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I am deleting this, and the reason is simple: all of these statements are misleading if not outright lies. The first one is written by someone who called providing gender affirming care to children "medically and morally appalling" when she herself never worked with these people. Her credentials did not put her in the line of work to so much as see these patients, she was a bookkeeper and seen the demographics of kids coming into the clinic for gender affirming care and used that fact alone as a means of claiming that they were being "fast tracked" to transition while blatantly lying about the process that is very well documented that trans kids have to go through to even be seen by such healthcare professionals (claiming kids would be pencil-whipped in by therapists after 1-2 sessions, when the industry standard is 6 months of therapy biweekly before being able to receive their written approval), as well as claiming that there is no evidence that shows that suicide rates go down with treatment, when that is the single most widely documented and confirmed fact out of all data surrounding trans healthcare.

The second study talks about how they people who have a gender dysphoria diagnosis who hadn't gone on HTR yet were 7x less likely to have cardiovascular problems, but they failed to provide any demographic information for each side, and considering how many people have a gender dysphoria diagnosis that are not able to get HRT due to being too young, the study boiled down to saying "kids are less likely to have cardiovascular issues than adults." You don't say...(and even this study didn't suggest that people not transition but rather that we just be aware to watch out for it, and further stated that in spite of the increased risk, there was not a single death tied to these statistics)

The last one is a single person talking about how they wish they hadn't transitioned, and are trying to use their personal experience to dictate how trans healthcare should be universally restricted,  while blatantly ignoring the tens if not hundreds of thousands of kids who attempt suicide due to being restricted from gender affirming care. If we restricted all healthcare based on if one person publicly said they regretted it, there would not be a single medical procedure that would ever be done again, as transition and sexual reassignment surgery have one of if not the single lowest regret rates out of every medical procedure you can possibly go through. To restrict trans helthcare universally to cater to the >0.1% of people with regret is doing WILDLY more harm than good, and the suggestion that we should let kids kill themselves lest they fall in the tiny category of people who might regret it is absolutely appalling. I will not allow misinformation and poor-faith guidance to be spread by people who cherry pick poorly written studies and extremely rare case studies to try to undermine the mountain of evidence and testimonials of how trans helthcare LITERALLY SAVES LIVES and is supported by doctors and researchers worldwide.