When politicians talk about how trans people are subhuman or deranged or biblically evil, it contributes to trans people being stigmatized and depressed. As a result of this culture of cruelty, many trans people end up committing suicide.

Where are the corporations firing these people? Just because trans teens sometimes commit suicide quietly behind closed doors does not make the violence somehow less terrible.

  • flemtone@lemmy.world
    934·
    13 hours ago

    You seem to put the onus of trans killing themselves on everyone around them and not the inner turmoil of their own minds.

    • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Lower self-reported transphobia was associated with a 66 % reduction in ideation, and an additional 76 % reduction in attempts among those with ideation

      https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2.pdf

      An increase by one context in which a chosen name could be used predicted a 5.37-unit decrease in depressive symptoms, a 29% decrease in suicidal ideation, and a 56% decrease in suicidal behavior.

      https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(18)30085-5/fulltext#intraref0010a

      Socially transitioned transgender children who are supported in their gender identity have developmentally normative levels of depression and only minimal elevations in anxiety, suggesting that psychopathology is not inevitable within this group.

      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26921285/

      So yes. Increased depression and suicide among trans people is, according to the research, entirely correlated with social factors like how much they are accepted by friends/family and chose name use.

    • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      92·
      7 hours ago

      If you had to experience excruciating levels of gender dysphoria, hate and animosity – often coming from your own family –, maybe you would think differently…

      It’s not just verbal either, there is a real chance of non-passing trans people getting followed or even beaten up, especially in the evenings/nights. And yes, in the “civilised” west.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I got my dream job offer rescinded two weeks ago BECAUSE I AM TRANS.

      I have experienced sexual violence BECAUSE I AM TRANS.

      I am terrified of being pulled over by a cop and institutionalized or incarcerated because the government says that my license is wrong now.

      The problem is not my mental state. The problem is the discrimination.

      If I killed myself, it would to be to avoid becoming homeless - because, like many trans people, there are substantial barriers to employment. It doesn’t matter if the Supreme Court said it’s illegal to fire people for being trans, it fucking happens.

      My mental health would be peachy fucking keen if I were not part of the marginalized minority group that the government is so slavering to make a target that they tried to pretend the Kirk shooter carved trans propaganda into his bullets! They want to kill us or institutionalize us - how the fuck would your mental health be if you were walking around with a target on your back?