On FR, we comment about how perverse and self-defeating this is for most transgenders. Here's some stats which show it might be a self-limiting phenomenon.
It is mental illness. A male says he was born into the wrong body because he “feels” like a woman. How the heck does he know how a woman feels? He doesn’t. He is either afraid of performing in the capacity of a male, or has homosexual desires and can’t admit he’s a fag, so he must be “transgendered”. Don’t humor these people. This won’t end well.
Co-morbidity with other forms of mental illness?
I agree that this phenom is being encouraged; and an impartial outsider has to wonder:
If there is a choice between saying to an adolescent “Wow, you’ve really discovered something incredibly unique about yourself and you have my full support working through this incredibly awesome transformation” versus “why don’t you sit with this for a while, uncomfortable as it may be, many many people experience these kinds of feelings and ALL kids going through hormone onrush go through flaming insanity” what would the differential results be?
I am absolutely sure that many many teens have this fairly well known characteristic when they are young, said simply, THEY MAKE CRAPPY CHOICES. We all do. We all did.
Encouraging individual lunacy leads to general madness.
Female to male adolescents reported the highest rate of attempted suicide (50.8%), followed by adolescents who identified as not exclusively male or female (41.8%), male to female adolescents (29.9%), questioning adolescents (27.9%).
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Two things:
It appears they are comparing Trans attempted suicides rates to non-gender issue people’s completed suicides rates.
Second: Most of the attempted suicides in teens are in people with personality disorders. Many of the personality disordered teens are now claiming that they are transgender. So it concentrates the statistic.
Dealing with more and more of these people in the ER I can tell you ever one has multiple psychiatric problems in addition to their gender confusion.
I’m convinced that their transgenderism is a futile attempt to deal with their REAL psychiatric issues. And when their problems remain after their switch, they really go off the deep end.
Compare this with yesterday’s story about more Yale students identify as LGBTQXYZ than conservative or Christian.................
well? you encourage young kids, who are by nature sexually confused, to broadcast to the world that they are deviants, and there is a social cost to that.
“hey! look at me! i’m perverse!”
then the poor kid, who has enough troubles, experiences a social pushback...
what do you expect?
Gender dysphoria in post-adolescents is very real, but it's also rare. What is happening is not an epidemic of this malady but its deliberate creation, and the people doing it are profoundly selfish and often overtly malicious, promoting an educational curriculum where is is simply not OK to be a boy, as the recent fashion for "toxic masculinity" attests, not to mention a still ongoing fad for drugging the little guys out of it. One notes that the bulk of the problem is, in fact, boys who want to be girls and not the other way around. It's not hard to see why.
Grooming children for castration is now mainstream.
Darwin in action, cleaning out the gene pool.
I had a hard time believing or comprehending the results cited. So I went to the Academy website and looked up the study.
Stunning!. Even more stunning is that the report brief didn’t seem to indicate any sense of alarm. It’s just to damning of current trendy psychobabble, I guess.
Of COURSE it is!!!
Mentally ill are ALWAYS at a higher risk of suicide.
Let’s not even get into the fact that pandering to their delusions rather than helping them realize they are deluded just sets them up for more mental and emotional trauma.
Psychologist and Psychiatrists are engaging in malpractice when it comes to these issues. They should be in jail!
It’s sad for individuals and their families, but it’s Nature’s way of thinning the herd.
I’d guess that some/many suicides were mentally troubled kids in the first place, encouraged by our sick culture into believing transgenderism would relieve their dysphoria (gender and/or otherwise), only to find they are as miserable as ever, perhaps more so.
If any other population group was approaching a 50% suicide rate, the entire group should be detained and psychiatrically evaluated and any found to be at risk should be institutionalized.
No matter what the data shows, the answer is always more liberalism. No matter how many die.
Unsurprised.
Divorcing yourself from the purposes/functions that Nature (God) intended for you, is a recipe for disaster.