Posted on 09/13/2018 11:26:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Transgender adolescents are far more likely to attempt suicide than teens whose identity matches their sex assigned at birth, and trans male youth are especially at risk, a U.S. study suggests.
Roughly half of transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth have attempted suicide at least once, the study found. And 42 percent of adolescents who dont identify exclusively as male or female have at least one prior suicide attempt.
About 30 percent of trans female teens - who identify as female but have birth certificates that label them as male - have tried suicide at least once, as have 28 percent of adolescents who are questioning their gender identity, the study also found.
In contrast to all of these groups of transgender teens, just 18 percent of females and 10 percent of males who are cisgender meaning their gender identity matches what it says on their birth certificate have attempted suicide.
Our findings are startling, said study leader Russell Toomey of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
“were assigned a female gender”
No one is assigned a gender. Doctor looks to see if there’s a weewee. If yes, male, if no, female.
Head should conform to sex. If not, that’s insanity. No wonder they off themselves.
The other half will, too, just as soon as people around them quit giving them the attention they crave.
Here’s his entire article though I didn’t get who he is...sorry. But he’s a Dr.
The ability of almost all human beings, including even young children, to identify and naturally classify people by biological sex is a normal... normativefunction of reason......Claims of transgenderism cannot be proved by putting on clothes or makeup, or even surgically altering the body .....
And since when did ‘the mentally ill become protected because of their deviant behavior?.......They know they are not women.... A woman is fully a woman, and a man is fully a man, born a male you will always be one and the same said if you were born female, that fact is in the DNA regardless of what mental disorders you may have, which is just their twisted tale of woe because they are actually deep into a compulsive sexual fetish.....These are just sick fetish driven men..Obsessing over your gender is not normal. It’s mental..
“Trans” people are of one sex or the other, whether it’s due to abuse or from some other stimuli, they reject the sex that they are...”Feelings” gets bandied about to describe transgender people’s identification, but it’s an easy way of dismissing the reality if what’s actually going on......Anorexia is also difficult to cure, but we don’t give them liposuction.
Individual delusion and mental illness should not drive public policy.....a male fetish is not a civil right.....Nobody is proposing preventing people with these problems from being able to live normal lives. But that’s done with treatment, not enabling....Can’t have it both ways. No matter how many Mercedes Benz emblems put on a truck it is still a Chevy truck.... Born a Chevy truck and will always be a Chevy truck...No matter how many parts you change it will always be what it is. ...Always.
Their problem is in their head.,,,people who live in their own fantasy world take sick pleasure in coercing people into their fantasy. They are abnormal, and they know it - but they figure it’s easy to change other people’s minds than to change and be normal. ......If anything it’s like dealing with drug users. When you enable a drug user such that they become an addict, and the drug user continues to be enabled, the drug user will die..... They have a problem that needs to be treated, to get them back to reality. The same holds true with so-called “trans” people. Enabling them, even to the point of mutilating and doping them up, doesn’t get them back to reality............ They do not have a right to be enabled by everybody else.
The doctors who created sex reassignment surgery also concluded it doesn’t work and stopped doing the procedure. They invented it as a last ditch effort to treat GD, as it is resistant to traditional psychotherapy (like anorexia). Short term results were positive, so they thought it worked. After following patients long-term, they realized those results were temporary and that sex reassignment surgery was not an appropriate treatment. Unfortunately, the procedure was by then ‘out there’ and many other doctors now willing to perform it, so it continues.
A long process involving hormones, surgery and a wealth of other changes will not change a man to a woman. In fact, no intervention will do such.... mutilation doesn’t cure the disorder. It only hides it.
The really terrifying part is that they are going to win because of people seeing one side and not caring about the
see post 43
Trust me, I know! I have kids in school from grade 11 to 1st grade.
Then you’re up front and personal with the kids in ‘reflecting’ their parents as well as Hollywood and the education trash they are being taught. Sad the ‘infestation’ is so vast and deep it’s not going to be stopped...especially when political reps and entites are also pushing this junk!
They don’t need to attempt suicide. They need to chop up their parents with an axe in the middle of the night.
In WallyWorld yesterday, someone was talking about an employee who was getting ready to get an addadicktomy. SHE already has a beard, tattoos and spiked colored hair. In the past, SHE strapped down HER boobs but these days they’re flapping around free as the breeze so don’t know what’s up with that. Total mental illness.
I went to a health food store one time and this guy turns around and he’s a pretend she! But he had a body builders body all pumped up! What a totally freaky looking character let me tell you! Talk about a confused individual!
What is with this "sex assigned at birth"? Being male or female is a biological fact, not something that is "assigned" to someone.
Thanks for the heads up. I was already quite convinced. Im sad for this generation but maybe the next generation with gender dysphoria will get TRUE SUPPORT for their condition. Millennials try to shame me for my position today but I know I am right. Ill be proven right one day.
My position is for the psychology/psychiatry world to start young, as young as possible, and counsel and support kids with gender dysphoria to accept themselves as they are. There is no need to take hormones or surgeries. So you feel like [the opposite gender]? Thats ok. You cant help it. Love yourself the way you are. Live how you like. Wear what you feel comfortable in. And we must get society on board. Let your loved ones play with the toys they want, like other kids can. They cant help the brain disorder. Dont tell them they need or should transition. Let them be the gender they will always be and have always been, but accept that they feel like the other one. That is just how it is. Your child with Down Syndrome will not come up with new math theorems. Your blind child will not be an air traffic controller etc. And your little boy might feel like, and act a bit like, a girl. Its all good. People with disabilities need love and acceptance. That is our job as psychologists and as fellow human beings.
I believe one day most cases will be prevented by a better uterine environment. But I cant back that up with solid science. Yet.
Ill be proven right one day.
My position is for the psychology/psychiatry world to start young, as young as possible, and counsel and support kids with gender dysphoria to accept themselves as they are.
A good share of gay/trans/whatever is the latest fashion craze among youth. it is “Hey, look at me!” And we look at them and encourage more of the behavior.
I repeat, start with recognizing what it is, a behavior. Causes are multiple and complex.
We do not leave a down syndrome child to his own devices. We do not say you poor thing. We work with him to improve his way in society.
I just keep trying to train them up in the way they should go. I hope I don’t screw it up that they won’t leave it.
I know there is only so much in my hands.
Call them whatever, male, female... One thing I know for sure is that my hormones (male in my case) were raging during the adolescent years. (For ya’ll in Rio Linda, the term for the condition is “horny”).
I’m trying to say this as delicately as I can. What’s a transgendered adolescent person to do, and how’s he going to do it, and with whom. Think of the possible outcomes. So many choices, so little time, so much confusion about sex. Toss in a little perversion (bestiality) and a few fetishes, and viola.
That’s enough to drive a sane person to the brink of suicide. A confused person over the brink. Thank goodness most of us have made the correct choice and our gene pool remains intact. In other cases the gene pool is cleansed.
“Thats a shame. They need real help. Real politically incorrect help.”
I totally agree. It’s very sad to me - particularly when this is encouraged by adults with an agenda. Mental illness is worse than cancer in my opinion, and is a major problem in the world. Preventing someone from getting the help they need, because it fits your ideological agenda, is horrible.
Even “trangenders” know deep down that what they’ve essentially done is donned a disguise, although elaborate, radical and permanent.
Trans “women” (males) know, or soon find out, that their “vagina” isn’t really vaginal tissue, with all of the unique properties and functions that it possesses. It is still penile tissue turned inside out and refashioned or intestinal tissue for a mucus membrane, with all of those properties and functions/misfunctions. In other words, they will be trying to use a screwdriver to drive a nail.
their gender identity matches what it says on their birth certificate
Legal document be darned... I will tell you what gender I am!
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