Posted on 04/26/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
A whopping 41% of people who are transgender or gender-nonconforming have attempted suicide sometime in their lives, nearly nine times the national average, according to a sweeping survey released three years ago.
In a new study released Tuesday, researchers dug deeper into that number, analyzing the results of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey to examine what puts transgender people at such “exceptionally high” risk.
Researchers from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law found that the risk of attempting suicide was especially severe for transgender or gender nonconforming people who had suffered discrimination or violence, such as being physically or sexually assaulted at work or school.
Among transgender people who became homeless because of bias against their gender identity, 69% said they had tried to kill themselves. Out of those who had been turned away by a doctor because they were transgender or gender-nonconforming, 60% had attempted suicide sometime in their lives, the survey found.
BINGO
California requires that insurance pay for infertility treatments for homosexuals, because they don’t conceive children naturally. It seems like the same logic would cover Bruce Jenner if he wanted to have a baby. So what if he’s actually male and in his 60s? That’s no excuse for denying him the experience of motherhood.
That’s why I love South Park, they have a way of demonstrating absurdity by being absurd, in way that Rush Limbaugh can learn from.
Particularly with his "conservative Republican" comment.
"Bruce Jenner can't possibly be a conservative Republican. He's transgendered."
"He's not really a conservative Republican. He just thinks he is."
He's throwing everything back in their faces. I get the feeling the Jenner has just punked everyone on the left, opening up their absurdities for the whole world to see.
Prescribing the LIBERAL LEFT to read it would be similar to trying to train a BRICK.
Too bad the kids have to deal with the fall-out from this—no matter they really think, they will feel under pressure to act like they “tolerate” (the left’s definition) this.
I just hope, for his sake, that whenever he's done with the cutting and sculpting, with the chemical reformulation of his body and mind, and with the self-absorption and obsession he has with his sex, that after all he has put himself through he is able to deal with the coming realization that he is still not a woman ... and that he never will be.
LOL... My GSD would be very upset.
He’s always been a woman, according to him. The answer should be “yes” if we are going to be consistent here.
It’s tragic for that woman he killed in that car accident....Has everybody forgotten about that?
You don’t think that’s what he means when he says, “I’m a woman?”
Same here. I only feel bad for him insofar as society has made it possible for these people to play out their insanity in public and have it accepted instead of treated.
I’m just talking about his “sex change” ... pointing out that it is a tragedy for him.
Well forgive me if I don’t give a frog’s fat a$$ what’s “tragic” for him......Tragic is what happened to that woman he killed.
Part of the “defining-down” of what a conservative is, just like the left has already done to “Christianity”, they’re currently at work on “evangelical”.
“because of bias against their gender identity”? I want to see proof that that is specifically why they tried to kill themselves, and not because they think they’re incurably insane.
Seriously? Wow. I didn’t catch that thread and will try to find that one. It doesn’t surprise me as i have caught a couple of homo-loving Freepers before. They come out of the woodwork when the thread becomes really interesting...
Even the left knows that that’s ridiculous. That’s just cover for their redistribution agenda.
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