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Date:Thursday, May 18, 2023 1:03:33 PM
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Dear Jefferson Board of Health,
Today's meeting agenda includes an hour-long "TG
and Nonbinary Health and Wellness Presentation"
supported by a JAMA article from February 2022 in the meeting packet.
For balance, please consider this January 2022
NIH-funded study on "Psychosocial Functioning in
TG Youth after 2 Years of Hormones"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297
...that has drawn criticism for its
expermentation on minors causing suicidal
ideation, sterilization, and 2 deaths.
Yours truly,
Stephen
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297
Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones
Results
A total of 315 transgender and nonbinary
participants 12 to 20 years of age (mean [±SD],
16±1.9) were enrolled in the study. A total of
190 participants (60.3%) were transmasculine
(i.e., persons designated female at birth who
identify along the masculine spectrum), 185
(58.7%) were non-Latinx or non-Latine White, and
25 (7.9%) had received previous pubertal
suppression treatment. During the study period,
appearance congruence, positive affect, and life
satisfaction increased, and depression and
anxiety symptoms decreased. Increases in
appearance congruence were associated with
concurrent increases in positive affect and life
satisfaction and decreases in depression and
anxiety symptoms. The most common adverse event
was suicidal ideation (in 11 participants
[3.5%]); death by suicide occurred in 2 participants.
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https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/09/exclusive-republicans-demand-answers-nih-transgender-youth-
experiments-study-left-2-dead-others-sterilized/
Answers Demanded From NIH on Transgender Youth
'Experiments' Study That Left 2 Dead, Others Sterilized
<https://www.dailysignal.com/author/tyler-oneil/>Tyler
O'Neil / <http://twitter.com/Tyler2ONeil>@Tyler2ONeil / May 09, 2023
House and Senate Republicans sent a letter to theNational Institutes of Health Tuesday, demandinganswers after a study on "gender-affirming care" resulted in two suicides.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297
Fifteen Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate
sent a letter to the National Institutes ofHealth Tuesday, demanding answers about a studyon experimental medical interventions for youthwho claim to<https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/transgender/>identify as transgender.
Two of the study participants committed suicide,11 experienced suicidal ideation, and the drugsparticipants took will likely sterilize them, the Republicans noted.
"It is sickening that the federal government ispreying on young people and using our taxpayerdollars to advance its radical gender ideology,"Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., told<https://www.dailysignal.com/author/tyler-oneil/>The
Daily Signal in a statement on the letter,exclusively provided to The Daily Signal. "We arerightfully demanding answers from NIH and we arecommitted to holding those responsibleaccountable for this tragic loss of life."
The National Institutes of Health granted$477,444 in a five-year grant to the BostonChildren's Hospital, the University of Californiaat San Francisco, and the Lurie Children'sHospital of Chicago for the study,"<https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297>Psychosocial
Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years ofHormones." Dr. Diane Chen at the Lurie Children'sHospital led the study, which the New EnglandJournal of Medicine published in January.
The study analyzed 315 participants, identifiedas<https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/29/trans-inquisition-rachel-levine-enlists-state-medical-boards-pressure-big-tech-stamp-transgender-heresy/>transgender
and nonbinary, between the ages of 12 and 20,over the course of two years. These participantsreceived "gender-affirming hormones," i.e.hormones to make their male or female bodies
resemble bodies of the opposite sex.
"During the study period, appearance congruence,
positive affect, and life satisfaction increased,and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased,"Chen's article on the study claims. Elevenparticipants experienced suicidal ideation, and two committed suicide.
In the letter, the Republicans express "graveconcerns" about the study, noting that 240 of the315 participants were minors.https://brecheen.house.gov/uploadedfiles/brecheen-budd_letter_to_nih_.pdf
The Republicans cite a report from the
<https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/>medical
organization Do No Harm, which found the study"fatally flawed and borderline unscientific."
"Notably, the four clinics and some of theresearchers who conducted this experiment areoutspoken advocates for conducting gendertransition interventions on children," the GOPletter notes. "In a video it later removed fromits YouTube channel, Boston Children's Hospital,one of the clinics involved, went as far as toclaim that children can know their genderidentity 'from the womb.' Johanna Olson, aco-author of this paper, told CNN in 2014, 'We'redefinitely in the middle of a gender revolutionand it's exciting.' This same researcher laterreceived a federal grant for a study in which shealtered protocol to allow children as young as 8years old to receive cross-sex hormones."
The Republicans note the two suicides and 11episodes of suicidal ideation. "Rather thanshutting the study down after such seriousadverse events, the researchers published theirpaper, concluding that the study was a successbecause cross-sex hormones had altered subjects'physical appearance and improved psychosocialfunctioning," the letter notes. "However, theresearchers admitted that they were not able toproperly establish causality between theadministration of cross-sex hormones and improvedpsychosocial functioning because their study lacked a control group."
"It is alarming that vulnerable young people diedby suicide while participating in ataxpayer-funded study that will almost certainlyinflict devastating physical harm on those whoparticipated," the letter adds. "Twenty-fourparticipants in this study received cross-sexhormones after puberty suppression or 'in earlypuberty' and are likely sterile as a result.Further, participants are now at increased risk
for cardiovascular disease, blood clotting, and a list of other complications."
The Republicans also cite research showing that
"<https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/18/exclusive-kristi-noem-backs-bill-protect-minors-transgender-surgeries-medical-interventions/>gender
dysphoria in minors often resolves as theyprogress through pubertycompletely underminingthe idea that children should have their bodiespermanently altered to match their changing identities."
"Despite overwhelming evidence that chemicallytransitioning children is not safe, the NIH plansto give more than $10.6 million to experiment onchildren and adolescents through 2026," theletter adds. "We are deeply concerned about youragency's use of taxpayer dollars to advanceexperiments on children who will be irreversiblyharmed by radical gender ideology."
The letter ends with a request for responses to14 questions by a deadline of June 9, 2023. TheRepublicans ask how old the two individuals whodied by suicide were, where they received"treatment," and when the researchers at thatsite alerted other researchers of the suicides.They ask the NIH to "list the steps that weretaken to halt and review the study after thefirst and second deaths," and whether otherparticipants were notified of the suicides. Theyalso ask whether other participants and theirparents were given the opportunity to withdrawfrom the study following the suicides.
"Have study participants been evaluated to assesssterility or impaired fertility as a result ofreceiving cross-sex hormones?" the Republicansask. "Will a follow-up occur to evaluate thelong-term physiological state of the subjects?"
The letter notes that six participants withdrewfrom the study, and asks for these participants'ages and their reasons for withdrawing. It alsorequests information on "ongoing or proposed NIHfunding for studies involving<https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/07/what-they-hiding-transgender-groups-refuse-hand-internal-documents-even-they-move-oppose-florida-medicaid-rule/>transgender
or nonbinary identified minors."
"Despite glaring shortfalls, thisgovernment-funded research is already being usedto further the fallacy that chemicallytransitioning children is safe and effective," the letter laments.
Five Senate Republicans joined the letter,including North Carolina's Ted Budd, Florida'sMarco Rubio, Kentucky's Rand Paul, Oklahoma'sJames Lankford, and Utah's Mike Lee. Ten House
Republicans joined the letter: Brecheen;
Illinois' Mary Miller; Colorado's Lauren Boebert;
Arizona's Andy Biggs and Eli Crane; SouthCarolina's Jeff Duncan; and Texas' Randy Weber,Chip Roy, Ronny Jackson, and Michael Cloud.
Budd, who led the effort in the Senate, declaredthat taxpayers should not have to foot the billfor studies on "gender-affirming care" for minors.
"Taxpayer dollars should not be used to fundstudies that encourage gender transitioninterventions on young people," Budd told TheDaily Signal in a statement Monday. "The NIH mustbe held accountable for using taxpayer dollars tostudy these highly questionable experiments."<https://first-heritage-foundation.s3.amazonaws.com/live_files/2023/05/Brecheen-Budd-Letter-to-NIH-FINAL.pdf>Brecheen-Budd-Letter-to-NIH-FINAL<https://first-heritage-
foundation.s3.amazonaws.com/live_files/2023/05/Brecheen-Budd-Letter-to-NIH-FINAL.pdf>Download
https://brecheen.house.gov/uploadedfiles/brecheen-budd_letter_to_nih_.pdf