By Brandon Showalter, featuring Ginny Gentles, director of the Education Freedom Center at Independent Women’s Forum
WASHINGTON — A new study is challenging the oft-repeated claim among trans activists that unless children suffering from gender dysphoria are given puberty blockers and pursue a chemical gender transition, they are likely to die by suicide.
In a report released Monday by the Heritage Foundation’s Jay Greene, a senior research fellow at the Center for Education Policy, the scholar explained that contrary to the Biden administration and LGBT activists’ assertions that so-called “gender-affirming” care is necessary healthcare for trans-identifying youth and that it prevents them from killing themselves, prescribing cross-sex hormones to children and teens without their parents’ consent actually increases suicide rates.
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In response to a question from The Christian Post, Ginny Gentles, director of the Education Freedom Center at Independent Women’s Forum, shared how parents navigate the fear-inducing claim that their children are bound to “commit suicide” unless they undergo an experimental cross-sex hormonal regimen. She stressed that the claims of transgender activists lose their strength once parents start to learn more about what has been happening across the culture.
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Conversely, Greene’s statistical analysis also comes on the heels of increased conservative scrutiny of gender ideology more broadly and pediatric gender medicalization in the form of documentary films like “What is a Woman?” by the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, which was released on June 1, and Fox Nation’s upcoming Tucker Carlson Originals documentary “Transgressive: The Cult of Confusion” which is slated to be released in July.
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