During arguments at the US Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti on December 4, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio admitted that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries do nothing to reduce suicide among trans-identified youth.
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Citing England’s Cass Review, an exhaustive systematic review of research on pediatric gender medicine, Justice Alito observed that “there is no evidence that gender-affirmative treatments reduce suicide.”
Strangio, who was arguing against state bans on medical transitions of minors, agreed:
What I think that this is referring to is there is no evidence in some – in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. And that the reason for this is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare.
Our local medical industry uses the threat that children will die at their own hands unless medically affirmed to emotionally blackmail parents into transitioning their children and to blackmail legislators into voting against laws that would protect children. The NH Suicide Prevention Council published a letter threatening lawmakers with children’s suicide unless they voted as told.
It’s time for New Hampshire legislators to wake up, realize they’ve been had, and protect vulnerable children from being sterilized and permanently harmed by unscrupulous physicians. We also need legal reforms, such as changes to the statute of limitations, to help detransitioners hold clinics and hospitals accountable for providing experimental treatments that they falsely claim are safe, evidence-based, medically necessary, and life-saving care.
