> The suicide rate for trans people is as high as it is almost ENTIRELY because of shame It's not clear to me how you can confidently state something like this

> The suicide rate for trans people is as high as it is almost ENTIRELY because of shame It's not clear to me how you can confidently state something like this. The difficulty of coping with gender dysphoria could just as easily explain the high suicide rate among trans people. > LGBT people have had to form whole alternate communities because of shame. For many of us our relationship to shame forms large parts of our personality. Like the article says, shame is amoral. It's a tool, a necessary one, and it's not helpful to label shame as "toxic and destructive". > I agree if you're dealing with the idea of "all" shame, but in a lot of contexts is just as or even more harmful. Being punched is less harmful to a person than feeling like they're rejected by the whole of their community. Punching someone is violent. Disapproving of someone's sexual orientation is not. The fact that the latter is likely more harmful than the former does not make it violent. It's also quite easy to imagine an act that is very harmful but is neither violent nor wrong.