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[–]JulienMayfair 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What bothers me most about the trans suicide narrative is that it pins the blame on people not going along with the trans narrative instead of examining the idea that gender transition often ends up not addressing or treating the underlying causes of these people's emotional distress. Thus, they end up paying the high personal cost of a transition that doesn't bring them the happiness they were promised.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Exactly. A lot of people who transition had gender dysphoria as a result of traumatic experiences, such as being molested as a child, being raised in a household with a strict adherence to gender roles, being bullied by peers, or having abuse parents. Then these transsexuals have learned that the sex change hasn’t relieved them of their trauma, and in most cases has even made it worse.

Some people with gender dysphoria have a condition like autism - some people with autism find it hard to socialise with other people, especially other people of the same sex, and some autistic people have a tendency to fixate on certain things. Some autistic people transition, thinking it will help them social better because they don’t get along with members of the same sex very well and feel they cannot live up to the expectations of their sex, only to learn that they are still unable to socialise with members of the opposite sex and struggle to live up to the expectations intended for the opposite sex. I’d say that most autistic people don’t transition at all, but they are more likely to transition than neurotypical people.

Finally, a lot of people who transition are homosexual, and feel that because they’re attracted to the same sex they were meant to be the opposite sex because they were trained to see homosexuality as wrong. They believe that transitioning would "cure" their homosexuality. So they transition, and later learn the hard way that they are still male or female as they were when they were born, and no heterosexual wants to date them, so they realise that they’ve made a huge mistake.

Regardless of the reason behind it, a sex change is not completely reversible. And sex changes involve dangerous, painful surgeries that affect the bodies in many ways and often lead to permanent disability. Very few people can transition like Blaire White, and even then, these surgeries are expensive. Many transgender people are in debt, even if they don’t regret their sex change operations, and being in debt is not a pleasant situation to be in.

[–]DimDroog 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Those surgeries should be outlawed.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t disagree with you. These surgeries are a scam.

[–]insta 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

pins the blame on people not going along with the trans narrative instead of examining the idea that gender transition

Pro tip: if they do this, compare the suicide rates to blacks. Anyone who believes in this TRA nonsense will also most likely believe that the US is a white supremacist nation and so forth. Then, you say "Hey, if blacks live a white supremacist nation with police that are just on the march to kill them at any chance they get and whites out to oppress and marginalize them wherever they can; why do they have magnitudes lower suicide rates than trans people?"

You can swap out another minority group if you want, but it just helps them get on the back foot.