> The difficulty of coping with gender dysphoria could just as easily explain the high suicide rate among trans people. While you're right that dysphoria over

> The difficulty of coping with gender dysphoria could just as easily explain the high suicide rate among trans people. While you're right that dysphoria over physical manifestations of the wrong gender can be traumatic, in my experience its usually the experience of social shame. > It's a tool, a necessary one, and it's not helpful to label shame as "toxic and destructive" I didn't. > The fact that the latter is likely more harmful than the former does not make it violent. There's the 2nd definition in the dictionary: "strength of emotion or an unpleasant or destructive natural force". Shame is a violent force.