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2023-07-03 00:12:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4FF0243EDC26078A446E18A67881E423A7F14D558C59060F0E718037DAC176A5
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This tweet presents coming out as a way to combat suicide in transgender people. That is proven to be false. “Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers.” https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work-here-the-evidence
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