cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38251967
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
(UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks
Submitted 1 day ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Wes Streeting et al were warned suicide numbers would surge if they did it. They ignored the warning and did it anyway. Suicide numbers did then surge. Streeting et al called the reporting on the surge irresponsible and wrong and denied it all. Now this FOI shows the carnage. Carnage that is most likely as this stage under-reported.
And nothing will change because to the Wes Streeting’s of this world - and sadly a lot of the UK general public - there’s a difference between dead kids and dead trans kids.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 day ago
The surge is in 2021. 3 years before Labour was in power.
I suspect this is probability COVID related.
leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You’re right that I was wrong that it was Wes Streeting who was warned - got my dates muddled - but it was him as then leader of DoH who commissioned and then downplayed the report into the surge in suicides. It was him and his dept who tried to block various FOI requests. They knew.
Not sure how you come to the conclusion this is COVID related though.