State bans on sex-rejecting procedures for minors did not raise completed teen suicide rates in this CDC-based analysis.
On 17 September 2026, Do No Harm published a paper by Jay Greene and Ian Kingsbury on state bans and teen suicide rates. They compared CDC completed-suicide mortality for teens with U.S. states whose bans on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors had taken effect.
They ran three models. In this report, there was no statistically significant rise in teen suicide rates after those bans.
That is a Do No Harm report analyzing CDC data. It is not a randomized trial. It does not prove bans lower suicide deaths. Completed-suicide counts are not the same as attempts or ideation. The talking point that children will kill themselves unless they get blockers and hormones still has no supporting data.
Read the paper. The suicide-myths chart is on Get the Facts.
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