Wanna B Wanda Wrote:
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> Ethan -
>
> Get off your high horse. This is not about
> "rights." This is about progressives like Ryan
> McElvain and the Obama Administration using
> government coercion to force society to accept and
> accommodate the whims of the LBGQT community.
>
> Show me one right that has been denied to the
> transgender community. Rights are based on
> natural law and apply equally. When progressives
> try and create special rights to "special" groups
> they fracture the social compact and create
> division and annimosity between groups. It's basic
> rules for radicals.
>
> As for suicide rates among trans, perhaps if you
> could get off your high horse, you would see that
> sex reassignment rarely solves the underlying
> mental issues that lead trans people to depression
> and suicide. Many of these people have been sold
> snake oil and have been told cut off your breasts
> and take hormones and you will be a man or get
> implants, hormones and have a surgeon snip your
> penis and stuff the skin into your scrotum to make
> a vagina and you will be happy as a woman only to
> discover that no, the underlying confusion,
> depression, and loneliness remain.
>
> Rather than telling the rest of us how unloving,
> how intolerant and how hateful we are, why don't
> you go and read up on the many studies that show
> that your solutions don't solve the suicidal
> tendencies for transgendered people.
>
>
http://www.sexchangeregret.com/research
WHile there are cases of regret, and the suicide rates are still higher than the national average, they are FAR lower than for trans people who have not undergone transition. And the majority of cases where people regret having a sex change surgery are ones not due to having the surgery but due to the surgery being done poorly.