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> But, if that’s true, why would men demote themselves to womanhood? For reasons of sexual fetishism, says Jeffreys i just looked up some stats on trans death.
by graevy 5y ago
> But, if that’s true, why would men demote themselves to womanhood? For reasons of sexual fetishism, says Jeffreys
i just looked up some stats on trans death. it was hard to get a good international life expectancy source; most seem to peg it at about 32-40, or half the general population's. i did definitively find that 2 in 5 living american trans people self-report attempted suicide. must be quite the fetish, Sheila.
the paradox of tolerance: tolerating bigotry replaces your alienated userbase with bigots until it stops couching itself in virtuous newyorker articles.
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- unmole 5y ago> good international life expectancy source; most seem to peg it at about 32-40 Which sources? The frequently cited 35 years figure is nonsense: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/23/41471629/is-the-life-expectancy-of-trans-women-in-the-us-just-35-no https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/09/23/41471629/is-the-...
- graevy 5y agothe article that you linked is trying to debug the US life expectancy claim. i specifically wrote "international". your own article cites a (quite thorough! better than i found on short notice) analysis in latin america estimating the number between 30-35 as its 772nd citation...