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Today, more damning evidence that gender-affirming care is actually kind of the opposite of life-saving.

Mayor Pete finally visits Ohio and it doesn't go well.

And Kyle Rittenhouse is sued by the man who admitted he pursued Kyle with a gun.

We've got all of that in more coming up, but it all starts right now.

Welcome to the News and White Matters.

I am Sarah Gonzalez.

And a new study from Mercy Catholic Hospital in Pennsylvania shows that trans patients who undergo hormone therapy are up to seven times more likely to have a stroke than those who aren't prescribed hormones,

six times more likely to have a heart attack, and five times more likely to develop a pulmonary embolism, which comes with a significant rate of fatality.

That's not all.

The study also showed that people taking hormone replacement therapy had significantly higher rates of hypothyroidism and substance abuse disorder.

And this is, of course, on top of the studies that have existed for years showing that transgender people using hormone treatments are more likely to develop certain cancers, more likely to have liver damage, blood pressure, and blood clotting issues.

But the potential risks of taking hormone therapy is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the dangers of enabling mental illness.

Because once these people go under the knife and mutilate themselves, women chopping off their breasts.

Men cutting off their penises, their unhappiness with themselves isn't cured.

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