This increase in suicide rates in states where it is easier for minors to access puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones increased at almost the same time, and to the same degree, as those interventions became available. Using Google Trends results for the terms associated with those medical interventions as a proxy for their availability [emphasis mine] shows that increased suicide rates in states with easier access almost perfectly track the prevalence of those terms. (Compare Charts 1 and 3.)

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