@TheiaCurious@PrymeStardusk@mushycrouton@_CryMiaRiver It absolutely can.
You can reject a child hanging with a bad crowd.
Then not affirm their gender dysphoria after already having an existing conflict in the parent-child relationship.
@TheiaCurious@PrymeStardusk@mushycrouton@_CryMiaRiver Right, and you're missing that part of whether that rejection precedes or is caused by the lack of affirmation.
There is a hypothesis, but a lack of any evidence that can ascertain the directionality that is hypothesized.
@TheiaCurious@PrymeStardusk@mushycrouton@_CryMiaRiver Your metric again, fails to find an effect of affirmation. This could indicate affirmation comes downstream of other behavioral issues, and simply correlates with other detrimental outcomes.
It can't clarify whether lack of affirmation causes runaways and suicide attempts.
@TheiaCurious@PrymeStardusk@mushycrouton@_CryMiaRiver Of course not. I'm not making the claim that this is harmful, I'm pointing out it's not well evidenced. Any approach someone wants to suggest would need high quality research.
@popqween01@nypost Right, which is why it says 'stolen' rather than stolen.
You're missing the part where the title indicates that 'stolen' is not a literal term.
@ToothTruther@spiderking232@MoronMining Problem is it hasn't been meaningfully tried for decades. And there's quite a lot of problem with the evidence with regards to pediatric gender dysphoria.
@FrankJSchneider@FreezerBurnv2@MattWalshBlog Though it's important to note that gender affirming care is given to people with gender dysphoria, not to people with normal hormonal disorders.
@TheiaCurious@PrymeStardusk@mushycrouton@_CryMiaRiver Except they don't find that gender affirming care in minors decreases suicidality.
The association is even likely to be the opposite way around, that minors lower in suicidality are more likely to get affirmed if they asked for it.
@TheiaCurious@PrymeStardusk@mushycrouton@_CryMiaRiver The studies we have don't consistently point in one direction.
This is part of the problem, the evidence is so poor that trying to claim that suicide is reduced is not responsible.
The pattern of the studies is inconsistent and indicates weak evidence and high risk of bias.