UW Medicine propped up false claims by researchers claiming gender-affirming care via puberty blockers leads to positive mental health outcomes for transgender teen patients. But that’s not what the research concluded, forcing the UW to edit the press release. After questions by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, the UW even removed a video created to promote the work.
It appears the researcher presented false claims to push back at recent policies the researchers and school abhor.
Fourth-year student at UW Medicine Arin Collin and UW Ph.D. epidemiology candidate Diana Tordoff tracked the mental health of 104 transgender patients aged 13 to 20 over the course of a year. The patients went through gender-affirming care, which the researchers defined as taking either Leuprolide, Testosterone, or Estradiol.
Using the data collected from patient experiences, the researchers and UW claimed in a press release that gender-affirming care “dramatically reduces” depression, calling it “lifesaving care.” The study was published in JAMA Open Network.
“The results were very dramatic,” Collin declared.
Collin said this research shows that gender-affirming care has “a great deal of power in walking back baseline adverse mental health outcomes that the transgender population overwhelmingly burdens at a very young age.”
But the actual data did not show that.
The study makes a bold claim.
“Our study provides quantitative evidence...
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