While I can find no evidence of a single child suicide related death in New Zealand or Australia.
When looking at the indigenous child suicide rates (unassociated with gender) in both nations there would seem a very pressing need to put the ‘Affirmative Model of Gender Care’ on the back-burner and address the real and ever present child suicide epidemic in each country
. . . .Māori youth experience suicide rates nearly twice as high as those of non-Māori: 16.3 versus 9.0 per 100,000 people in 2022–23
. . . .Indigenous children (5–17 years old) in Australia die from suicide at five times the rate of their non-Indigenous peers (10·1 per 100 000 vs 2 per 100 000 in 2013–17).
Partially good news but as always New Zealanders are confused! None of this stuff, puberty blockers, cross sex hormones should be available to confused, seemingly mentally ill young people under 18.
As for the ‘experiment ‘ with puberty blockers in Britain- that’s the stuff of Frankenstein. As Kelly J says- only the vulnerable may apply. Do these authority figures and doctors really know what they are doing in continuing the experimentation?
Thank you as always!
" that treatment decisions should be left to doctors, young people and patients. "
The doctors don't agree, the experts don't agree, as you note here. Thank you for highlighting some good comebacks to this often used argument.
As far as moral panics, the suicide myth is right up there!!
While I can find no evidence of a single child suicide related death in New Zealand or Australia.
When looking at the indigenous child suicide rates (unassociated with gender) in both nations there would seem a very pressing need to put the ‘Affirmative Model of Gender Care’ on the back-burner and address the real and ever present child suicide epidemic in each country
. . . .Māori youth experience suicide rates nearly twice as high as those of non-Māori: 16.3 versus 9.0 per 100,000 people in 2022–23
. . . .Indigenous children (5–17 years old) in Australia die from suicide at five times the rate of their non-Indigenous peers (10·1 per 100 000 vs 2 per 100 000 in 2013–17).
APOLOGIES: The first sentence in my post above should read:
While I can find no evidence of a single GENDER DYSPHORIA RELATED child suicide in New Zealand or Australia. . . . .
Partially good news but as always New Zealanders are confused! None of this stuff, puberty blockers, cross sex hormones should be available to confused, seemingly mentally ill young people under 18.
As for the ‘experiment ‘ with puberty blockers in Britain- that’s the stuff of Frankenstein. As Kelly J says- only the vulnerable may apply. Do these authority figures and doctors really know what they are doing in continuing the experimentation?