Why are transgender people more likely to commit suicide?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Respondents who experienced family rejection were also more likely to report attempting suicide.

And that's another reason why the analogy with black people fails. Black children with black parents are unlikely to be told they're unnatural and that there is something wrong with them for being black when their parents are black too.

I think these may go a long way towards explaining why other discriminated-against groups don't have as high a suicide rate as transgendered people: black people aren't terribly likely to be rejected by their families for being black, for instance.  In addition, the black community in the US is much, MUCH larger than the transgender community.  There's much more likely to be support for someone feeling discriminated against.

Boru