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[–]whateverbeaver 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

https://www.hrc.org/news/bisexual-health-awareness-month-mental-health-in-the-bisexual-community

40 vs 25 percent suicide stat. Given it’s HRC and the top result on google, given more digging I’m sure you could find even worse, less biased stats.

Edit: For the sake of a hypothetical, lets say this is “the” stat, the only one, the correct one—IMO, the 15% margin are the rollercoaster bis. The rest is from social discrimination, which for bis is really just a different kind of homophobia :)

Sorry to reedit this a hundred times lol, but just look at the stupidity of the HRC in saying the mislabeling is coming from the others—we all know it is they who mislabel themselves.

[–]whateverbeaver 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I correct myself on the trans stat, the Dutch corrected the Swedes lmao. Looks like with transition or without it suicide is relatively the same at 3-4x higher for trans than general pop

https://genderanalysis.net/2020/06/swedish-study-meet-the-dutch-study-suicide-rates-among-trans-people-are-elevated-but-not-by-20-times/

[–]homosomes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some of the links that HRC provided were broken (mostly links to their own site). The links leading to other sites do provide support for bisexuals experiencing higher rates of mental illness/suicide attempts though. Thank you for sharing sources!

[–]whateverbeaver 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey np! And obvi my opinion as to why is just conjecture. More evidence is needed methinks :)