Why are transgender people more likely to commit suicide?

[TaraJo]

Are there trans people who just plain ol' don't have dysphoria?  I suppose, but I'm forced to question why they would transition in the first place.  If transitioning put you through some of the pain and suffering I went through, why would someone choose to do that unless they felt like there was no other way?  At very least I'm going to say that there are very real and very important differences between dysphoric and non-dysphoric trans people.

Do you know if there are people in the community who identify as transgender, not because they feel any mismatch with their sex or want to transition, but simply because they don't or wish not to identify with any gender? It would make sense if the difference between trans people with and without Gender Dysphoria revolves around choice. Transgenders who don't have a choice in the matter have GD; and individuals that identify as transgender but don't feel any mismatch don't have GD.

That does make a lot of sense.  But there's still a significant difference between dysphoric transgender people and non-dysphoric transgender people.  I think that difference is still important, especially if we're calculating suicide statistics.  If you're dysphoric, you have something internal, something inside you and your mind, that is causing you discomfort.  You can't escape it.  If you're nondysphoric, you don't have that.  I can easily see how the discomfort from dysphoria could cause someone to commit suicide.  Hell, it almost did that to me.