The New Prudes

The ones who latch on to the latest perversion or social ill and expect others to subsidise it.

Never will they brook dissent of any kind! It would be too shocking!:

The federal health minister says he is “deeply disturbed” by a series of Alberta policies that would ban gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for children under certain ages and impose a new pronoun disclosure policy for schools.

Speaking to reporters Thursday alongside Justice Minister Arif Virani, Health Minister Mark Holland promised to “talk” to his Alberta counterpart to find an “off ramp” for the policies announced by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Wednesday evening.

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“The decision that was made by Alberta places kids at risk,” Holland said. “I think it’s extremely dangerous to engage in this kind of thing, which is, I think, playing politics when you’re talking about children’s lives.”

 

Yes, now, about that:

Only a handful of studies examine the relationship between cross-sex hormone treatments and suicide risks that compare outcomes for teenagers who received such care to those who sought it but did not receive it. No study uses a causal research design, such as a randomized controlled trial, which is typically required for approving drugs. Instead, many of these studies compare minors who received interventions to those who were unable to get them and find lower rates of contemplating suicide.

There are many defects in this research. First, these studies rely upon surveys of trans-identifying adults recruited from trans support and advocacy groups, so they are not representative of all people who have experienced gender dysphoria as adolescents. In particular, these studies are less likely to include people who resolved these issues without medical intervention and people who had regret about receiving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

In addition, comparing of people who sought and received puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones with those unable to receive them doesn’t give the full picture. One of the requirements for receiving these interventions is being labeled as psychologically stable. So the fact that, suicidal ideation is higher among people who tried but could not get these drugs may be the result of their being disqualified because they were psychologically unstable when they sought them. And existing studies make no effort to control for prior mental health conditions.

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Two Dutch studies formed the foundation and the best available evidence for the practice of youth medical gender transition. We demonstrate that this work is methodologically flawed and should have never been used in medical settings as justification to scale this “innovative clinical practice.” Three methodological biases undermine the research: (1) subject selection assured that only the most successful cases were included in the results; (2) the finding that “resolution of gender dysphoria” was due to the reversal of the questionnaire employed; (3) concomitant psychotherapy made it impossible to separate the effects of this intervention from those of hormones and surgery.

Perhaps we should ask why the self-proclaimed natural governing party supports children being locked in rooms with adults who convince them that radical mutilations are the way to go.

No one finds the above bizarre?