The Left has used toxic empathy and outright threats to bully Americans in general — and parents in particular — into agreeing to "gender-affirming care" for children. Those children are often autistic, come from unstable homes, and are usually gender non-conforming gays or lesbians. Despite that, the Left will tell us that if we don't give them puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilate their bodies, they will harm themselves and commit suicide.
The line is always, "Do you want an alive daughter or a dead son?" They did this with Jonni Skinner's mom, even threatening to remove him from her custody if she didn't agree to his gender treatment.
Now we have another study that shows such "gender-affirming surgeries" don't improve the mental health symptoms of "trans youth" and may actually do more harm than good.
📰A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions (under age 23) did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have had a negative impact. Link ⬇️ /1 pic.twitter.com/T3tkPyqtQE
— SEGM (@segm_ebm) April 4, 2026
The highlighted portion reads (emphasis added), "Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up — rising from 9.8 percent to 60.7 percent and from 21.6 percent to 54.5 percent in masculinizing gender reassignment.
This isn't the first study to show the harms of "gender-affirming care," either. In 2024, a study showed that most "trans kids" actually outgrow the trans phase, and another showed that suicidality increased twelvefold after "gender-affirming surgery."
I needed mental health support when I identified as trans. I wasn’t helped by affirmation, and the drugs and surgery made me more unstable.
— Prisha Mosley🦎 (@PrishaMosley) April 5, 2026
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Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones have a tremendous impact on both physical and mental health.
The mantra ‘to offer gender transition early in adolescence, as early as possible to improve mental health / prevent suicide’ was never backed up by solid scientific evidence . There was ( is?) a medical ‘tribe’ that still believes on this flawed assumption. We hope solid…
— MA Reyes (@PediHospitalMD) April 4, 2026
It was all emotional manipulation.
For years trans activists screamed how you must affirm a child’s delusions or they’ll commit suicide. Now we know the opposite to be true. https://t.co/7EmYzCGApt
— Josh Howie (@joshxhowie) April 5, 2026
This is true. As this writer pointed out last week, after the Left melted down over the SCOTUS conversion therapy ruling, "gender-affirming care" often does more harm than good. Puberty blockers mean boys will never develop mature genitalia, and they'll never be able to orgasm. If they have a neo-vagina constructed, they're at risk of infection, fistulas, and smells (as the neo-vagina is often constructed out of a piece of colon). Women who are given penises often don't regain sensation and struggle with forming relationships. It's no surprise mental health issues get worse after this sort of "treatment."
The promoters of “gender-affirming care” tried to quash scientific debate on its effects through name-calling and by designating as “settled science” the claim that it improves the mental health of dysphoric kids. It’s now clear why they feared open scientific inquiry. https://t.co/SP8TkRqB7S
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) April 5, 2026
The frightening reality is this: their political agenda came first, ahead of the safety and well-being of children.
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