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   More than a dozen House and Senate Republicans have penned a letter to the   
   director of the National Institutes of Health demanding answers over a   
   study it funded titled "Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth   
   after 2 Years of Hormones," during which "two young people tragically died   
   by suicide."   
      
   The message to Dr. Lawrence Tabak, co-signed by Senators Marco Rubio and   
   Rand Paul and Reps. Josh Breechen, Lauren Boebert and Andy Biggs, among   
   others, highlights "grave concerns" from the lawmakers over the study in   
   which researchers examined 315 subjects  "between the ages of 12 and 20   
   who identify as transgender and were given cross-sex hormones," 240 of   
   whom were minors.   
      
   "During this study, two young people died by suicide and eleven reported   
   suicidal ideation," the letter read. "Rather than shutting the study down   
   after such serious adverse events, the researchers published their paper,   
   concluding that the study was a success because cross-sex hormones had   
   altered subjects’ physical appearance and improved psychosocial   
   functioning."   
      
   The researchers have been "in search of an agenda and justifying an   
   agenda, they're not really about children’s safety as we've seen from the   
   suicides," North Carolina Republican Sen. Ted Budd, who co-led the GOP   
   letter, told Fox News. He described the study as "absolutely tragic."   
      
   GOP lawmakers demand answers on two deaths in trans youth studyVideo   
   A summary published by the New England Journal of Medicine read,   
   "Participants were enrolled in a four-site prospective, observational   
   study of physical and psychosocial outcomes. "   
      
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   NIH Director Dr. Lawrence Tabak   
   Acting Director of the National Institutes Of Health Dr. Lawrence Tabak   
   testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health   
   and Human Services and Education about the NIH FY2024 Budgey on Capitol   
   Hill on May 4. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, File)   
      
   "Participants completed the Transgender Congruence Scale, the Beck   
   Depression Inventory–II, the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale   
   (Second Edition), and the Positive Affect and Life Satisfaction measures   
   from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Toolbox Emotion Battery at   
   baseline and at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months after gender-affirming hormones   
   initiation," it said.   
      
   "During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life   
   satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased,"   
   the summary concluded. "Increases in appearance congruence were associated   
   with concurrent increases in positive affect and life satisfaction and   
   decreases in depression and anxiety symptoms. The most common adverse   
   event was suicidal ideation (in 11 participants [3.5%]); death by suicide   
   occurred in 2 participants."   
      
   WYOMING SORORITY SISTERS SPEAK OUT AFTER LAWSUIT LAUNCHED OVER TRANSGENDER   
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   Marco Rubio   
   Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, is among those who co-   
   signed the Republicans' letter. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images,   
   File)   
      
   But, the Republicans argued that "the four clinics and some of the   
   researchers who conducted this experiment are outspoken advocates for   
   conducting gender transition interventions on children."   
      
   "In a video it later removed from its YouTube channel, Boston Children’s   
   Hospital, one of the clinics involved, went as far as to claim that   
   children can know their gender identity ‘from the womb,’" the letter read.   
      
   Boston Children's Hospital   
   The Republicans named Boston Children's Hospital as one of the clinics   
   that participated in the study. (Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty   
   Images, File)   
      
   "Despite glaring shortfalls, this government-funded research is already   
   being used to further the fallacy that chemically transitioning children   
      
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