A new study challenges the popular claim that medical interventions improve trans-identifying people’s mental health. Rather, the study argues, nonmedical factors like social support and coping style are far more important determinants of these individuals’ mental-health outcomes.
For years, doctors and medical associations have argued that patients with gender-related distress, including children, suffer from depression and suicidality and need access to “gender-affirming care” to relieve it. They presented this view as the scientific consensus, and that view has shaped policy debates about how readily these interventions should be offered and under what—if any—safeguards.
LGBTQI+ activist says the Canadian trans mass shooter is “the first victim of this tragedy.”
“It was the day that they could not take it any longer.”
Jesse Strang shot 9 people dead after opening fire at a high school.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 11, 2026
