Introduction With the growing acceptance of transgender individuals, the number of gender affirmation surgeries has increased. Transgender individuals face elevated depression rates, leading to an increase in suicide ideation and attempts. This study evaluates the risk of suicide or self-harm associ …

Results Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not

  • GreatTitEnthusiast
    231·
    6 months ago

    The title is a bit misleading. This study isn’t evidence that gender affirmative care causes suicide. Trans people have a higher rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts than the general population. Therefore you’d expect that people who seek gender affirmative care would be at a higher risk than the general population

    If the study was comparing people who got gender affirmative care vs people who didn’t but were also trans then it would be more illustrative of the effects of gander affirmative care (although I expect the effects would be positive, not negative, as it should lessen never dysphoria in most people seeking it out)

    Nothing against the people conducting the study but I don’t think this is saying what this community wants to believe it’s saying

    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
      121·
      6 months ago

      I don’t think this is saying what this community wants to believe it’s saying

      At this point this statement should just be in the sidebar of this community

    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
      36·
      6 months ago

      The study claims propensity matching was done which would correct for that.

      Compared to the tubal ligation/vasectomy controls, the risk was 5.03-fold higher before propensity matching and remained significant at 4.71-fold after matching

    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club
      16·
      6 months ago

      The title is a bit misleading. This study isn’t evidence that gender affirmative care causes suicide.

      How is the title misleading? The title does not conclude anything.