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An adolescent boy grows breasts and then wants to stay in his room all day. It could well be all about body shame, trying to protect himself from social trauma.
by hirundo 6y ago
An adolescent boy grows breasts and then wants to stay in his room all day. It could well be all about body shame, trying to protect himself from social trauma. The rate of suicide among people who transition on purpose is so extremely high. What must it be among people who are transitioned by force.
- jauer 6y agoGiving someone the wrong hormones is one way to induce gender dysphoria in non-trans people, so suicide rate there should be similar to that of trans people with unmanaged gender dysphoria. Suicide rates among people who transition are generally correlated with minority stress [1,2], not transition itself: "The myth that transition leads to SITBs continues to be used to deny transgender health care access and legislative rights, despite a lack of empirical support for this position and repeated research debunking it." (SITB= suicidal thoughts and behaviors) [3] 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813817/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6813817/ 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178031/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178031/ 3: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/trgh.2019.0009 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/trgh.2019.0009