Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health—and May Save Lives
Dylan Bestler on July 19, 2022
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Scores of bills in US states aim to block medical treatments for trans youth. But research shows that these bans could have dire consequences.
IN THE MIDST of a slew of anti-trans legislation proposed earlier this year, Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, made an impassioned plea to his state’s legislature as he tried to veto a bill that would bar trans youth from competing in girls’ sports. “I want them to live,” he wrote of the trans athletes in his state in reference to the astronomical rates of suicide attempts among the trans community. Multiple surveys have estimated that about 40 percent of trans people may attempt suicide in their lifetimes; among the general public, this figure is around 5 percent.
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