{"id":1735597,"date":"2022-11-11T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735597"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:33:03","slug":"new-data-emerges-of-1100-adolescent-gender-affirming-mastectomies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-data-emerges-of-1100-adolescent-gender-affirming-mastectomies\/","title":{"rendered":"New Data Emerges Of 1,100+ Adolescent \u2018Gender Affirming\u2019 Mastectomies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-data-emerges-of-1100-adolescent-gender-affirming-mastectomies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735597&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/article-abstract\/2797439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> of nationwide hospital databases found that at least 1,130 adolescents between 2016 and 2019 received \u201cgender-affirming\u201d chest surgeries in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, saw a 389% increase in adolescents (ages 12-17) obtaining chest surgeries from 2016 to 2019. An overwhelming majority (1,114) of the adolescents seeking this surgery were female (98.6%), and just 16 were male (1.4%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our knowledge, this study is the largest investigation to date of gender-affirming chest reconstruction in a pediatric population,\u201d the paper\u2019s authors wrote, who are each affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center. \u201cThe results demonstrate substantial increases in gender-affirming chest reconstruction for adolescents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeorSapir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leor Sapir<\/a>, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/floridas-reason-and-compassion-on-gender-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believes<\/a> the study significantly underestimates the number of adolescents who have received gender-related chest surgeries, as it only contains hospital-based data and not private surgery centers. The data was collected from the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample (NASS), an out-patient hospital surgery database in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJAMA included only procedures performed in hospitals, not by plastic surgeons in private settings,\u201d said Sapir. \u201cBecause these procedures yield around $10,000 per patient, many mastectomies take place outside of hospitals in surgery centers owned by plastic surgeons themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-463321\" class=\"wp-image-463321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-4.06.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-4.06.40-PM.png 1341w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-4.06.40-PM-300x255-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-4.06.40-PM-678x576-1.png 678w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-11-at-4.06.40-PM-768x652-1.png 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-463321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image provided by JAMA Pediatrics<\/p>\n<p>The ages of the pediatric patients ranged from 12 to 17, with 42 (5.5%)\u00a0of the recipients between 12 and 14, 131 (16%) aged 15, 291 (34.5%) aged 16, and 365 (44%) aged 17.<\/p>\n<p>Race and ethnicity were collected from hospital records only in 2019, the authors note. The vast majority of patients were white (77.9%), followed by Hispanics (12.2%), blacks (2.7%), Asian or Pacific Islanders (2.5%), and Native Americans (0.5%). About 4% were categorized as \u201cother race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The median total charges for chest reconstruction were $29,886 ($21,285\u2013$45,147), a number that was adjusted for inflation, the authors note. Most of the chest surgeries (61.1%) were covered by private health insurance, 16.5% used public health insurance including Medicaid, 15.8% paid out of pocket, and 6.7% indicated \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most adolescents included in the analysis lived in a densely populated area, with 68% living in a county with over one million residents, 21.9% lived in a moderately densely populated area, and only 9.8% lived in a county with less than a quarter million residents. Over half of those who obtained chest surgeries had a family annual income of over $82,000.<\/p>\n<p>Psychiatric comorbidities for patients were listed, which included anxiety (21.1%) and depression (16.2%), but this is likely a significant underestimate since these numbers were much lower than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endocrine.org\/news-and-advocacy\/news-room\/2020\/transgender-teens-have-high-rates-of-depression-suicidal-thoughts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high rates<\/a> of depression typically seen among trans-identified teens. It is therefore likely that mental health data in the hospital database were not comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the same four authors, with the addition of two others, published a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35863009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> on adults who received \u201cgender-affirming\u201d chest reconstruction surgeries. Their results, also using NASS outpatient hospital data, found that 21,293 individuals obtained chest surgeries between 2016 and 2019, a 143.2% increase. The large majority of chest surgeries were performed on female patients, with 82.1% receiving double mastectomies; 27.9% of trans-identifying males received breast augmentations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of nationwide hospital databases found that at least 1,130 adolescents between 2016 and 2019 received \u201cgender-affirming\u201d chest surgeries in the U.S. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, saw a 389% increase in adolescents (ages 12-17) obtaining chest surgeries from 2016 to 2019. An overwhelming majority (1,114) of the adolescents seeking this surgery &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1489,"featured_media":1735600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}