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Suicide rate of those who have undergone reassignment

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Wandawomble · 28/03/2021 12:21

Noticed a comment on the Times article recently posted - “The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers.”

Can we find more information about this?

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Soontobe60 · 11/04/2021 20:06

@BlueLipstickRocks

I'm an adult late 40s and a post op transsexual.

I will always maintain that being trabssexual is a psychological disorder- it is certainly not normal to seek the amputation of healthy body parts! Therefore one would anticipate a higher degree of mental health issues.

Reassignment helps the right people but many are getting reassignment now that are blatantly not suitable. Fantasy is very different to reality! Also, even to those who do benefit it is by no means a miracle cure.

Thank you for your honesty. If you don’t mind me asking, and please tell me if you do, when you first considered having surgery how much time did medics take to assess any mental health needs you may (or may not) have had?
BlueLipstickRocks · 11/04/2021 19:59

I'm an adult late 40s and a post op transsexual.

I will always maintain that being trabssexual is a psychological disorder- it is certainly not normal to seek the amputation of healthy body parts! Therefore one would anticipate a higher degree of mental health issues.

Reassignment helps the right people but many are getting reassignment now that are blatantly not suitable. Fantasy is very different to reality! Also, even to those who do benefit it is by no means a miracle cure.

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GNCQ · 28/03/2021 16:20

The single most frequent cause of death in males under 50 years old is suicide.

(When you include the over 50's it accounts for the 7th leading cause of death).

Most mature adult transsexuals as per that study are male.
It's possible there is a belief in some suicidal males that if they transition they'll be alleviated from their depression? But it doesn't work?

They're at risk of suicide because they're male and depressed, not just because they're "trans"?

There are a lot of questions, but inflated suicide stats are myth number 5 in gender ideology.

NiceGerbil · 28/03/2021 16:10

God that's awful.

More studying needed to find out how to get better outcomes. That's really sad.

I wonder what other groups have similar outcomes and if learnings can be applied across both groups.

I really think that the suggestion that drugs surgery and affirmation are all that's required is short sighted. The desire from some quarters to dismiss any mental health factors is really unhelpful.

ArabellaScott · 28/03/2021 15:39

This is comparing people who have undergone 'reassignment' with the rest of the populations, effectively? Finding it a bit hard to parse out what they are classing 'reassignment'.

Melroses · 28/03/2021 13:21

I saw that and wondered. Thanks for the link.

midgeswithnofingernails · 28/03/2021 12:58

Is it as awful as your post suggests?

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Wandawomble · 28/03/2021 12:29

journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885

Actually I think I have found it here.

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