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[–][deleted] 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

While children dealing with gender identity are at increased risk for depression and suicide, there is not an indication for a psychiatric evaluation at this point.

Telling a child that they are in the wrong body and they have to either stop doing the things they like or transition to the other gender seems like it would be a cause for depression and suicide to me.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 14 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

No no no, the only thing that causes the increased rates of depression and suicide in trans communities is the transphobia they face, there's nothing else at all, no other patterns that could possibly cause depression in trans people. Not the hormones ruining their bodies, not the fact that they've been forced to betray their identity and build a new on that they can never actually be, not the fact they're in a cult, it's all the transphobia.