After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning.
I feel for the remaining members of the NIH who have been told in no uncertain terms “Find or fabricate evidence that aligns with our anti-trans stance or start looking elsewhere for employment.”
I mean… they COULD just use the 2022/2023 study that the Louisiana department of health was forced to do… Mainly , the reasoning behind it was to find incidence of under 18 surgeries… of which Louisiana found none… but had “regret” and “social re-transition” as metrics they studied.
One COULD argue that the degree of social or societal pressure could vary from state to state which could inform “regret” models.
Subsection 11.3 - Regret After Surgery:
“Individuals 18 and under constituted 1,360 (20.0%) of the cohort. Regret after gonadectomy (only eligible to individuals over 18 and after one and a half years of CSHs) was rare (0.6% in AMAB, 0.3% in AFAB). All individuals who later expressed regret started CSHs after the age of 25.”
“In a cohort of 209 youth (median age 16) post-mastectomy for GD, two later reported regret (0.95%), and none underwent reversal. In a cohort of 136 AFAB in the U.S., comparing post-mastectomy to pre- surgical patients, all 68 individuals undergoing mastectomy reported it was a good decision, and nearly all (67 of the 68) denied any regret about the procedure.”
Subsection 11.4—Retransitions in Socially Transitioned Children
“An ongoing cohort study in the U.S. enrolled socially transitioned children at ages 3 to 12, notably without a requirement for formal GD diagnosis but based on self-reported transgender or gender-diverse identity. At an average of five years since their social transition, 7.3% (23 of 317) reported they re-transitioned their gender identity. In the 23 individuals, the majority reported being cisgender (eight) or nonbinary (11). The remainder (four individuals) transitioned to cisgender, then back to transgender within the five years. Just under a third of the cohort initiated puberty suppression (29%) or hormone treatment (30.9%), with more than 95% of each group continuing to report transgender identities. This cohort will continue to be followed through adolescence and
adulthood.”
I mean this isn’t how government is supposed to work, but, here we are, with an unelected idiot handing pink slips to every government agency under the sun that doesn’t stroke his ego.
I feel for the remaining members of the NIH who have been told in no uncertain terms “Find or fabricate evidence that aligns with our anti-trans stance or start looking elsewhere for employment.”
I mean… they COULD just use the 2022/2023 study that the Louisiana department of health was forced to do… Mainly , the reasoning behind it was to find incidence of under 18 surgeries… of which Louisiana found none… but had “regret” and “social re-transition” as metrics they studied. One COULD argue that the degree of social or societal pressure could vary from state to state which could inform “regret” models.
https://ldh.la.gov/assets/docs/LegisReports/HR158_2022RS_LDHReport.pdf
Subsection 11.3 - Regret After Surgery: “Individuals 18 and under constituted 1,360 (20.0%) of the cohort. Regret after gonadectomy (only eligible to individuals over 18 and after one and a half years of CSHs) was rare (0.6% in AMAB, 0.3% in AFAB). All individuals who later expressed regret started CSHs after the age of 25.”
“In a cohort of 209 youth (median age 16) post-mastectomy for GD, two later reported regret (0.95%), and none underwent reversal. In a cohort of 136 AFAB in the U.S., comparing post-mastectomy to pre- surgical patients, all 68 individuals undergoing mastectomy reported it was a good decision, and nearly all (67 of the 68) denied any regret about the procedure.”
Subsection 11.4—Retransitions in Socially Transitioned Children “An ongoing cohort study in the U.S. enrolled socially transitioned children at ages 3 to 12, notably without a requirement for formal GD diagnosis but based on self-reported transgender or gender-diverse identity. At an average of five years since their social transition, 7.3% (23 of 317) reported they re-transitioned their gender identity. In the 23 individuals, the majority reported being cisgender (eight) or nonbinary (11). The remainder (four individuals) transitioned to cisgender, then back to transgender within the five years. Just under a third of the cohort initiated puberty suppression (29%) or hormone treatment (30.9%), with more than 95% of each group continuing to report transgender identities. This cohort will continue to be followed through adolescence and adulthood.”
That’s really not how NIH grants work
I mean this isn’t how government is supposed to work, but, here we are, with an unelected idiot handing pink slips to every government agency under the sun that doesn’t stroke his ego.
not wrong