The Poster Child is Dead.
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Just another day on the transgender suicide train...
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Opening the door to whether transgenderism is a mental illness, aren't you?
Body dysmorphia (anorexia, etc) is considered a mental illness, and is treated with psychiatric/psychological therapies.
Is this different? I don't know.
Do we treat anorexia with surgery, gastric bypass/staplilng? No we don't (yet).
It's a fascinating subject. I know exactly one transgender person (IRL, not online). S/he was as crazy and insecure as could be. This person, imo, needed therapy, and not just for the transgenderism. S/he was a deeply disturbed person.
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Opening the door to whether transgenderism is a mental illness, aren't you?
Body dysmorphia (anorexia, etc) is considered a mental illness, and is treated with psychiatric/psychological therapies.
Is this different? I don't know.
Do we treat anorexia with surgery, gastric bypass/staplilng? No we don't (yet).
It's a fascinating subject. I know exactly one transgender person (IRL, not online). S/he was as crazy and insecure as could be. This person, imo, needed therapy, and not just for the transgenderism. S/he was a deeply disturbed person.
@George-K said in The Poster Child is Dead.:
Opening the door to whether transgenderism is a mental illness, aren't you?
Body dysmorphia (anorexia, etc) is considered a mental illness, and is treated with psychiatric/psychological therapies.
Is this different? I don't know.
Do we treat anorexia with surgery, gastric bypass/staplilng? No we don't (yet).
It's a fascinating subject. I know exactly one transgender person (IRL, not online). S/he was as crazy and insecure as could be. This person, imo, needed therapy, and not just for the transgenderism. S/he was a deeply disturbed person.
Are you assuming that suicide = mental illness? If yes, then it’s the psychiatric and medical specialists declaring it a mental illness… “Would you rather have a live son or dead daughter” and all of that.
Now, if I may ask… Teen suicide ideation was on a very steep drop for decades. From 29% in 1990 to 14% in 2009. Gender affirming care became readily in 2010. Since then suicide ideation has increased by over 20%. Attempted suicide is up by 16.7%, and successful suicide is up by 26% since 2009. Does that sound like Gender Affirming Care is saving lives?
It seems to me that the actual causes for suicide are being misdiagnosed and not being treated.
