FYI review of Trans suicide stats

This is a review of trans suicide stats

Mortality from suicide was strikingly high among sex-reassigned persons, also after adjustment for prior psychiatric morbidity. In line with this, sex-reassigned persons were at increased risk for suicide attempts. Previous reports suggest that transsexualism is a strong risk factor for suicide, also after sex reassignment, and our long-term findings support the need for continued psychiatric follow-up for persons at risk to prevent this

So if you are a transsexual, it seems that you must be at a higher risk for suicide compared to the average person.

Maybe not at as high as is claimed but I hope people wouldn't dismiss the fact that transsexual people are at a risk of suicide due to being transsexual.

PoisonWitch

was that before or after the debate?

This has been tweeted to several of the MPs involved in the debate I think.

Thanks MissMargie

I was aware of the skewing of the figures and disappointed to see them used at the debate this week. Minimising the ansgt of parents of transgender children isn't useful, but if I was a parent in that situation, terrified for my child's life, I would find it at least reassuring, that the figures aren't as dramatic as is being said. I have copied and pasted below a post from WombOfOnesOwn who analysed what the figures would mean, if they were correct.

She also pointed out that Mermaids consistently ignore guidelines on how to present these figures. They are the only charity who do this, against all advice from mental health care professionals.

"According to trans website statistics, about half a percent of people are trans, so about 300,000 trans people in the UK. About 12 percent of the UK population is aged 15-24, for a figure of about 36,000 total trans youth.

If about half of these youth (18,000) have attempted suicide, and 1 in 25 attempts was successful, you'd have about 720 trans youth suicides out of a 10-year age cohort, so you'd expect to see about 72 per year. According to Samaritans, about 600 people in that age group, in total, committed suicide in 2014. If trans youth are successful in suicide attempts as frequently as other youth, you would expect over 10% of total youth suicides to be of trans youth, and for there to be a new story of a trans suicide youth more than once a week.

In the United States, the figures are even crazier -- if trans teens are as successful as other age groups when attempting suicide, there'd be a trans youth suicide more than once a day there.

None of this is actually happening, though -- there simply aren't this number of trans teen suicides happening."