WASHINGTON—New Heritage Foundation research shows that access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones does not reduce youth suicide rates. This challenges a key argument that such access to gender transition drugs saves lives.
Jay Greene, a senior research fellow at the conservative think tank’s center for education policy, authored a report on the findings, hoping the new evidence would allow policymakers to take more cautious and deliberate approaches to set regulations.
“Policymakers and parents are essentially being emotionally blackmailed with the threat that if they don’t make these drugs widely and readily available, young people will kill themselves,” Greene told The Epoch Times. “And this short circuits all other kinds of discussions and considerations because it’s such a horrific thing. No one wants to be responsible for that.”…