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Posted on 09/13/2018 11:26:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Transgender adolescents are far more likely to attempt suicide than teens whose identity matches their sex assigned at birth, and trans male youth are especially at risk, a U.S. study suggests.
Roughly half of transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth have attempted suicide at least once, the study found. And 42 percent of adolescents who don’t identify exclusively as male or female have at least one prior suicide attempt.
About 30 percent of trans female teens - who identify as female but have birth certificates that label them as male - have tried suicide at least once, as have 28 percent of adolescents who are questioning their gender identity, the study also found.
In contrast to all of these groups of transgender teens, just 18 percent of females and 10 percent of males who are cisgender — meaning their gender identity matches what it says on their birth certificate — have attempted suicide.
“Our findings are startling,” said study leader Russell Toomey of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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messed up teen girls asking where is the rest of me!?
Severe mental illness is correlated to an increased risk of suicide.
Untreated mental illness is bad. Treating it in a way that doesn’t solve the underlying issue makes it worse.
Most likely the half that can’t afford the psychiatric help they so desperately need.
This tells me that after all the physical and chemical modifications, the transgendered male to female finds out that without the real deal, sex went out with the trash.
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More evidence that T is a mental illness that should be treated by Phychs and Rx drugs.
Progressives have spent the last half century demonizing males and yet there’s an apparent social contagion of teen girls being convinced that they’re boys.
What an effed up irrational, utterly devoid of logic generation we have coming up. You thought millennials were bad, hoo boy take a gander at this lot.
Only half? They are ALL mentally ill. They should be CURED not celebrated.
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