NBC News reported about a research study the Utah state legislature commissioned to prove that gender-affirming health care was harmful for children and teens. The study was commissioned in a 2023 Utah law that banned gender-affirming care. MAGA legislators believed that gender-affirming care was harmful and they were gonna prove it. The study, about 1,000 pages was published on May 19, 2025 on the Utah state legislature's website. The bottom line from the report: Gender-affirming care was generally helpful, not harmful.
Utah's Department of Health and Human Services and experts from the state's leading health organizations concluded from a study of thousands of transgender people that gender-affirming care generated "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
"Patients that were seen at the gender clinic before the age of 18 had a lower risk of suicide compared to those referred as an adult" according to the study. "When left untreated, individuals with gender dysphoria may experience psychological and social harms."
The agency is not taking a position on whether lawmakers should lift the statewide ban on hormone therapy and surgeries for minors. But it reminded lawmakers that they had intended for the prohibition to be temporary until the state could conduct its own research.
Well, now the state has conducted its own research. I asked Pxy to find a link to the study, so I could see it for myself. Pxy gave me this link: https://le.utah.gov/publications/reports/2025/DRRC_Gender_Affirming_Care_Report.pdf. The study is entitled Utah Legislature: Gender-Affirming Care Study Report. The study was posted on the legislature's website as part of the state’s compliance with SB16 (2023), Utah's gender-affirming ban law.
Clicking on that link, led to this:
The study was not listed among the first 100 documents of the 321,162 in the database. I could not find the study.
Straight Arrow News reports: "Utah lawmakers stand by gender care ban after study refutes reasoning -- Study findings: Two years after Utah banned gender-affirming care for minors, the state’s health department released a study finding positive mental health and body image outcomes linked to such treatments. .... What do GOP Utah lawmakers say? The House sponsor of Utah’s 2023 ban and the current chair of the health committee said they have no plans to lift the restriction on gender-affirming care. In a joint statement to The Associated Press, Republican Reps. Katy Hall and Bridger Bolinder said, “Simply put, the science isn’t there, the risks are real, and the public is with us.” "
Q: Is this exemplary of how MAGA elites will treat inconvenient science going forward, i.e., hiding it, denying it and simply blowing off scientific evidence when it is inconvenient to MAGA dogma?