Washington Examiner healthcare reporter Gabrielle Etzel said two new studies show “there’s no evidence” to suggest puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones contributed to a declining suicide rate among children.
Etzel said some European countries are starting to pull away from gender transition treatment for children, “particularly in Scandinavian countries” like Denmark.
“And both of those studies found that there’s — it specifically focused on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones and rate of suicide — and they found that there’s no evidence to suggest that puberty blockers or cross sex hormones contributed to a declining rate of suicidality among this population, and perhaps even increased it,” Etzel said on the Scott Jennings Show.
Commentator Scott Jennings said a landmark study from the United Kingdom said giving children hormone drugs and transgender surgeries “was a terrible idea,” and Etzel said the United States did “something similar” under Health and Human Services
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