(July 25, 2020 at 2:53 pm)Shell B Wrote: My guess is that it's damn hard to live in a body that feels foreign in some ways. It costs a lot of money to transition, and it's still not a "perfect" process. Families often disown trans members. It's hard to find a job when you don't necessarily "look" the gender you dress/identify as, etc. It's not an easy life on any level, whether you remain your birth gender or your transition. Given these hardships, I'm not at all surprised there is a high suicide rate among trans people. The better question is how do we fix it.
I think that most transgender individuals do not undergo sexual reassignment surgery. I do not feel that my body "is foreign"; I just view myself as being a "woman with a penis" (blush). Sorry to be explicit, but, I think that's how most of us look at things.