Posted on 06/29/2023 5:57:49 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
As published yesterday in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association
According to recent research, transgender people are significantly more likely to commit suicide than their peers.
Using Denmark's centralized data repository, the new study discovered that the rate at which transgender people attempted suicide is 770% higher than non-transgender people. Transgender people also actually died as a result of the suicide attempts at a 350% higher level than non-transgender persons.
Dr. Morten Frisch, a sexual health epidemiologist at the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen and co-author of the study, told The New York Times, “This is beyond doubt a huge problem that needs to be looked at,” Suicide word cloud
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His team identified nearly 3,800 transgender individuals in Denmark using hospital records and applications for legal gender changes in order to investigate the issue. between the years 1980 and 2021. The actual rates of death and suicide are most probably much higher. The United States and Denmark have comparable suicide rates, so the findings may also apply to the United States, as noted by the researchers.
"These surveys tend to include much broader swaths of trans individuals, and we cannot be as certain that our results are equally problematic for the broader group," said Frisch.
In other countries, such as the United States, where transgender people and others have been targeted by laws restricting bathroom access, gender-related medical care, and drag performances, the findings may indicate an even higher risk of suicide among LGBTQ individuals. The Times quoted Ann Haas, an emeritus professor at the City University of New York who has studied suicide risk among LGBTQ persons for two decades, as saying, "This offers a stark rebuttal to some of those political arguments suggesting that suicide risk in these groups is exaggerated."
The Danish study also found that there was a 600% higher rate of mental illness amongst transgender individuals compared to non-transgender individuals.
“Trans people face widespread poverty, widespread discrimination, they’re more likely to experience homelessness, they’re overrepresented in our nation’s prison system, our nation’s foster care system,” Gillian Branstetter, the communications strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union focusing on transgender rights, stated to the Times. “That material lack has very real consequences on their lives, up to and including early deaths.”
The findings appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association on June 27.
This story first published in Patriot Sentinel.
The mental illness rate to me is not surprising as it is my belief that all types of identity dysphoria are related mental illness issues.
“I’m not famous for my insight and deep thinking on the homo issue.”
I know just enough to get myself in trouble with the pro-homo wokeista left. But.. I just can’t seem to be able to force myself to care....lol. All I know is ....there needs to be a mass movement or uprising against this demonic activity that the Democrats are spreading. Will there be? I doubt it.
We already know these people are mentally ill. What is lacking are lockups with padded walls and strong men with white coats and strait jackets. The irretrievably insane must be restrained, medicated and possibly lobotomized.
I say this as a libertarian.
The only way to solve there problem is YESHUA.
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If the sexual weirdo community wasn’t such bullies I could feel concern for these folks. But they are bullies and that’s become unforgivable....
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