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Republicans are quietly pushing to defund transgender healthcare even for adults (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Based on the available evidence, the concerns about cancer in transgender populations, albeit biologically plausible, are neither adequately supported nor convincingly alleviated because of a lack of well-designed epidemiologic studies.

From this paper.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5868281/

The biggest risk seems to be HPV causing cancer, which may not be related to hormones at all, but the fact that trans people may be more likely to have HPV to begin with. And how HPV will interact with gender affirming surgery, rather than with hormones.

In other words, the jury is still out and what you are repeating is not science but likely transphobic propaganda.

And on the other side of the equation you have to consider that gender incongruence causes severe suicidal ideation in a lot of transgender people.

So, if it was your loved one struggling for decades with suicidal ideation and attempts, would you want them denied life-saving medication because it might increase the risk of cancer? Because that's what your argument boils down too. Denying adults life-saving medicine because it's plausible that it could increase the risk of cancer.

And just to nail my point home, here's an article on how common medications used to treat depression increase the risk of cancer. Should we stop prescribing those too?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259481/

[-] edwardthefma99@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

i did not say adults i was clearly meaning kids in sorry but givng kids cancer causing drugs is messed up if your a adult you have a fullly developed brain and cam make the decision appropriately

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