Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers...
by mc32 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:06PM
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According to parent comment a significant fraction of the cohort are experiencing some form of unhappiness with their identities. If that is true, and a handful of commenters are making similar claims, then we could have seen alarming numbers of suicides amongst teenage girls, but we have not, so we'd have plenty of survivors to interview and understand better.
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Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers...
by orand on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:10PM
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https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2021/6/22/why-a...
“The proportion of mental health–related emergency department visits among adolescents aged 12–17 years increased 31 percent in 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, the report said. Visits for suspected suicide attempts among girls aged 12-17 then jumped 50 percent from February to March 2021 compared to the same period in 2019. The increase among boys the same age over the same period was just 3.7 percent.“
Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers...
by mc32 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:11PM
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More acceptance coincides with more suicides? Something doesn't add up there.
Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers...
by btilly on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:05AM
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That data can be explained by many things. For an obvious example, perhaps the mental health impacts of COVID-19 hit girls harder than boys.
Re:A backlash against gender ideology is starting in univers...
by slg on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:21PM
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It doesn't follow that the rate would need to be "alarming" previously. Imagine 1% of teenagers are trans and 5% of suicides of teenager are trans. It wouldn't matter what the suicide rate would be and it would still have an impact on the total trans rate among 40 year olds.