“Gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with an 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health, where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
From lifesitenews.com and written by Calvin Freiburger Thu Sep 17, 2026 - 12:20 pm EDT: New study demolishes transgender activists’ ‘dead son or live daughter’ ultimatum - LifeSite
"(LifeSiteNews) — The pervasive left-wing narrative that gender-confused children must be “transitioned” or else they will kill themselves is not supported by the actual data, according to a new report.
LGBT activists justify socially, chemically, and/or surgically transitioning minors afflicted with gender dysphoria by arguing that incongruity between their biological sex and self-believed “gender identity” is the source of their strife, rather than merely a symptom of something deeper, and therefore the cure is bringing the two into alignment by “affirming” the latter.
The transgender lobby and its allies in medicine and education are extremely aggressive in pursuing this course of treatment, and have pressured many parents into setting aside their reservations by saying they have a choice between a “dead son or a live daughter.”
However, a new paper by Do No Harm research director Jay Greene and Center for Accountability in Medicine senior director Ian Kingsbury looks to US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) data on teen suicide rates, and finds “zero evidence that state policies [against so-called transition] led to increased suicide rates,” according to the authors.
The study examined CDC suicide data from 2018 to 2024, estimates of the number of teenage minors in each state identify as “transgender” from the UCLA Williams Institute, and state policies adopted in that time frame banning gender transitions for minors, creating a statistical model for youth suicide trends and whether they corresponded to changes in the law.
“The primary outcome we examine in this model is the natural log of annual suicide rates for ages 15–19 in each state between 2018 and 2024,” it explains. “This is the CDC-reported age group most likely to be affected by state bans on gender interventions for minors. Taking the natural log of that rate allows us to interpret the result of this model as the percentage change in these suicide rates as a result of policy changes.”
It found that enacting bans “has an effect on suicide rates for 15–19-year-olds that cannot be distinguished from zero with confidence. The estimated effect is -0.3 percent, which would mean that the policy bans reduce suicide rates by 0.3 percent, and the p value of 0.931 means that we cannot be confident that this estimated effect is actually different from zero.”
Turning to national data, which allows for a more specific age group (13-17 rather than 15-19) and monthly rather than yearly data, the researchers again found no effect. “The estimated effect rounds to 0, and the p value is 0.987, meaning that we are unable to distinguish between this estimated effect and zero,” they explain. “Changing the model to focus on how the percentage of self-identified transgender teenagers affected by state bans affects suicide rates confirms our earlier finding that there is no relationship between these policy changes and youth suicide rates.”
Writing in the New York Post, the authors argue their study is superior to those commonly cited as authoritative by transgender activists in the mainstream media, because they “generally rely on self-reported mental health surveys — a low reliability method,” and fail other basic standards, such as including and maintaining a reliable control group for comparison.
“Transgender activists will continue to use the threat of suicide as a means of bludgeoning society into accepting invasive, irreversible medical interventions for children,” Greene and Kingsbury write. “But unless they can produce evidence for a relationship between state restrictions and suicides, their tactics should be called out for what they are: A manipulative bluff.
“Evidence, not emotional appeals or baseless assertions, is essential when our kids’ health and well-being are on the line,” the authors conclude. “If we’re going to lower the suicide rate among deeply confused teens, we should at least begin with intellectual honesty and genuine compassion – not activism masquerading as medical expertise.”
A large body of evidence concurs that “affirming” gender confusion hurts more than it helps, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically-transformative, and often-irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
In 2024, National Health Service (NHS) England’s landmark Cass Review found that “gender medicine” is “built on shaky foundations” and that while such interventions require a great deal of caution, “quite the reverse happened in the field of [so-called] gender care for children,” and that “[w]hile a considerable amount of research has been published in this field, systematic evidence reviews demonstrated the poor quality of the published studies, meaning there is not a reliable evidence base upon which to make clinical decisions, or for children and their families to make informed choices.”
In April, a study of “all under-23-year-old gender-referred individuals between 1996 and 2019” in Finland (2,083 people) found that those who had gone through gender transitions had “markedly higher psychiatric morbidity [other mental health issues] than controls before and after referral, with treatment needs often persisting and even intensifying after medical interventions.”
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who suffered under transitioning before returning to their true sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion that “transitioning” is the best solution.
“Gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with an 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health, where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”'
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