Episode 192: The Transgender Suicide Epidemic

If there was a group of people whose suicide rate was 10 times that of the population in general, what would you do about it? Well, if you’re on the Left these days, you’d encourage more people to join that group.

That’s what happening in the transgender community.

This is a tragedy that has been going on for years, and not just in the US but worldwide. The Left and their parrots in the media generally try to blame this on rejection by society, parents, and peers. But there a few problems with limiting blame to just those causes, or by assuming that those are even the major causes.

Mentioned links:

Episode 153: What Activists (and the Media That Cover Them) Get Wrong About Human Sexuality

The transgender suicide epidemic: is accepting their confusion really the answer?

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

People in homosexual ‘marriages’ almost 3 times more likely to commit suicide: study

The Transgender Suicide Rate Isn’t Due To Discrimination

Suicide Statistics [American Foundation for Suicide Prevention]

Show transcript

If there was a group of people whose suicide rate was 10 times that of the population in general, what would you do about it? Well, if you’re on the Left these days, you’d encourage more people to join that group.

That’s what happening in the transgender community. When asked if they have attempted suicide, 41% say Yes. Greta Gustava Martela, who founded the Trans Lifeline suicide hotline, put it this way, “With 41% attempting suicide, you have to assume something’s just not working for transgender folks.”

This is a tragedy that has been going on for years, and not just in the US but worldwide. The Left and their parrots in the media generally try to blame this on rejection by society, parents, and peers. But there a few problems with limiting blame to just those causes, or by assuming that those are even the major causes.

The first and most obvious one is that there is clearly an internal conflict within the transgendered person. Dr. Paul R. McHugh was the psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and is currently the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry. He performed sex reassignment surgeries there, but upon seeing how it so often didn’t change the outlook of the patient, he had John Hopkins stop such surgeries. He realized that the transgendered suffered from what he calls a, “disorder of ‘assumption’” – the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. As I’ve mentioned before on this podcast, this is a subset of body dysmorphia, where the perception of what your body is does not live up to your belief of what it should be. Whereas an anorexic believes their body is fatter than it really is, a transgendered believe they are a different gender than they really are.

Dr. McHugh also reported on a new study that shows that post-surgery transgendered people have a suicide rate that is actually 20 time higher than non-transgendered. Clearly, giving in to their “disorder of assumption” actually makes things worse overall.

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