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Trump orders national institutes of health (NIH) to study transition regret.

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So far the people who have been lying about this are fussing that they think funding is being taken away from something else which not necessarily.
 
Pyrite said:
And black lung research/funding.
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Sure, why not! RFK already said they're going to find the cause of autism by September!

Kennedy says Health and Human Services will determine the cause of autism by September​
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"Scientists have since ruled out a link between vaccines and autism, finding no evidence of increased rates of autism among those who are vaccinated compared to those who are not."​
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And to do it, he hired a guy that insists it's caused by vaccinations...which has already been disproven, many times. :rolleyes:
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"Kennedy has hired David Geier, a man who has repeatedly claimed a link between vaccines and autism, to lead the autism research effort. The hiring of Geier, who the state of Maryland found was practicing medicine on a child without a doctor’s license, was first reported by The Washington Post."​
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Kennedy says Health and Human Services will determine the cause of autism by September

Trump suggested that vaccines could be to blame for autism rates, although decades of research have concluded there is no link between the two.
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So sho knows what miracles they'll discover about transitioning?
 
CLAX1911 said:
So far the people who have been lying about this are fussing that they think funding is being taken away from something else which not necessarily.
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Transition regret is about 4%.
In the US, a survey of nearly 28,000 people found that 8% of respondents reported some kind of detransition. Of this 8%, 62% percent only did so temporarily due to societal, financial, or family pressures..
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I have sources for my claims. https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/


A total of 27 studies, pooling 7928 transgender patients who underwent any type of GAS, were included. The pooled prevalence of regret after GAS was 1% (95% CI <1%–2%). Overall, 33% underwent transmasculine procedures and 67% transfemenine procedures. The prevalence of regret among patients undergoing transmasculine and transfemenine surgeries was <1% (IC <1%–<1%) and 1% (CI <1%–2%), respectively. A total of 77 patients regretted having had GAS. Twenty-eight had minor and 34 had major regret based on Pfäfflin’s regret classification. The majority had clear regret based on Kuiper and Cohen-Kettenis classification.
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Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence - PMC

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
Lisa said:
Transition regret is about 4%.
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So you're happy Donald Trump is doing this because it will confirm what you say right?
Lisa said:
I have sources for my claims. https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/
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So whatever the hell this is Plus NIH will be even more confirmation for what you say right?
Lisa said:

Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence - PMC

Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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CLAX1911 said:
So you're happy Donald Trump is doing this because it will confirm what you say right?

So whatever the hell this is Plus NIH will be even more confirmation for what you say right?
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Nobody is going to believe anything that comes from Trump or RFK. They have zero credibility, especially on a politically charged subject that is part of the GOP harassment of transgender people.

The people at the NIH and others in the medical community already see it for what it is. Its a political hit job.


The plan is causing deep concern among many researchers and in the LGBTQ+ community. NPR discussed the memo with some researchers and advocates.


"What they're looking for is a political answer not a scientific one," says Adrian Shanker, who served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy at HHS under President Biden. "That should be an alarm for everyone who cares about the scientific integrity of the National Institutes of Health."


Among the red flags in the directive is the language, Shanker and others say.


"Chemical or surgical mutilation? These are deeply offensive terms," says Harry Barbee, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


"This terminology has no place in serious scientific or public health discourse," Barbee says. "The language has been historically used to stigmatize trans people. Even the phrase 'regret' and 'detransition' can be weaponized."


Many researchers say there is already a solid body of evidence that the level of regret after transition and the decision to reverse the transition is very low.
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Oh goodie - spend money on that but not cancer research and communicable diseases.

That tracks

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In: culture war bullshit.
Out: research on neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases.
David R. Walt, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, lost hundreds of thousands in research funding from the Trump administration last week — just two months after receiving the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. . .

“My lab is involved in developing new diagnostics tests for neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS), cancer (breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and others), and infectious diseases,” Walt wrote in a statement to The Crimson.

“We are making incredible progress and cancellation of funding would set these projects back and would significantly delay their availability to diagnose, predict drug effectiveness, and monitor relapse,” he added.

If funding is revoked, many scientists at HMS and affiliate hospitals could lose their labs, their teams, and their careers. Several researchers declined to comment publicly for fear their funding would be targeted by the federal government.
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Joren C. Madsen, director of the Mass General Hospital Transplant Center, said his lab — where the first-ever successful pig kidney transplant was performed last year — relies heavily on federal funding.

“Since my research requires significant overhead, it wouldn’t take much of a loss to shut my lab down completely,” Madsen wrote.
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This was a great country once.
 
CLAX1911 said:
So all this trans business is just culture war?
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The GOP obsession with other people's genitalia is culture war stuff, yes. Trump intervening to pivot the NIH away from researching cancer and disease to this is culture war.

Believe it or not multiple people can do research on multiple things at the same time.
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Trump cut the funding for real biomedical research.
 
Greenbeard said:
The GOP obsession with other people's genitalia is culture war stuff, yes.
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I would agree if that was a thing but it's not. Nobody cares about this dishonest framing
Greenbeard said:
Trump intervening to pivot the NIH away from researching cancer and disease to this is culture war.
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So transition has nothing to do with health?
Greenbeard said:
Trump cut the funding for real biomedical research.
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And you think he did this just because he's a big mean stupid head?
 
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