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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6150386" data-attributes="member: 48469">The Atlantic is a pretty far left outlet.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/transgender-youth-skrmetti/683350/[/URL]<h3>The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine</h3>How the left ended up disbelieving the science6/29/25“Allow children to transition, or they will kill themselves. For more than a decade, this has been the strongest argument in favor of youth gender medicine—a scenario so awful that it stifled any doubts or questions about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.”——————-“But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isn’t true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.”———————“Advocates of the open-science movement often talk about “zombie facts”—popular sound bites that persist in public debate, even when they have been repeatedly discredited. Many common political claims made in defense of puberty blockers and hormones for gender-dysphoric minors meet this definition.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6150386, member: 48469"] The Atlantic is a pretty far left outlet. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/transgender-youth-skrmetti/683350/[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine[/SIZE][/HEADING] How the left ended up disbelieving the science 6/29/25 [I]“Allow children to transition, or they will kill themselves.[/I] For more than a decade, this has been the strongest argument in favor of youth gender medicine—a scenario so awful that it stifled any doubts or questions about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.” ——————- “But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isn’t true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.” ——————— “Advocates of the open-science movement often talk about “zombie facts”—popular sound bites that persist in public debate, even when they have been repeatedly discredited. Many common political claims made in defense of puberty blockers and hormones for gender-dysphoric minors meet this definition.” [/QUOTE]

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