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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It would be a pity, and vanishingly unlikely.

Do you feel bad now, that lives are being saved and mental states improved by transitioning, for advocating against it?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Lives are not being saved by transitioning.

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

How come they are in the UK?

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/MHRJ-05-2014-0015/full/html

The study revealed high rates of suicidal ideation (84 per cent lifetime prevalence) and attempted suicide (48 per cent lifetime prevalence) within this sample. A supportive environment for social transition and timely access to gender reassignment, for those who required it, emerged as key protective factors.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If social transition is what's most important to these people then they are just confused by internalized sexism. This clouds all the data about real transitioning.

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

If social transition is what's most important to these people then they are just confused by internalized sexism.

Agreed. But it's not. [A]nd timely access to gender reassignment