cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38251967
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38251967
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
The surge is in 2021. 3 years before Labour was in power.
I suspect this is probability COVID related.
You’re right that I was wrong that it was Wes Streeting who was warned - got my dates muddled - but it was him as then leader of DoH who commissioned and then downplayed the report into the surge in suicides. It was him and his dept who tried to block various FOI requests. They knew.
Not sure how you come to the conclusion this is COVID related though.
I guess to would have to look at the suicide rates in other populations coming out of COVID.
COVID and the associated turmoil certainly did have an effect on the mental health of the country.
That is what I was trying to convey, yes.
No doubt. But the time correlation (and yes, I know correlation does not automatically equate to causation) together with the direct consequences it would have on trans kids seems much more suggestive of the withdrawal of care playing a role than COVID.
I used COVID as shorthand for “the pandemic, lockdown, restricted NHS care, etc”
Surely a better and far easier measure is to look at suicide rates of the whole population vs suicide rates in trans people specifically? You don’t need to factor in covid at all.