97% of Transgender Adolescents are Satisfied with and Continue Gender Affirming Medical Care

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A study published in AMA Pediatrics of 220 adolescents aged 12 years or older throughout Canada and the US has found high rates of satisfaction, with 97% of participants continuing to access gender-affirming medical care in the roughly 3 to 5 years since beginning treatment.

Only 4% of respondents—9 in total—indicated clear regret for at least 1 treatment. Of those, 4 have continued seeking gender-affirming care.

Most participants, who were 16 years old on average, indicated that the timing of treatment had been just right or expressed that they wished it had begun at an earlier age. Between 0% and 6% reported a desire that the treatment had commenced either later or never.

Although the results suggest high levels of satisfaction and low levels of regret with gender-affirming hormones and puberty blockers, the authors underscored the need to better understand cases of dissatisfaction, considering that regret was not synonymous with stopping care.

To access the study to determine "Levels of Satisfaction and Regret With Gender-Affirming Medical Care in Adolescence" Click Here

Tn. Senator defends ban on gender affirming care, days later pissed himself while being arrested

State Sen. Ken Yager, a co-sponsor of Tennessee SB1, the law now in front of the Supreme Court, defended the ban on gender-affirming care in an opinion piece. Days later Yager pissed himself while failing a sobriety test and was arrested for DWI, hit and run, and running a stop sign, according to WVLT News 8.

Yager's opinion appearing in the Tennessean "TN law bans trans children from gender-affirming care. SCOTUS must uphold that", is filled with imagery of protesters demanding an end to "child mutilation". In the article, he purports that his bill protects children too "immature" to make decisions and that he was virtually inundated with messages from constituents complaining of the harm youth gender-affirming care causes.

An opposing opinion published days later sets the record straight that legislators could not produce a single complaint, and trans people have been here since recorded history began. 

No, Senator Yager, it's immoral people like you who drink and drive and leave the scene of an accident without rendering aid who mutilate and kill.

Gender-affirming medical care saves lives.

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