Her trans child died by suicide because preferred pronouns aren't mandatory.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lots of assumptions there. From the looks of it her child killed themselves despite having a supportive family and transitioning.

It’s not a good advert for affirmation and transition is it?

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

That was my observation. There's nothing in this article to indicate that the child wasn't affirmed every step of the way. She's trying to claim he wasn't transed early enough, and I don't know whose fault that would be.

She should know that suicide rarely has a singular cause. The claim that preferred pronouns and names reduce suicide by 70% strikes me as unbelievable because where was the epidemic of child suicides before we were transing kids?

She's a physician herself, possibly professionally involved in pediatric transitions and seems to desperately need her belief system to be validated. Acknowledging that perhaps hormones and surgeries aren't a solution and that maybe she failed her daughter by setting her on that path must be unthinkable.

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

Maybe, just maybe, the person had psychological comorbidities like anxiety and depression and all that good stuff, like every trans person does :>