Analysis of Mortality Among Transgender Individuals
Analysis of Mortality Among Transgender Individuals
British Study Reveals Alarming Risks of Suicide and Homicide
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Many of us have been struck by the rapid rise in clinical interest and reported studies on transgender persons. The main clinical indication for gender change medication and or surgery is gender dysphoria. This means that individuals are afflicted with a syndrome in which they are not happy with their natural gender from birth. While changing biological gender the opposite is associated with a modest improvement in gender dysphoria scores, one may wonder if there is a price to pay for such a substantial and and relatively permanent intervention for a psychiatric illness?
Jackson et al, recently reported on the outcomes of total of 1951 British transfeminine (male at birth) (mean [SE] age, 36.90 [0.34] years; 1801 White [92.3%]) and 1364 transmasculine (female at birth) (mean [SE] age, 29.20 [0.36] years. The normal control group was matched to 68,165 cisgender men (59 136 White [86.8%]) and 68,004 cisgender women (57 762 White [84.9%]). Compared with cisgender men, there was an increased risk of overall mortality for transfeminine (MRR, 1.34; 95%CI, 1.06-1.68). Compared with cisgender women, there was an increased risk of overall mortality for transmasculine (MRR, 1.75; 95%CI, 1.08-2.83) adults.
The most notable relative risks for those who changed genders was suicide and homicide as shown in the table. These data suggest that psychiatric and behavioral determinants arising from background gender dysphoria and the transgender process contribute to death at a relatively young age among those who have chosen to change from their original biological gender to the opposite.
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The issue is simple. We are attempting to normalize a mental illness. Period. The fact that this has now become ‘trendy’ where we are enforcing and approving these measures in children, is beyond appalling.
Dr. McC... Thank you for posting this. A sad and expected reality check for us all. I have many lesbian and gay patients in my own small practice. Most are very well adapted to life and are happy and functioning normally in society, but 100% have clinical PTSD (almost always associated with severe family dysfunction). I also have a dozen or so, trans individuals (male to female and female to male). These young folks also meet DSMV criteria for PTSD 100%. After nearly 50 years in medicine, it seems to me that there has been a relative explosion in these gender dysphoric folks and it is NOT just due to political or socio-cultural/media manipulation. Tik-Tok and Facebook are not the origins of this situation, IMO, but do exacerbate the underlying problem.
I have come to believe that there are a myriad of organic factors environmentally that must lie contributing to this shift in gender identification and expression. Some of these factors include chemical contaminants (such as atrazine, perchlorates, glyphosates, phthalates, styrene, and bisphenols), EMF, vaxxx of all kinds, GMO foods, some unknown genetic pre-dispositions that become manifest with a toxic brew of poisons of various kinds.
It is apparent to me that our Ruling Psychopathy has long recognized this issue of contamination - poisoning - of the population - and, instead of identifying and dealing with the many threats that we are facing environmentally, has chosen to politicize and capitalize on the emerging "other" among us. "They" have used illness to divide, control, and profit from the peasantry. From selling Bud Lite to demonizing "trans" people by creating school shooters (through insane psychiatric drugging and gaslighting), TPTB know full well what is going on and they are determined to ramp up the chaos in these last days of Empire.
As a father of two gay kids (one lost to PTSD), I implore everyone to be understanding, accepting, and loving toward those among us who may be disaffected and "different" and struggling to make it through this all-too-short life.
It is Easter today. Peace and Hope to all here.
PS: Excellent review of just the plastics issue: https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/most-plastic-products-contain-potentially-toxic-chemicals/