1 in 1,000 Privately Insured 17-Year-Olds Were Taking Cross-Sex Hormones Prior to US State Bans

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Astonishing numbers.

By age 17, about 1 in 1,000 privately insured minors were receiving gender-transition hormones between 2018 and 2022. This broke down to about 140 per 100,000 natal girls taking testosterone and 82 per 100,000 natal boys taking estrogen by this final year before teens hit the age of majority.

Compared with cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers were prescribed to adolescents with a transgender-related diagnosis at a much lower overall rate during this five-year period.

The youngest children to have received cross-sex hormones, the study authors found, were 12 years old, albeit at a vanishingly low rate. The rate of such prescriptions rose through the adolescents’ teen years and peaked at age 17, with use consistently higher among natal girls.

The rate of puberty blocker use peaked at age 13 for natal girls, at about 20 per 100,000 females at this age, and age 16 for natal boys, at about 18 per 100,000 such males.

https://benryan.substack.com/p/1-in-1000-privately-insured-17-year

And a link to the underlying source.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2828427?utm_campaign=articlePDF&utm_medium=articlePDFlink&utm_source=articlePDF&utm_content=jamapediatrics.2024.6081

I wonder if that includes the kids who were deliberately misregistered as the opposite sex with low levels of hormones as opposed to having the correct levels for their actual sex, which a whistleblower revealed last year?

@AlisonDonut I didn't hear about that, what kind of numbers were the whistleblowers talking about?

I hope the law suits make these ghoulish doctors regret experimenting on vulnerable children.

Wasn't that Australia?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5106375-women-and-girls-prescribed-t-for-testicular-disorder?reply=136328632

That's the issue isn't it - nobody knows.

It was after Ethan Haim blew the whistle on the Texas Children's Hospital's declaration that they weren't performing any more 'transgender surgeries' when he knew they were as he worked there. And after that an ex nurse Vanessa Sivadge not only corroborated his story but they were registering the children as the opposite sex in order to fund cross sex hormones through medical insurance which had by that point been stopped.

It is all such a mess.

This was in the back of my mind too, although of course still relevant as an issue that needs surfacing.

Thank you for clarifying that it happened in the US as well @AlisonDonut . What a mess indeed.

These children have been so badly let down. That it continues still, and that some are yet to even take their first irrerversible medication... and will go on to do so... is just as heartbreaking as thinking about the existing victims of this scandal.