Why are transgender people more likely to commit suicide?

[Porcupine]

You are accepting opinion as data.

The "why" of suicide is always unknowable.

You can draw guesses based on observation and interrogation - but you don't ever know if you have drawn the right conclusion.

people too.  People who aren't bigoted about other things are still often bigoted about transpeople. Transphobia is so widespread it's ridiculous.

If you think that statistical data is mere opinion then what is stopping you from making the same mistake with regards to other statistical data? Your own intolerance not wanting to see the truth, I reckon.

What's more---if you tell yourself it's "always unknowable" then you're shutting yourself off without being open to empirical data. Totally irrational. And I think your irrationality is clearly motivated by emotion rather than reason.

Nobody is suggesting transphobia is not widespread.

That does not mean that being discriminated against is the reason for the higher suicide rate.

Talk about missing the point.

Your mind is clearly not open to reason yet. I give up. Hopefully someday somebody else will manage to penetrate. I am done investing mental energy on you.