Why are transgender people more likely to commit suicide?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Transphobia is the biggest factor and no comparing them to blacks is stupid as it's not THE SAME kind of mistreatment

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And before anyone says "maybe you should try and treat the dysphoria without having to give into their deluded ideas of gender; you don't give someone who thinks they're Napoleon complete control over continental Europe" I seriously have to ask: if that actually worked, don't you think mental health professionals would be doing that already? You can argue that trans people have the APA by the balls and are trying to force the medical community to fit the science to their ideas, but the Trans community has only had any sort of pull for the past couple years, and solutions that revolve around making their bodies match the gender they believe is theirs has been the default for DECADES.

Another problem with that logic is Trans has already been tested as psychosis and it doesn't pass the clinical definition and the best treatment we have for gender dyspohria we have is gender affirmation and transition . I split Dysphoria from Trans because they are not inherently the same .

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Two disclaimers: There was a lot of statistical information to digest so I only got the gist of the article. And I only read a few of the comments here. If I misread something in the article I'll correct it when I'm home.

The proper way to test whether or not discrimination leads to higher suicide rates in the trans community, would be to compare them to another community that faces equal discrimination. Presumably the non-trans members of the LGBT community. Comparing them to the general population is uninformative.

The article listed many ways in which discrimination and lack of support leads to suicide ideation, etc., within the community. However, one bit of data that doesn't quiet fit for me is that these rates go down for those that underwent hormone therapy or surgery. And back up for those that transitioned back to their original sex.

This is perhaps the only bit of data that makes me wonder if there is something unique about transgenders that other discriminated groups do not face. I base this on the assumption that transsexuals face more discrimination than other transgenders. Given that it is typically the appearance of being transexual that draws the most attention. Yet their rates go down after transitioning.

My theory would be that the transgender community faces higher suicide rates than other groups, because of the dysphoria they often experience. The feeling that you don't belong in your own body and are trapped in the wrong sex is bound to lead to depression and suicidal thoughts even in a world without discrimination.

This assumes all groups will manifest mistreatment the same . Your last sentence has the issue of automatically conflating Trans with dysphoria these are distinct and would not explain trans who commit suicide without dysphoria

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Unfortunately, given that it’s still legal in many states to discriminate against trans people, it’s kind of hard to find a group that gets an equal amount of discrimination.

If such is the case there should be data to confirm it. And if there's data that discrimination is not equal between the groups you can still do within-subjects and between-subject analysis to see how much discrimination correlates with suicide for each group.

My prediction is that homophobia and transphobia are about the same. (And not because I have a textbook on the psychology of predjudice and that's what it says lol)

Yes as in both are massive