Topic 15 Links
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15) “TRANSITION YOUR CHILD WITHOUT QUESTION OR THEY WILL KILL THEMSELVES”; A COMMON MANTRA; SUICIDE STATS REVIEWED
Puberty Blockers and Suicidality in Adolescents Suffering from Gender Dysphoria
Puberty blockers do not alleviate negative thoughts in children with gender dysphoria, finds study
Factors associated with suicide attempts among Australian transgender adults (note abstract doesn’t match conclusions, they make claims barriers to care are causal they don’t substantiate, and don’t consider there are differing conclusions due to differences in categories of identities- interpretation of info very biased)
Life satisfaction and mental health among transgender students in Norway
Factors associated with suicide attempts among Australian transgender adults
Suicidal as Normal - A Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Script?
Suicide Attempts Among a Cohort of Transgender and Gender Diverse People
Mental Healthcare Utilization of Transgender Youth Before and After Affirming Treatment
Analysis of Mortality Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults in England
Suicide-Related Outcomes Following Gender-Affirming Treatment: A Review
Short-Term Effects of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy on Dysphoria and Quality of Life in Transgender Individuals: A Prospective Controlled Study (abstract sounds happier than actual data)
Effectiveness of Psychotherapy on Suicidal Risk: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies
Transgender Identity and Suicide Attempts and Mortality in Denmark
Transgender identity is associated with severe suicidal ideation among Finnish adolescents
This Could Mean Death for My Child”: Parent Perspectives On Laws Banning Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Adolescents (affirmation culture is pro-suicide narrative promotion)
National Estimates of Gender-Affirming Surgery in the US
Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Suicide Risk in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
Association of Pubertal Blockade at Tanner 2/3 With Psychosocial Benefits in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth at Hormone Readiness Assessment (not high quality study design and while MH measures were better, suicide ideation wasn’t)
Rates of Psychiatric Emergencies Before and After Gender Affirming Surgery (note suicide risk twice as high post vaginoplasty)
Title: Risk of suicide attempt with gender diversity and neurodiversity
All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study (one of the better studies- doesn’t show transition reduces suicide risk in youth)
Youth Gender-Transition Treatment Not Tied to Lower Suicide Deaths in Finland
Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery (it’s high but there is no control group making the study not strong)
Risk Factors for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Trans Youth
Gender-affirming care bans disrupt mental health of trans youth and their caregivers (professionals are very invested in promoting immediate transition or suicide risk that likely makes things worse)
State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA (strong conclusions for a low quality online survey study)
Mental Disorders and Suicidality in Transgender and Gender-Diverse People (researchers have trouble not attributing everything to “minority stress”)
Disparities in School Connectedness, Unstable Housing, Experiences of Violence, Mental Health, and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Transgender and Cisgender High School Students — Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2023 (3% of high school kids identify as trans in this study)
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy Improves Levels of Depression in Transgender Individuals Within the First Year of Treatment (went from nearly worse to normal, not huge change)
The evolution of pediatric transgender healthcare in Flanders: Trends in referrals, intakes and gender-affirming interventions over the last 15 years (high suicide rate in females)
Mortality among sexual and gender minority populations: A systematic review
Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study (this is not a good study as the control group isn’t rigorous, correlation does not = causation, but it does show very high rates of MH problems among those who have received surgeries, and higher for than those who haven’t)
-https://x.com/benryanwriter/status/1898254914532315543
Ten years of experience in counseling gender diverse youth in Flanders, Belgium. A clinical overview
-False promise
Interesting thread on suicide risk rate and teens
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy and Depressive Symptoms Among Transgender Adults (improvements in MH are small- “At baseline, 84.5% of the patients were prescribed GAHT and 15.3% had moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms. Across follow-up, the proportion of patients with a GAHT prescription ranged from 92.3% to 94.2%, and moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms ranged from 11.5% to 14.6%.”)
-aspects of this study are suspicious- use of different follow up criteria and failure to gather other kinds of data (ex, anti depressant med. perscriptions) that would give a clearer picture of MH