Dartmouth Health endocrinologist Francis-Lim Liberty is doubling down on the trans-or-die myth that the medical industry uses to blackmail parents into transitioning their children.
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“I’m worried there’s going to be increased completed suicides in New Hampshire,” she is quoted as saying in a Boston Globe article about the impact of state bans on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for transitioning minors.
Lim-Liberty is apparently unaware that every country that has reviewed child gender medicine has concluded that there is no sound evidence that hormonal interventions improve mental health, much less prevent suicide. These include England’s four-year study, the Cass Review, as well as systematic reviews in Finland and Sweden.
Even the ACLU admitted this to the US Supreme Court when they argued against state bans on hormonal interventions for minors last December. In response to a question by Justice Samuel Alito, ACLU Attorney Chase Strangio conceded:
…there is no evidence in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare…
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether telling parents that their children will commit suicide without puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones constitutes “unfair and deceptive practices.”
Lim-Liberty insisted that New Hampshire’s laws against pediatric sex trait modification are “not scientifically based,” and promises to help families “figure out where they can legally still obtain access to their health care,” according to the Globe article.
