One of the most prevalent attacks on transgender people is that they, as a population, suffer from high levels of suicidality. The anti-transgender argument nested in this is that transgender people are innately mentally unhealthy, and the best way to address this is to make them “not-transgender” by forcing them to spend their lives in the closet or to detransition. Usually this involves some implication of reparative therapy of some sort. However, when examining the actual factors associated with suicidality, it is not being transgender that is the cause. It is the society they live in which
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