Conservatives: Medical transition is dangerous and causes bone disease!
Liberals: Transition is proven to be medically safe!
Actual scientific papers: Trans people have weaker bones BEFORE any treatment happens at all. No one knows why. We should probably, like, figure that out or something.
(Citations:
"Low bone mass is prevalent in male-to-female transsexual persons before the start of cross-sex hormonal therapy and gonadectomy", figure 1, page 4:
Adolescent trans women have average bone density Z-scores of -0.44 SD, -0.77 SD, -0.93 SD, -0.66 SD (depending on metric used) *before* treatment, Table 2:
Conservatives: Medical transition is dangerous and causes bone disease!
Liberals: Transition is proven to be medically safe!
Actual scientific papers: Trans people have weaker bones BEFORE any treatment happens at all. No one knows why. We should probably, like, figure that out or something.
(Citations:
"Low bone mass is prevalent in male-to-female transsexual persons before the start of cross-sex hormonal therapy and gonadectomy", figure 1, page 4:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.bone.2013.01.039
Adolescent trans women have average bone density Z-scores of -0.44 SD, -0.77 SD, -0.93 SD, -0.66 SD (depending on metric used) *before* treatment, Table 2:
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/100/2/E270/2814818
Z-scores of -0.71 SD, -0.2 SD in young adolescents, and -0.44 SD, -1.18 SD in older adolescents at baseline, Table 2:
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.bone.2016.11.008
Adult trans women have Z-scores of -0.93 SD, -0.58 SD, -0.73 SD before starting HRT, Table 1:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jbmr.3612)
You'll like part 2B of this :)