Posted on 06/27/2023 7:20:49 PM PDT by Morgana
CNN —
People who identify as transgender have significantly higher rates of suicide and suicide attempts compared with the rest of the population, according to a population-level study out of Denmark.
The study of more than 6.6 million people found that those who identified as trans had 7.7 times the rate of suicide attempts and 3.5 times the rate of suicide deaths than the broader Danish population.
Among the 3,759 survey participants who identified as transgender, there were 92 suicide attempts and 12 suicides between 1980 and 2021. However, the numbers are probably a significant undercount, as the researchers say the records they used do not always capture a person’s gender identity.
The authors of the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are careful to note that it has limitations. It can only count the number of suicides among people who have sought care from a hospital for gender identity-related medical issues, and it can only capture the number of trans people who applied for a legal change of gender. It does not detail what percentage of the population may be missed.
The study also does not pin down exactly why trans people face a higher suicide risk, but the researchers theorize that part of the problem may be “minority stress,” in which people are bullied, discriminated against, socially excluded or faced with general prejudice for who they are. The researchers say previous work has showed that 60% of transgender people in Denmark experienced abuse in the form of harassment or bullying, and 30% experienced physical violence. Trans people in Denmark also report that they face discrimination in their interactions with the health care system.
The researchers also note that the work may not reflect the situation in other countries.
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The actual number is 42%
EXACTLY!!!
I think the idea that massive, irreversible body mutilations will cause suicides in the future is a pretty safe bet.
It is because they are sinners and know their sin and can’t live with it.
How about that?
The researchers also note that the work may not reflect the situation in other countries.
Seems to me that eventually between not being able to reproduce for many of them and suicide the problems solves itself.....
That's what we're turning the world upside down for.
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Exactly- so it should be made illegal!
Incorrect.
The endocrine system, which effects many different systems in the body, also directs sexual development and brain chemicals.
People who experience gender dysphoria due to an endocrine defect typically also experience depression. Adrenal fatigue or adrenal excess can also cause both. Monoamine oxidase deficiency can also cause depression and is directly tied to sexual development. Most of them can be helped once correctly diagnosed.
Calling them nuts dehumanizes them.
Are there plenty of depressed kids claiming to be transgender? Yes, there are. They need help, not transitioning. The system is failing them.
I agree that the “nuts,” of course, will have high rates of suicide and other illnesses.
They should be treated at the first sign of thinking they are the opposite sex.
Teachers, Parents, Doctors and peers all participate in the madness and are direct factors in most suicides.
Latin: “Felo de.se”. = suicide or a “felony on one’s self!”
START LOCKING THEM UP& REDUCE SUICIDES!
They’re depressed because there is stress between their head and their heart.
Their head is trying to tell them that they aren’t the sex/gender they were born as, and their heart telling them that they are the sex/gender they were born as.
Then we now have society, schools, universities, doctors, and politicians telling them that they are the sex/gender that their head is telling them.
Then they take the hormones and hormone blockers that really mess with their head and you get an explosive mix of feelings, emotions, outside encouragement, and reality, mixes with screwed up hormones and what do you think will happen.
These folks need real help, they need the truth, not encouragement to follow the lies everyone else is telling them and not supporting them in their struggle. Having these folks take those hormones and try to change the unchangeable.
It just makes things worse for them.
Doesn't rejecting their sex dehumanize them?
You are correct that compassion is called for. We live in an imperfect world and something processes do not complete themselves, which results in somebody who is a hostage to their inner sef.
I understand.
What a shock! People who are mentally ill have higher rates of suicide.
Yes. Mentally ill people often have a higher suicide rate.
Bears shit in the woods.
Sun rises in East.
Any other brilliant insights.
Mentally ill, that’s why. Isn’t hard to understand.
Silence is violence. Someone near me has that sign on their lawn. Every time I pass by I say, “no, violence is violence”. Where do people come up with this s#!t.
Because they are mentally ill and should receive compassionate mental health care rather then powerful drugs and irreversible body mutilation,
True transgenderism is customarily the result of a genetic disorder. It would be like hating someone who is a hemophiliac or who was born with acromegaly. They didn’t ask for it or do anything to cause it; it is who they are and their lives are painful enough without people bashing on them.
A very tiny percentage of the population is afflicted with conditions that can manifest in gender dysphoria. For example, not all boys born with Klinefelters (XXY chromosomes) have GD. Hardly any girls with Turners (only 1 X or 1 normal and 1 damaged X) have GD. Jacobs Syndrome (XYY chromosomes) can cause sexual development issues. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia and Non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia can cause gender dysphoria.
Ergo, it is statistically impossible for all these kids to claim they are trans. Almost every time there is a true case of transgenderism, it can be tied back to an underlying medical cause.
I know, because my kid is one of them.
Believe me, my child is not happy with all the fringe groups climbing on the trans bus (drag queens are not trans, they have their own issues), people exploiting children using his condition as cover, or kids thinking a lifetime of never fitting in or feeling accepted is somehow the “latest thing.”
I get why people are pushing back on this. They are right to do so. I’m just worried that legitimately trans people are getting crushed by the agenda-driven madness of the radicals. Some of them are finally speaking out.
The recent explosive growth in “gender dysphoria” cases has nothing to do with those legitimate pathologies, and I don’t think anyone with medical knowledge actually believes it does.
It’s all a play for easy money by very cynical practitioners, hospital administrators, and medical suppliers, particularly pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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