homo on
Going after trans kids for personal gain is just vile. Even worse is pretending it’s for the benefit of the abused. This batch of Republican politicians are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Anxious-Arm-9609 on
**What transphobic parents think is going to happen when anti-trans laws pass:** their kid will stop “questioning” their gender identity and suddenly become a normal gender-adhering god-fearing good Christian kid and the parents will no longer have to face the horrifying prospect of using different pronouns for someone they supposedly love and reflecting on their own strict interpretation of gender appropriateness
**What will actually happen when anti trans laws pass:** their kid will try to kill themself.
**The parents, voting R down the ballot:** “That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
_byetony_ on
Something that didnt need a study edition 3846364829275733929
ShadowStarX on
“groundbreaking”
I hope that’s sarcasm, because this seems obvious, not surprising
AlbinoAxie on
What percent of suicide are trans kids?
zSeia on
I hope “groundbreaking” is sarcasm. We’ve been saying this for what, a couple decades?
Prestigious-Car-4877 on
How about stopping all the lgbtq persecution laws and maybe support sexual education and access to birth control and women’s autonomy over their own bodies while you’re at it?
yParticle on
Everything is projection with these people. They’re a little uncomfortable with their own sexuality so they condemn an entire class of people who they feel personify that. Can we get an adult in the room?
Gender-affirming care for minors is not a black and white issue. In the US, we have many laws that protect minors from making irreversible life-changing decisions at a time in their life when they’re not emotionally and mentally equipped to make such decisions. And the laws that are being called “anti-trans” laws fall under that category.
The science of human physiology is quite clear, biological males have more muscle and bone mass and greater heart and lung capacity. Biological males have a significant advantage in physical competition against biological females.
Is this “anti-trans” or pro-female?
AlexRyang on
*pretends to be shocked*
Poop___scoop on
teen suicide is the point
tgjer on
No shit.
The cruelty is the point. The Christian Nationalist movement has made demonization of trans people and promises of our eradication part of their path into power, and god help us it is working. Their goal is a future without trans people in it.
frozzbot27 on
More like a ‘NO FUCKING SHIT’ study, geeesh…
SillyGoatGruff on
“Want to reduce teen suicide?”
“No, not really”
-republicans
BeastModeEnabled on
J.D. Vance Responded “We’ll continue to fight for fats to stay the way god made them. And as you know Democrats want to make your fats transsexual.”
hidelyhokie on
The party of intrinsic value of human life so no abortions and no euthanasia doesn’t give a fuck if teenagers kill themselves. It’s what they get for being too woke or something I’m sure.
Future_Outcome on
That “groundbreaking study” ought to also acknowledge that those pushing anti-trans laws, don’t give a damn about these particular suicides.
They don’t want them to exist in the first place.
VOTE. BLUE.
InsideAside885 on
That’s what conservatives want to see happen. The fact these laws will lead to more suicides of trans people is a feature, not a bug. Conservatives want these people to kill themselves.
OkSherbert7760 on
Want to not drown? Don’t suck liquid into your lungs
Plus3d6 on
“Studies have a librul bias and I actually don’t want to stop the suicide of those people anyway.”
StriderHaryu on
Oh, no, honey, you don’t understand- they’re the ‘Pro-Life’ party the way Kim Jong-Un leads the ‘Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’
friedeggbrain on
These people will laugh and joke about trans suicide rates. They are beyond reason and empathy. The only solution is to strip them of their power
AnalysisParalysis85 on
I rather doubt that this is the biggest issue in teen suicides
Sunflier on
Anti-trans laws causing more suicides in trans people? That’s a feature, not a bug.
eightdx on
Basic human empathy would have made such a study moot because it isn’t difficult to understand that *not fucking over an already fucked over community of people is probably good, and protecting them would be even better.*
They’re human beings. You can’t legislate them out of existence, and passing laws that point towards trying to do that are, uhh, not going to help.
Coldbrewed_Hatred on
Or stop pushing trans ideology. Trans kids are drastically higher risk for suicide. Stop confusing impressionable minds
WeloveSam2014 on
So many pathetic little bitches afraid of gay and trans people because they are closet gay and trans people themselves 🤷🏿♀️🌈.
Federal-Status9351 on
I don’t disagree with your initial anti-trans laws argument, but given the LGBTQ+ community is a small percentage of the teenage population, I personally feel that the uptick in teen suicides has much more to do with broader issues: bullying, social media and its negative impact on the human brain, negative impact of technology overstimulation.
ModsOverLord on
Stop teens from using social media would greatly reduce teen suicide but we’ll just say it’s bc “anti-trans” bills, cool
ElysiumFallen on
“Groundbreaking” for people who have less than 1 braincells. Protect trans kids if you want to protect kids period.
throwaway-sux on
Well the majority of teens are not trans, so this wouldn’t make a difference to the majority of teen suicides 🤷♂️
Igmuhota on
Groundbreaking. Jesus Christ.
This is precisely why I left public sector clinical work in schools for private practice after many years of slamming my head against the wall.
Every time I do trainings for clinicians it’s like some mystery as to how we help these kids.
How about… intervene? Somehow? At all?
markroth69 on
Republican Counterpoint: We will reduce teen suicide by redefining it as Violence by the Gays!
>Data are not publicly available because they contain information that could compromise research participant privacy. The data that support the findings of this study will be made available upon request, by contacting the corresponding author, only to accredited researchers who have received ethics approval from their institutions.
Studies that restrict data this tightly are generally of poor quality and should be taken with a high degree of scepticism.
Moreover, the researchers declined to pre-register their study, making their results fairly worthless.
haltline on
Want people to stop killing themselves? Stop torturing them.
*”Here endeth todays lesson for the extremely stupid”*
Lukaler62 on
Isn’t it wild that we think laws can fix deep emotional struggles? What if we just opened more ice cream shops instead?
Female_corrector on
Republican monsters
dhaari on
Put them in insane asylums if they don’t know whether they are a man, a woman, a unicorn or a bathtub plug.
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>[***The research***](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5.epdf?sharing_token=GkwWCVfLeKQnMy2iNM9J79RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PNveFlXHsicuqelg3jvg1WP9yFzB2FHBDr1pan79yIZb0fLtgGsBxAdoMj1Je2Rx1-R1ACJ74nlrDzywRzMgLgyoZJrxIZAwfFPY0ZkRtsYnO00X9VHBC8fVzgWoSJGABwdBFIO2xGGzSHS3gNfiMB6Q8gYDFooIOlIVq9JOKeEBdDxCLzhW0jX58SHVxxNPj-F3x5xJwkHY8znZuJGbNc3FwGRc-tsXsjYEgruF-g-RpE10rk9kydjw3k1xZv43rbeA_Dm725WeP0X_vI8pX_uHi4fpJ3ALO7xeLf060jFYR7U05DP2p0bN5FoyZaVJkiF1U3Uux0jCBXmYuclL3nMKB8HocT23mxZ6Qw4cHjog%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.npr.org&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)***, conducted over four years, found that states enacting anti-trans laws saw suicide attempt rates increase by up to 72% among TGNB youth aged 13 to 17. The study analyzed data from over 61,000 TGNB individuals across all 50 states, providing the most comprehensive evidence to date of the impact of these laws.***
>“From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws (that is, laws that restrict the rights of transgender and non-binary people) were enacted in the USA across 19 different state governments,” the study reports. These laws primarily targeted gender-affirming care, bathroom access, and school policies.
>*Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, emphasized the real-world impact of these policies in* [*a press releas*](https://substack.com/redirect/ba47dd44-9b00-4a40-b58d-96c05be76ec9?j=eyJ1IjoiMjhqbmkxIn0.JOymnGf2Ghvz-wXtOacQZHrzx-oFKj-nUaWRvPmmQgw)*e: “It is without question that anti-transgender policies, and the dangerous rhetoric surrounding them, take a measurable toll on the health and safety of transgender and nonbinary young people all across the country.”*
>The study adds to a growing body of research showing that gender-affirming care saves lives, while bans on such care, along with forced outing policies in schools and bathroom restrictions, have significant negative impacts on TGNB youth in affected states.
Republicans would rather have dead kids than trans kids. That is a fact that’s not disputable. Everyone’s been telling Republicans that their Christian nationalist dogmatism and hate towards trans kids would lead to greater suicide rates, and here we are now, with trans kids committing suicide.
This is their doing, and they delight in it.
I feel like this is kinda like….obviously?
…we needed a study?
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Duh
But they don’t want that. They want those kids dead.
well, DUH.
Going after trans kids for personal gain is just vile. Even worse is pretending it’s for the benefit of the abused. This batch of Republican politicians are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
**What transphobic parents think is going to happen when anti-trans laws pass:** their kid will stop “questioning” their gender identity and suddenly become a normal gender-adhering god-fearing good Christian kid and the parents will no longer have to face the horrifying prospect of using different pronouns for someone they supposedly love and reflecting on their own strict interpretation of gender appropriateness
**What will actually happen when anti trans laws pass:** their kid will try to kill themself.
**The parents, voting R down the ballot:** “That’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
Something that didnt need a study edition 3846364829275733929
“groundbreaking”
I hope that’s sarcasm, because this seems obvious, not surprising
What percent of suicide are trans kids?
I hope “groundbreaking” is sarcasm. We’ve been saying this for what, a couple decades?
How about stopping all the lgbtq persecution laws and maybe support sexual education and access to birth control and women’s autonomy over their own bodies while you’re at it?
Everything is projection with these people. They’re a little uncomfortable with their own sexuality so they condemn an entire class of people who they feel personify that. Can we get an adult in the room?
>Since 2018, [19 states have enacted a total of 48 laws](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/politics/states-banned-medical-transitioning-for-transgender-youth-dg/index.html) restricting transgender rights, ranging from bans on gender-affirming care (for minors)…
Gender-affirming care for minors is not a black and white issue. In the US, we have many laws that protect minors from making irreversible life-changing decisions at a time in their life when they’re not emotionally and mentally equipped to make such decisions. And the laws that are being called “anti-trans” laws fall under that category.
Should our laws protect children?
>Since 2018, [19 states have enacted a total of 48 laws](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/politics/states-banned-medical-transitioning-for-transgender-youth-dg/index.html) restricting … *participation in school sports.*
The science of human physiology is quite clear, biological males have more muscle and bone mass and greater heart and lung capacity. Biological males have a significant advantage in physical competition against biological females.
Is this “anti-trans” or pro-female?
*pretends to be shocked*
teen suicide is the point
No shit.
The cruelty is the point. The Christian Nationalist movement has made demonization of trans people and promises of our eradication part of their path into power, and god help us it is working. Their goal is a future without trans people in it.
More like a ‘NO FUCKING SHIT’ study, geeesh…
“Want to reduce teen suicide?”
“No, not really”
-republicans
J.D. Vance Responded “We’ll continue to fight for fats to stay the way god made them. And as you know Democrats want to make your fats transsexual.”
The party of intrinsic value of human life so no abortions and no euthanasia doesn’t give a fuck if teenagers kill themselves. It’s what they get for being too woke or something I’m sure.
That “groundbreaking study” ought to also acknowledge that those pushing anti-trans laws, don’t give a damn about these particular suicides.
They don’t want them to exist in the first place.
VOTE. BLUE.
That’s what conservatives want to see happen. The fact these laws will lead to more suicides of trans people is a feature, not a bug. Conservatives want these people to kill themselves.
Want to not drown? Don’t suck liquid into your lungs
“Studies have a librul bias and I actually don’t want to stop the suicide of those people anyway.”
Oh, no, honey, you don’t understand- they’re the ‘Pro-Life’ party the way Kim Jong-Un leads the ‘Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’
These people will laugh and joke about trans suicide rates. They are beyond reason and empathy. The only solution is to strip them of their power
I rather doubt that this is the biggest issue in teen suicides
Anti-trans laws causing more suicides in trans people? That’s a feature, not a bug.
Basic human empathy would have made such a study moot because it isn’t difficult to understand that *not fucking over an already fucked over community of people is probably good, and protecting them would be even better.*
They’re human beings. You can’t legislate them out of existence, and passing laws that point towards trying to do that are, uhh, not going to help.
Or stop pushing trans ideology. Trans kids are drastically higher risk for suicide. Stop confusing impressionable minds
So many pathetic little bitches afraid of gay and trans people because they are closet gay and trans people themselves 🤷🏿♀️🌈.
I don’t disagree with your initial anti-trans laws argument, but given the LGBTQ+ community is a small percentage of the teenage population, I personally feel that the uptick in teen suicides has much more to do with broader issues: bullying, social media and its negative impact on the human brain, negative impact of technology overstimulation.
Stop teens from using social media would greatly reduce teen suicide but we’ll just say it’s bc “anti-trans” bills, cool
“Groundbreaking” for people who have less than 1 braincells. Protect trans kids if you want to protect kids period.
Well the majority of teens are not trans, so this wouldn’t make a difference to the majority of teen suicides 🤷♂️
Groundbreaking. Jesus Christ.
This is precisely why I left public sector clinical work in schools for private practice after many years of slamming my head against the wall.
Every time I do trainings for clinicians it’s like some mystery as to how we help these kids.
How about… intervene? Somehow? At all?
Republican Counterpoint: We will reduce teen suicide by redefining it as Violence by the Gays!
Here is the actual article in Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
>Data are not publicly available because they contain information that could compromise research participant privacy. The data that support the findings of this study will be made available upon request, by contacting the corresponding author, only to accredited researchers who have received ethics approval from their institutions.
Studies that restrict data this tightly are generally of poor quality and should be taken with a high degree of scepticism.
Moreover, the researchers declined to pre-register their study, making their results fairly worthless.
Want people to stop killing themselves? Stop torturing them.
*”Here endeth todays lesson for the extremely stupid”*
Isn’t it wild that we think laws can fix deep emotional struggles? What if we just opened more ice cream shops instead?
Republican monsters
Put them in insane asylums if they don’t know whether they are a man, a woman, a unicorn or a bathtub plug.