MedPage Today (11/16, DePeau-Wilson) reports “hospitalizations due to suicidality and self-harm were four or fives times more common in young people with gender dysphoria-related diagnoses compared with those without such diagnoses, a serial cross-sectional study” published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health showed. Among non-binary and transgender “young people ages 6 to 20 included in the Kids’ Inpatient Database for 2016 and 2019, 36% of those with gender dysphoria-related codes also had suicidality codes compared with 5% of those without gender dysphoria-related codes in 2016…and these rates were 55% versus 4% in 2019…reported” the researchers.
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