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[–]divingrightintowork[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

So I don't think that analogy quite holds.

I feel a better analogy would be if I, a woman, married another woman, and we lived together w/e for 15 years. I decide I'm straight, break up with her, marry a man, have kids, etc. and someone does an expose about my... 15 years as a lesbian? Or maybe vice versa, I was married to a man for 15 years, had some kids, got married to a woman, and people threatened my heterosexual history? Either way, seems kind of weird no? Dr. V lived 'as a man' for a very, very long time. I don't believe in history erasure.

What would you say if I had claimed I was a German citizen, but actually was just an American my whole life? Esp if I built a brand on "being German" ?

Also how many of those TWXNs had other comorbidities, and what was the suicide attempt rate of students with same conditions who were otherwise not-trans? (I'm guessing the study doesn't touch that).

[–]SnowAssMan 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I totally see what you're saying & would likely agree with you. I just didn't take the time to read the original article.

and what was the suicide attempt rate of students with same conditions who were otherwise not-trans?

Yes! This! I wish this information existed. These kinds of stats should be comparing like with like, that way they'd likely find that it's non-conformity that is the commonality within populations most susceptible to suicide ideation.

[–]divingrightintowork[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"people with mental illnesses have elevated rates of suicide, oh and also trans people because that's not a mental illness, oh also veterinarians off theirselves like whoa. There's an epidemic of veterinarian suicides."