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Transactivists 'must stop invoking suicide'

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IcakethereforeIam · 14/03/2024 16:20

About time someone with knowledge in this field stepped up and said this

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/14/transgender-activists-suicide-puberty-blockers-debate-stop/

https://archive.ph/I47Ga paywall bypass

Unless they've been saying it for years but it's just now being reported. I've never understood why tras and tra organisations got a pass over this, when everyone else is very careful. Even being very careful about reporting the suicide of someone in the public eye, usually reported as a sudden death.

I think even organisations that do know better (I think it was the Samaritans?) throw sense, truth and compassion out the window.

I thought this article deserved its own thread.

And if the tras* could lay off the death and rape threats too. You know, actually behave like decent human beings, instead of just identifying as decent, that would be nice.

*Obviously NATRAALT

Trans activists ‘must stop invoking suicide in puberty blockers debate’

Prof Sir Louis Appleby, the Government’s adviser on suicide prevention, said raising the subject may add to distress in young people

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/14/transgender-activists-suicide-puberty-blockers-debate-stop

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ErrolTheDragon · 14/03/2024 16:30

I can never get the archive links to open but I found it here

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trans-activists-must-stop-invoking-150225322.html?guccounter=1&gucereferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guceereferrersig=AQAAAN5CD8jLtm3tBtD-NeJMo4EHP3-9rxRaUeiy8G9k8yWBzcMcX691MTFJHLQWHBqFv9kOxUuwSWVD6Fum3ZEVvLuUlUVQm0i6Vm4E4GO6Rl7tP8lWEtkkwIZ-ZXk41ceELvCC0w8wUJCEMldPrtxRPboTYylJGw7aK-WZRHZp3xjA

Ereshkigalangcleg · 14/03/2024 16:27

"Groups like the charity Mermaids, which have been accused of pushing <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/I47Ga/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/26/use-of-puberty-blockers-doubled-since-nhs-clampdown/" rel="nofollow" target="blank">puberty blockersrs on children, have claimed that denying a child’s right to change their gender identity could increase the risk of suicide.^

MPs have also used the argument in the Commons.

Prof Appleby, a psychiatrist who leads the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England, said: “Children with gender distress may face bullying, isolation and family conflict, [which are] reasons to be alert to suicide risk.

“Empathetic support is vital but evidence that puberty blockers reduce risk is weak and unreliable.

“Invoking suicide in this debate is mistaken and potentially harmful.”

Writing on X, formerly Twitter, he added: “We need to see an end to that line about choosing a living daughter or a dead son.

“It is not based on evidence. May add to distress in young people and mislead worried parents.

“Deeply insensitive to 200 families a year to whom the suicide of a teenager is more than a slogan.”

Well said Professor Sir Louis Appleby.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 14/03/2024 16:26

This is the first time he’s intervened and it’s good to see

I find it horrifying that adults push this narrative about suicide at children.

AIstolemylunch · 14/03/2024 16:21

Hard Agree