In the article, they only count 3 minors that have committed suicide since the ban, because they put additional qualifiers like that they had to already be on a specific treatment plan in order to count.

Your preliminary numbers already destroy their argument, which is kind of my point.

Except they also say “The evidence on suicide risk in children and young people with gender dysphoria is generally poor.”

That’s not debunking. That’s denial of the problem.

“We only saw a small rise, so until statistically significant numbers of children kill themselves, the brutality will continue.”

Why is “suicide” the metric for healthcare to begin with? Imagine if dentists acted like this. “No one committed suicide from not receiving a root canal in the last 3 years, so we’ve determined them to be medically unnecessary.”