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Here’s an article that just popped up in my feed:Appreciate the link to this Swedish study.
After a quick reading, the control group of comparison seems to be the general population.
The latest study's that show dramatic decreases in suicide rates compared to general trans suicide rates, not the general population.
Secondly this is considering those who have had actual sex reassignment surgery vs those going through a gender affirming care program which for most cases is supposedly just counseling (as I have ZERO experience of this while also acknowledging that this is an extremely small sample size).
Here's the conclusion:
Conclusions
Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.
The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
The effectiveness and side-effects of the most common treatments are not well understood
www.economist.com
Again, this issue is a difficult one from many angles.