>>16492471>teenagers who started hormone therapy half a decade agoThe study literally does not say that though.
>We included people who started medical treatment in adolescence with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) to suppress puberty before the age of 18 years and used GnRHa for a minimum duration of 3 months before addition of gender-affirming hormones.Interestingly, they didn't look for all the people who started hormone therapy. From the very beginning they excluded everyone who abandoned the treatment under 3 months. Everyone prompt to regret falling for this shit simply doesn't exist to begin with.
>At the start of GnRHa treatment, the median age was 14·1 (IQR 13·0–16·3) years for people assigned male at birth and 16·0 (14·1–16·9) years for people assigned female at birth. Median age at end of data collection was 20·2 (17·9–24·8) years for people assigned male at birth and 19·2 (17·8–22·0) years for those assigned female at birth.More so, they NEVER selected random people when they started their treatment and followed them for 5 years to know whether or not those specific people continued their treatment. Of course they wouldn't do that because the results might not be the results they were aiming for. They merely selected 720 people who happened to start hormone therapy as teenagers, and analyzed them a posteriori. Why 720 people? How did they select them? Well, they just did, okay.
It's also false that those teenagers had been trans for five years. If the median age for afab was 16 when they started their treatment and 19 at the end of data collection, the median time those people had "been" trans by the end of the study was 3 years. The median time for amab is 6 years, but there are less than half as many amabs as there are afab in the study, so the average is still far below that misleading "half a decade."
It says a lot when the best argument to groom children are just lies on top of a cherrypicked study made with adolescents.
