{"id":1928366,"date":"2023-05-10T22:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/concerns-raised-in-congress-as-2-youths-commit-suicide-in-taxpayer-funded-cross-sex-hormone-study\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T22:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:12:19","slug":"concerns-raised-in-congress-as-2-youths-commit-suicide-in-taxpayer-funded-cross-sex-hormone-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/concerns-raised-in-congress-as-2-youths-commit-suicide-in-taxpayer-funded-cross-sex-hormone-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress concerned as 2 youths commit suicide in taxpayer-funded hormone study."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fconcerns-raised-in-congress-as-2-youths-commit-suicide-in-taxpayer-funded-cross-sex-hormone-study%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=1928366&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>Lawmakers Demand Answers After Transgender Hormone Study Linked to Suicides<\/p>\n<p>Two young people have died by suicide during a transgender hormone study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/concerns-raised-in-congress-as-2-youths-commit-suicide-in-taxpayer-funded-cross-sex-hormone-study\/\" title=\"Congress concerned as 2 youths commit suicide in taxpayer-funded hormone study.\">11 participants reported suicidal thoughts<\/a> during the study. Lawmakers are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tuberville-wants-biden-to-retaliate-against-china-for-sanctions-against-trump-officials\/\" title=\"Tuberville Wants Biden to Retaliate Against China for Sanctions Against Trump Officials\">demanding answers<\/a> and questioning why the study wasn&#8217;t halted after participants died or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-new-alzheimers-drug-cuts-symptoms-by-30-percent\/\" title=\"A New Alzheimer\u2019s Drug Cuts Symptoms By 30 Percent\">reported adverse effects<\/a>. The study, which aimed to analyze the psychosocial state of transgender and nonbinary youth between the ages of 12 and 20, has been criticized for subjecting children to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-has-only-just-begun\/\" title=\"GOP: The Fight Against Critical Race Theory Has Only Just Begun\">radical gender ideology<\/a>.&#8221; Of the 315 study subjects, 240 were minors. The study received a five-year grant of $477,444 from NIH and was led by Dr. Diane Chen at the Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital. Lawmakers have blasted the study for its lack of a control group and for not addressing the risks of cardiovascular disease and blood clotting. They also criticized the study for not dwelling on the suicides and instead reporting &#8220;positive&#8221; effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-for-children\/\" title=\"\u2018Very Complicated\u2019: Dr. Rachel Levine Dodges Sen. Paul\u2019s Issue About Sex Adjustments For Children\">cross-sex hormones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are demanding answers after the suicide deaths of two young people involved in a transgender hormone study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additionally, 11 participants reported suicidal thoughts during the study, according to a January article by researchers published in the\u00a0New England Journal of Medicine\u00a0(NEJM). In a\u00a0letter\u00a0to Dr. Lawrence Tabak, acting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":1928367,"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":[543],"tags":[6625,4511,4402,18321,4866,6530,5953,7903],"class_list":["post-1928366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-commit","tag-concerned","tag-congress","tag-hormone","tag-study","tag-suicide","tag-taxpayer-funded","tag-youths"],"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\/1928366","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\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}