CA study from 2021 showed, MTF do more suicide AFTER surgery
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2021 isn't super new; but I bet hardly anyone heard of this.
https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1097/JU.0000000000001971.20
MP04-20 RATES OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES BEFORE AND AFTER GENDER AFFIRMING SURGERY
RESULTS:
Overall, 869 and 357 patients were identified undergoing vaginoplasty and phalloplasty with 193 (22.2%) and 74 (20.7%) having at least one psychiatric encounter (Table 1). Although the overall proportion of those experiencing a psychiatric encounter was similar between the vaginoplasty and phalloplasty groups, suicide attempts were more common in the vaginoplasty group (4.4% vs. 1.7%, p=0.033). The rate of a psychiatric encounter occurring after surgery if an episode prior surgery occurred was 33.9% and 26.5% for the vaginoplasty and phalloplasty groups. The overall rates of suicide attempts doubled (3.3 vs 1.5%, p=0.017) after vaginoplasty (effect not observed after phalloplasty).
This brought it to my attention: https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1767308287081345428
Study finds that the attempted-suicide rate among transgender women who received a vaginoplasty in California was twice as high during the period after the surgery compared with the period before the surgery.
[and much more, in easier-to-understand language]
The phalloplasty suicide-attempt rate was similar to the general population, while the vaginoplasty group's rate was more than twice as high as the general population.
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PS. No doubt someone will argue causes.
BUT one thing for sure: MTF transition is not needed for "to prevent suicide". Since suicide really goes up, afterward.
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That must be the study Charlie Kirk was talking about in a recent talk at some university, I saw on YouTube.
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@raphjd oh ya, I think so!
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