Why are transgender people more likely to commit suicide?

[onlinebiker]

I have known a few trans people - a couple quite well. To the best of my knowledge - all had tried to commit suicide at least once. (Only one succeeded).

While that isn't indicative of the whole of the population - it has always made me wonder.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/p...er-adults/

According to UCLA - trans folk are 18 times more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year compared to the general population.

Is a trans person more likely to commit suicide, or is a suicidal person more likely to change gender?

I wonder as one person I know tried committing suicide before transition.....

[Porcupine]

Because of how they are mistreated.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I have known a few trans people - a couple quite well. To the best of my knowledge - all had tried to commit suicide at least once. (Only one succeeded).

While that isn't indicative of the whole of the population - it has always made me wonder.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/p...er-adults/

According to UCLA - trans folk are 18 times more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year cimpared to the general population.

Is a trans person more likely to commit suicide, or is a suicidal person more likely to change gender?

I wonder as one person I know tried committing suicide before transition.....

Did you bother to read the article you linked? The answers are right there.

Boru

[onlinebiker]

Because of how they are mistreated.

That doesn't hold.

Other groups - such as blacks - are treated poorly but do not have a disproprtionately higher rate of suicide.

[Porcupine]

Because of how they are mistreated.

That doesn't hold.

The article you linked to disagrees.

[onlinebiker]

I have known a few trans people - a couple quite well. To the best of my knowledge - all had tried to commit suicide at least once. (Only one succeeded).

While that isn't indicative of the whole of the population - it has always made me wonder.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/p...er-adults/

According to UCLA - trans folk are 18 times more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year cimpared to the general population.

Is a trans person more likely to commit suicide, or is a suicidal person more likely to change gender?

I wonder as one person I know tried committing suicide before transition.....

Did you bother to read the article you linked? The answers are right there.

Boru

So no discussion should be made.


Nice..

[Porcupine]

Other groups - such as blacks - are treated poorly but do not have a disproprtionately higher rate of suicide.

Many people are racist. Almost everybody is transphobic ... even the people who think they aren't. It's the most ubiquitious bigotry there is. People who aren't racist, sexist or homophobic are still usually transphobic. What's more, racists may hate black people but black people is rarely portrayed as a disease. To treat transgenderism as a sickness is a self-fuilfilling prophecy. Keep telling somebody that they're mentally ill when they're not and you'll project your own anxieties onto them and then be like "See, I told you so." When you proved nothing but your own intolerance and ignorance.

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Did you bother to read the article you linked? The answers are right there.

Boru

So no discussion should be made.


Nice..

Nobody said that. It's just that your ignorance is coming across as willful.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Did you bother to read the article you linked? The answers are right there.

Boru

So no discussion should be made.


Nice..

Just wondering why you would ask a question that (presumably) you already have the answer to.

Boru

[Porcupine]

I mean, why post the link but ignore the answer given? If you don't agree with the answer given then at least read and address it rather than act like it's not there.

[Brian37]

I have known a few trans people - a couple quite well. To the best of my knowledge - all had tried to commit suicide at least once. (Only one succeeded).

While that isn't indicative of the whole of the population - it has always made me wonder.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/p...er-adults/

According to UCLA - trans folk are 18 times more likely to have attempted suicide in the past year compared to the general population.

Is a trans person more likely to commit suicide, or is a suicidal person more likely to change gender?

I wonder as one person I know tried committing suicide before transition.....

It  is literally a overall societal social norm issue, regardless of topic.

If you are the minority, ANYWHERE in the world,  it is far more likely, because of the social norms of that particular society you are going to be frowned upon, and thus have a harder time in life. 

LBGT have a hard time in Islamic countries and in China and even Japan.

Yes, if you are a minority on any subject anywhere in the world, you are far more likely to have economic and social and emotional problems regardless of subject.