A new study from Finland clearly demonstrates the massive harm young people are experiencing when they are being pushed into things like hormone treatments and puberty blockers.

Today in the West all things trans are being shoved down our throats every day, every hour. As but one indication of the trans tsunami in action, two decades ago I had nothing on my website discussing transgenderism. Sure, I had plenty of articles on the homosexual revolution tearing apart the West. But now I have well over 300 pieces devoted to trans activism.

If I wanted, I could just write about the trans behemoth every single day and never run out of material. But other matters are also worth discussing, so I try to spread topics out a bit. But with new developments daily appearing on the trans front, let me speak to just two of them.

The first one has to do with a new study from Finland that clearly demonstrates the massive harm young people are experiencing when they are being pushed into things like hormone treatments and puberty blockers. An article penned by journalist and women’s rights advocate Jo Bartosch is worth alerting you to and quoting from. Her piece begins this way:

Some ideas are so bonkers they ought never to be put to the test. Big-cat obsessives may believe they have a mystical affinity with lions, but no sane zookeeper would indulge them by opening the enclosure. And yet, it has taken researchers in Finland to confirm what anyone with a functioning brain already knew: telling children that their bodies are wrong does not improve their mental health. It makes it worse.

A recent paper published by Acta Paediatrica examined the outcomes for 2,083 patients referred to gender clinics between 1996 and 2019, and compared them with a large and carefully selected control group. The researchers found an elevated risk of ‘psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times higher than female controls and five times higher than male controls’. This means that the girls and young women given testosterone and boys and young men given oestrogen suffered significant increases in distress after starting ‘gender-affirming’ treatment.

The patients had all been diagnosed with ‘gender dysphoria’, which meant they were already mentally unwell. But ‘gender-affirming’ treatment didn’t help them. ‘Severe psychiatric morbidity is common among gender-referred adolescents and appears to be more prevalent in those referred after the recent surge in referrals’, the study concluded. ‘Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment.’

This research should prompt some soul-searching among the professionals who pushed the claim that ‘gender-affirming care’ – including everything from hormone treatment to puberty blockers – saves lives and reduces mental suffering. And that includes the charities and lobby groups that told parents they faced a stark choice: sterilise your child with drugs or bury them.

Had a study found the reverse, you can bet trans-activist outfits like Mermaids, Stonewall and the Good Law Project would be crowing about it….

She closes her piece this way:

What the Finnish researchers have shown is hardly revelatory. It is the scientific equivalent of discovering that tiger enthusiasts are mauled when they step into the cage. But if stating the obvious is what it takes to bring this grotesque experiment to a halt, then so be it.

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