Posted on 08/18/2015 11:48:26 AM PDT by wagglebee
August 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – People who suffer from gender confusion are encouraged by the current cultural climate to "be themselves," meaning reject the gender they were born with.
"Transgender" teens are taught that what they feel is who they are and that to be happy and fulfilled, they must become the opposite sex. When Bruce Jenner decided to publicly look like a woman, he was supported by the mass media. Even the president of the United States, when Jenner decided to have castration surgery, applauded him as a "courageous" hero.
But studies repeatedly show that "transgender" people who seek to become the opposite sex are in fact not happy or fulfilled. In fact, a life-or-death internal war is continually going on within, to the degree that many, if not most, seek to end their lives.
That's what the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute found when the foundation analyzed results from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. The numbers of suicide attempts are heartbreaking.
Over 41 percent of active "transgender" people try to kill themselves. That's ten times the average 4.6 percent suicide attempt rate.
And this study isn't the only one proving that those who seek to live as if they were the opposite sex are, in fact, killing themselves. Over a dozen other surveys worldwide have found the same alarmingly high suicide rates.
A national survey of more than 6,500 transgender people asked the question "Have you tried to commit suicide?" Forty-one percent answered, "Yes."
"Chronically high stress levels," "anxiety," and "depression" are most commonly reported among active transgender people. Self-harm by cutting is often reported as well.
The suicide hotline for them, Trans Lifeline, handled more than 20,000 calls in its first nine months of operation alone. Greta Gustava Martela, a lesbian who founded the hotline, summarizes, "With 41% attempting suicide, you have to assume something's just not working for transgender folks."
The mainstream media attributes the exploding transgender suicide rate to outside influences, such as peer and parental rejection, but does not consider the transgender person's tragic internal battle as intrinsic to living a psychological dichotomy.
The facts speak otherwise. The University of Birmingham's Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF) conducted a medical review that found that there is no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of transsexuals. In fact, many transsexuals remain severely internally distressed and suicidal after the operation.
Chris Hyde, the director of ARIF, explained, "A large number of people who have [sex change] surgery remain traumatized – often to the point of committing suicide."
And yet the effort to ignore the suicidal facts and teach even grade school children that transgender people are fulfilling their "true" selves continues. As Stella Morabito of The Federalist writes, "The [transgender] guy isn't allowed to talk about his regret. Not openly. The transgender lobby actively polices and suppresses discussion of sex-change regret."
Some transgender patients have said they realized, too late, that sex change operations did not live up to their promise. Alan Finch explains, "You fundamentally can't change sex. ... The surgery doesn't alter you genetically. It's genital mutilation[.] ... It's all been a terrible misadventure[.] ... The analogy I use about giving surgery to someone desperate to change sex is it's a bit like offering liposuction to an anorexic."
Tennis champion Renée Richards, who went from male to "female" in the '70s, wrote, "I would have been better off staying the way I was – a totally intact person[.] ... I don't want anyone to hold me out as an example to follow[.] ... I get a lot of letters from people who are considering having this operation ... and I discourage them all."
I don’t get it. Why would any man, privileged to wear COMFORTABLE flat shoes & NO BRA wish to inflict upon himself the discomfort & awkwardness of 6” high heels, push-up whale boned brassieres & tight girdles? It’s beyond me.
It is interesting that a such a “disease” that requires such drastic mutilation, has not been researched using post-millennial tools and techniques. When someone is “diagnosed” as transgender where are the CAT scans, MRIs, blood work, DNA work and other diagnostic techniques that would search for biological causation? None.
Where are the psychological diagnostic instruments that would confirm or deny? None.
Where are the trials of antipsychotics, antianxiety agents and psychotherapy to test the contents of the patient’s beliefs? None.
Where is the research about diagnostic decisions trees that include biological paradigms? None.
Instead we are told that the patient makes the diagnosis. Because they have felt like the opposite sex from their DNA since they can remember. Not accounting for the fact that in delusional processes, the past is incorporated in the delusions i.e.: when I treat the secretary who thinks she is the Queen of England, although her delusional onset may be recent (within a matter of months or days, at times) her delusions will include memories of being a child-queen, for acute delusional processes are often seamless.
Parents who arrive at schools and clinics with children dressed and raised as their DNA opposites are hailed as brave instead of studied as classic cases of Munchhausen by Proxy where parents seek attention by making up and believing the child is different, ill or diseased and providing symptoms and evidence to back the parent’s need.
I thought Jenner chose not to have the surgery? Just the hormone injections, and outer appearance changes?
What these poor souls need is therapy, not surgery.
Most people choose not to have the genital surgery because it does not work.
see post 22
True, but many states are passing laws making such therapy for these and homosexuals illegal...
Families are being prevented from seeking treatment for their loved ones.
Just awful! How can we help?
Gender confusion is a treatable mental disorder. Catering to a clearly mentally ill person does not result in a cure.
Reminds me of the creepy doctor who was a Lopitoffme patient and took over the practice for a Doctor in Trinidad Colorado who performed such mutilations. I think it left later for SF. don’t remember names.
I know a guy who had the “operation”. If he commits suicide, I am not going to be surprised.
He can change his body through surgery and hormones, but he will always be a man. An XY chromosome combination makes that an undeniable fact.
Thank you. Excellent post.
It’s tragic.
Johns Hopkins University Hospital refuses to perform “sex-reassignment” surgery because it determined that the mental-health outcomes of those who had the surgery were not significantly different than the outcomes of those who decided not to have it.
I’ve known 2 transgenders, surgery and all. One seems to be well adjusted. The second committed suicide within a year or so of the surgery. So, my personal experience is 50%.
There was a 3rd person but he had a number of medical issues and couldn’t be operated on. He just came to work from time to time in a dress. A rather nice fellow in a lot of ways but really messed up.
The transgender suicide epidemic: is accepting their confusion really the answer?
Perhaps accepting their suicides is the answer.
yes, they must be loved, worshipped, and put in charge of everything everywhere all the time to show we love them and are not bigots; in fact, we can oly hope and pray that our children and forebears and backbears and middle bears will all be transgendere by Planned Transgender Obamadare, every day, in every way, for the betterment of all mankind, and go-speed john glenn.....
“Sex Change” Surgery: What Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, and You Should Know: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/04/14905/
I Was a Transgender Woman (a very sad story of abuse): http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/04/14688/
We obviously have to make everybody transgender so that we all can be happy and nobody picks on the transgenders because we all will be the same.
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