Rules broken at Italy's gender clinic; despair over Germany's politicised treatment guideline; a call for caution in Sweden; and the UK's psychotherapy council disentangles itself from bad policy
Apologies in advance for a comment that is somewhat off topic, in relation to the subject matter of this GCN article, hopefully it has some relevance:
Examples of the endlessly regurgitated shock-horror’ announcements in our news outlets:
• “New Study Reveals Shocking Rates of Attempted Suicide Among Trans Adolescents”
• “Why have nearly half of transgender Australians attempted suicide?”
• “More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide.”
• “The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% globally.”
• “Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves.”
Despite their newsworthiness I can find no evidence of a single child or adolescent trans suicide in Australia. By way of contrast there is a wealth of information available confirming that indigenous adolescents have a suicide rate that is four times that of their non-indigenous counterparts (ref: Australian Institute of Health & Welfare).
A British study calculated the annual suicide rate for Trans children between 2010 – 2020 as 13 per 100,000 (Office of National Statistics 2021). A paper by Dixon et al in the NT. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019 calculated the (non-trans) Indigenous adolescent suicide rate as 35.6 to 57.50 per 100,000.
. . . . . Yet no headlines of indigenous suicide, no outrage and not fraction of the concern or resources that are dedicated to the “Shocking Rates of attempted Suicide” in the Trans community.
Apologies in advance for a comment that is somewhat off topic, in relation to the subject matter of this GCN article, hopefully it has some relevance:
Examples of the endlessly regurgitated shock-horror’ announcements in our news outlets:
• “New Study Reveals Shocking Rates of Attempted Suicide Among Trans Adolescents”
• “Why have nearly half of transgender Australians attempted suicide?”
• “More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide.”
• “The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% globally.”
• “Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves.”
Despite their newsworthiness I can find no evidence of a single child or adolescent trans suicide in Australia. By way of contrast there is a wealth of information available confirming that indigenous adolescents have a suicide rate that is four times that of their non-indigenous counterparts (ref: Australian Institute of Health & Welfare).
A British study calculated the annual suicide rate for Trans children between 2010 – 2020 as 13 per 100,000 (Office of National Statistics 2021). A paper by Dixon et al in the NT. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019 calculated the (non-trans) Indigenous adolescent suicide rate as 35.6 to 57.50 per 100,000.
. . . . . Yet no headlines of indigenous suicide, no outrage and not fraction of the concern or resources that are dedicated to the “Shocking Rates of attempted Suicide” in the Trans community.