(April 11, 2016 at 4:36 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(April 11, 2016 at 4:28 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Transitioning may remove the feelings of gender-dysphoria. Sex reassignment is still not effective at reducing the suicide rates or other psychological problems, like substance abuse, of trans-gendered people. There are deeper issues at play.
Maybe the unchanging suicide rate has to do with being ostracized by society; with being shamed and ridiculed and made to feel defective and inadequate by binary-minded individuals who refuse to accept that gender identity and sexual preference fall onto a spectrum rather then in one of two immutable columns. But, maybe not.
Suicide is not about a societal consensus. Meaning once you reach a certain level of disapproval one just kills themselves. Suicide is about personal contentment and whether or not you can find it with who or what you are. If their is a high suicide rate in a given segment of the community then in that segment their is a very high self dissatisfaction rate for whatever reason.
Disapproval for how society judges you is met with 'jihad/school or work place violence' not self harm.
