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Half of transgender male teens have attempted suicide, study finds
NBC "News" ^
| September 13, 2018
| by Reuters
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 dont 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: genderiddisorder; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; mentallyill; perverts; psychiatry; suicide; teens
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
That’s a shame. They need real help. Real politically incorrect help.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:31:20 AM PDT
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DannyTN
To: Oldeconomybuyer
That’s a shame. They need real help. Real politically incorrect help.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:31:20 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’ve heard about this. It seems that the liberals are blaming our allegedly oppressive bigoted society, bigotry against people with gender dysphoria, for suicidal tendencies.
They don’t think there are any issues inherent with someone thinking they’re a woman trapped in a man’s body and all that. Instead, they blame society for being intolerant and hateful towards such people.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
All you have to do is ONE thing and you still screw it up?
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:33:22 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
aaaaand thqat’s why it used to be called a MENTAL ILLNESS until liberals normalized it as nothing more benign than a lifestyle choice- Liberals should be held accountable for endangering the lives of teens by encouraging such mental illness-
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:33:55 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:33:56 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Rats, RINO's and O-Tips. They all want Sessions to stay.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Crazy people do crazy things.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:35:10 AM PDT
by
KyCats
To: Dilbert San Diego
“transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth”
More than a little convoluted, but at least I know who they are talking about. Often I don’t even know if they mean boys who think they are girls or girls who think they are boys.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:35:49 AM PDT
by
conejo99
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:37:59 AM PDT
by
Heartlander
(Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
That’s a start - but they can do better.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:38:24 AM PDT
by
sipow
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Because Trannys are mentally ill.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
NO ONE can honestly say they love someone and encourage this kind of mental illness.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:41:58 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
their sex assigned at birthNot for nothing - what a STUPID phrase.
To: Responsibility2nd
Suicide is also common for males who have had sexual change surgeries, because their problem is mental not physical to begin with. After the initial adjustment and false sense of accomplishing what they wanted they soon discover what really ails them isn’t fixed..
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:46:38 AM PDT
by
caww
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Roughly half of transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth have attempted suicide at least once Penis envy?
But I love their phraseology - "assigned a female gender at birth" = "born a girl".
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:46:48 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: Jim Noble
exactly, if their sex can be assigne4d at birth, why not their species kind? I want to be a walrus-
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:48:37 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: vpintheak
Today it’s a “fashionable trend” that Hollywood of course pushes....who for the most part are sexual deviants themselves and why it will always be a cesspool of filth.
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:49:35 AM PDT
by
caww
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Roughly half of transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth... These articles are so hard to parse now. I assumed by Transgender male teens they meant biological males who see themselves as girls. But turns out that's wrong. they are males who were "assigned" the gender of female by some stupid bureaucrat. Also known as teenage girls with mental illness issues. Why didn't they just say that?
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:49:51 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/13/2018 11:52:48 AM PDT
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max americana
(Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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