A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids...

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A landmark study out of Finland suggests that medical interventions for transgender kids may not actually save their lives.

The movement backing gender-transition treatment for children is built on the claim that pediatric medical interventions are not only “medically necessary” – but truly “life saving.”

However, no researchers have ever tried to figure out whether this claim is true.

A new study arrives as medical interventions for trans young-people have emerged at the center of our national culture wars.

Until now.

A major new study out of Finland found that providing cross-sex hormones and gender-transition surgeries to adolescents and young adults didn’t appear to have any significant effect on suicide deaths.

What’s more, gender distress severe enough to send young people to a gender clinic wasn’t independently linked to a higher suicide death rate either.

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A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids

The movement backing gender-transition treatment for children is built on the claim that pediatric medical interventions are not only “medically necessary” – but truly “life saving.” However,…

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