100% agree with this. It isn't the gender affirming surgery or medications causing suicide. It is the identity itself. Coddling that identity is coddling suicide and schools should play no role in coddling it. For the well being of the kids they are entrusted with, they should fight it as hard as they possibly can because transgender adolescents kill themselves at an alarmingly high rate.
If I were to pick one thing as your great talent, it would be to present evidence that directly contradicts your claims, evidence you didn't read carefully or didn't understand.
From the abstract in the PubMed article you linked:
Interpersonal microaggressions, made a unique, statistically significant contribution to lifetime suicide attempts and emotional neglect by family approached significance. School belonging, emotional neglect by family, and internalized self-stigma made a unique, statistically significant contribution to past 6-month suicidality.
Accepting a trans identity, once established, improves outcomes.
Data that social contagion is in fact a real phenomenon in human psychology published in a peer reviewed prestigious scientific journal.
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This study does not touch sexual orientation nor gender transition.
Data that indicates transgender identification rates are affected by the human psychology phenomenon described in the above linked article, also published in peer reviewed prestigious scientific journals.
There is nothing prestigious about Psychological Perspectives, published by
Taylor & Francis, and Ms. Marchiano's claims are based primarily on a self-selected survey of 200 people who de-transitioned.
The PLOS One paper is much better, but it refers to the parents experiences and uses the parents narratives, without talking to the children directly. It does not address in any way the health of the children.
Although there is a great deal of debate over Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, the critique is typically aimed at the Rapid Onset part. That adolescents are susceptible to social pressure is well established as is the link between identifying as transgender in adolescence and suicide.
The AAP study did not say anything about social pressure.
Now, answer the question you ducked earlier. Why is a chilling effect on a thing that data indicates is a contributor to suicide a bad thing?
Because there is a difference between treating a condition and suppressing it. You don't cure OCD by telling people to stop obsessing.
Being an adult means sometimes having to do the difficult thing.
You, however, choose the easy thing for you (and don't pretend otherwise that it would be harder for you to adjust your mindset than to countermand your kids), that causes increased pain for the child.
There is research that has been presented many times in this forum showing that biological males who identify as transgender and do not receive gender affirming "care" nearly always grow up to be gay men.
Unfortunately, much of said research is contaminated by the confusion of gender non-conformity (which does tend to fade) with gender dysphoria, which if it persists through puberty, tends to be permanent.
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There is nothing wrong with being gay, and the gay community doesn't have the suicide problem the transgender one does.
They have a lesser suicide problem. However, many people who transition go on to be homosexual in their revealed gender identity, as opposed to their birth identity, a phenomenon that puts your position to rest entirely. Trans women are not "confused gay men"; many of them are lesbians.
It is a scientific term with a clear definition
You use one definition, Rep. Cawthorn uses a distinct and non-overlapping definition, the editor of the Babylon Bee uses yet a third that does not equal either of yours. All of you insist your definitions are "biological", because you're all ignorant of the wondrous variation of human biology and the resistance to simple definitions that it offers. This means that your definition carries more social animus than precision. Not that it really matters. You've made it clear that you don't mind hurting kids in order to enforce your own social vision.
I have given multiple times and I will continue to use it to keep my words from being twisted.
No fear there, I understand you.
