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Transgender youth on puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones have lower rates of depression and suicidal thoughts
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Transgender youth on puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones have lower rates of depression and suicidal thoughts

by Diana Tordoff, Arin Collin, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Recent studies estimate that 1.8% to 2.7%—or approximately 750,000 to 1.1 million—adolescents in the U.S. identify as transgender or nonbinary. Many of these trans youth experience high levels of negative mental health symptoms due to anti-transgender stigma, discrimination and lack of family or peer support. A 2021 study found...