Landmark Study Shows Suicide, Psychiatric Conditions Much Higher In Transgender People

A new Danish landmark study finds that suicide rates and psychiatric conditions are much higher among trans-identifying people.

Trans-identifying people in Denmark had a suicide death rate 3.5 times higher and a suicide attempt rate 7.7 times higher than people who did not identify as transgender, according to the study, which was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

There were 92 suicide attempts and 12 suicide deaths among the study’s 3,759 trans-identifying people between 1980 and 2021.

The study analyzed the medical and legal gender change records of nearly seven million people in Denmark, including the nearly 3,800 transgender people, over the last four decades.

Trans-identifying people also tended to die younger overall, whether by suicide or something else, the study found.

However, suicide rates in both groups decreased over the four decades the study examined.

“Results suggest that transgender individuals had significantly higher rates of suicide attempt, suicide mortality, suicide-unrelated mortality, and all-cause mortality compared with the nontransgender population,” the study said.

Meanwhile, the rate of psychiatric conditions was higher for the trans-identifying group.

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Nearly 43% of the trans-identifying people had a psychiatric diagnosis, compared with just 7% of the non-trans-identifying group.

“This is beyond doubt a huge problem that needs to be looked at,” said one of the authors of the study, Dr. Morten Frisch, a sexual health epidemiologist at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen.

The study’s authors suggested that their findings might possibly apply to the U.S. as well since the U.S. and Denmark have similar suicide rates, about 14 suicides per 100,000 people.

However, the rate of people who identify as transgender could be as much as ten times higher in the U.S. than in Denmark, data from the Williams Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles suggests, although the Danish researchers also noted that they may not have captured newer waves of trans-identification that are more prevalent among younger populations.

Gender ideology activists in the U.S. often argue that trans-identifying people, especially youth, are at a higher risk of suicide if they are denied drastic medical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender surgeries such as double mastectomies and later genital surgeries.

However, Denmark is famously progressive on the transgender issue and rates as one of the most LGBT-friendly countries in the world, even above the U.S.

The group of Danish trans-identifying people analyzed in the study were recognized as transgender in either their legal or medical records.

In 1989, Denmark became the first country in the world to legally recognize same-sex partnerships. Denmark has allowed people to undergo sex change operations and receive hormone therapy since at least the early 1950s. Since 2014, Danish people 18 and older can legally change their gender simply by stating that they want to do so.

In the U.S., critics have sounded the alarm about the permanent effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries. Young people who previously identified as transgender have also spoken out about regretting getting medical intervention.

At least 17 states have moved to restrict hormone treatments and gender surgeries for children as more minors seek them out.

Meanwhile, it is more popular than ever for youth to adopt new gender identities. An estimated 300,000 minors aged 13 to 17 identified as transgender as of last year, a sharp increase over the previous few years. From 2017 to 2021, gender dysphoria diagnoses in children nearly tripled.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255.

Ben Shapiro Responds To Roseanne Barr’s Comments On The Holocaust

The media is trying to dishonestly “re-cancel” comedian Roseanne Barr over a podcast appearance where she made sarcastic comments related to the Holocaust, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said Wednesday.

Barr made the comments on an appearance on Theo Von’s podcast this week in an effort to express her belief that the 2020 election was stolen and that President Joe Biden did not fairly defeat former President Donald Trump. 

“There’s such a thing as the truth and facts, and we have to stick to it, and that is the truth,” the onetime TV star and stand-up comic said after a series of comments declaring the 2020 election free of corruption. “Nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That’s the truth. It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now because they cause all the problems in the world, but it never happened.”

Shapiro said on his podcast that, in context, Barr’s comments were obviously sarcastic, and that the media was just attempting to further destroy Barr’s career. He added that almost any comedian, like Dave Chappelle or Louis C.K., could easily be canceled by just reading their monologues out of context. 

“And the entire media ran with this as though she actually was calling for a new Holocaust, which she clearly is not. And I’ve got to say, like Roseanne says, crazy stuff sometimes and bad stuff sometimes. But this is obviously a media attempt to re-cancel Roseanne Barr,” Shapiro said. “You can hear she’s being sarcastic. It’s a failed attempt at sarcasm, but it’s clearly sarcasm.”

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The Daily Wire co-founder explained that Barr was framing her statements in a way to pair two things she didn’t actually believe. 

“She’s taking the position of the YouTube censors and she’s saying in the same category of things that are false,” Shapiro said. “These are two things are false, she is saying: Biden won 81 million votes and the Holocaust didn’t happen. She’s saying both those things are false. Right. That’s what she’s actually saying.”

Shapiro said that the media and the Left did this to him all the time, taking comments meant to be comedic and treating them seriously. 

“They’re doing it to make fun of me, which is totally fine. They’re doing it to Roseanne to try and destroy whatever’s left of her career, which is really not fine,” he said. 

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