Transgender 14-year-old can proceed with hormone treatment despite father’s objections, Canadian court rules

I'm just here to point out that it is NOT universally understood the consequences of SRS, and there is hardly any agreement on the matter. For example:

In 2016 the Obama administration asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the question of whether sex reassignment surgery would have to be covered by Medicare plans. Despite receiving a request that its coverage be mandated, it refused, on the ground that we lack evidence that it benefits patients. The study from Sweden that Dr. Paul McHugh (the university distinguished service professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) mentioned in the August 2016 memo —the Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pointed out the 19-times-greater likelihood for death by suicide, and a host of other poor outcomes:

"The study identified increased mortality and psychiatric hospitalization compared to the matched controls. The mortality was primarily due to completed suicides (19.1-fold greater than in control Swedes), but death due to neoplasm and cardiovascular disease was increased 2 to 2.5 times as well. We note, mortality from this patient population did not become apparent until after 10 years. The risk for psychiatric hospitalization was 2.8 times greater than in controls even after adjustment for prior psychiatric disease (18 percent). The risk for attempted suicide was greater in male-to-female patients regardless of the gender of the control. Further, we cannot exclude therapeutic interventions as a cause of the observed excess morbidity and mortality."

As the Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid pointed out, “mortality from this patient population did not become apparent until after 10 years.”

The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers.

Furthermore, Birmingham University’s Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility, conducted a survey of more than 100 follow-up studies of post-operative transsexuals:

"[The Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility], which conducts reviews of health care treatments for the [National Health Service], concludes that none of the studies provides conclusive evidence that gender reassignment is beneficial for patients. It found that most research was poorly designed, which skewed the results in favor of physically changing sex. There was no evaluation of whether other treatments, such as long-term counseling, might help transsexuals, or whether their gender confusion might lessen over time."

Be cautious of the media that laud studies that only track outcomes for a few years, and claim that reassignment is a success. Plenty of people in who are experts in this field are skeptical about the outcomes.

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