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That stat ... did I read correctly that it was based on 27 people? So a very thorough and far reaching study?
Not only that; it was based upon a self-selecting survey, with a prize draw as a carrot, with a warning that if you completed it more than once you wouldn't get two entries. No other protection against people doing just that, using different emails. And the vast bulk of the responses weren't from young trans people at all. Yet it's now used as a solid statistic in all manner of serious reports. A bit like the rape statistic, which conflates lesbians and transwomen and then says the statistical risk of lesbians is that of trans.
And we have around 600 suicides a year in the UK. It's a terrible loss in every case, but in a population of 62,000,000, I don't think that's an epidemic.
When people say 47% of trans people kill themselves, they have to believe that even if nobody who isn't trans ever does, there are still only 1200 trans people in the country. It's just stupidity writ large.
It's also a recognised fact that telling teenagers they are at additional risk of suicide increases their risk, whether originally true or not. How awfully responsible. GIDS stress that it's wholly untrue and they see the levels they'd expect given the other factors. They said it is harmful to the reslience of the children they see to make that claim, which they do not recognise as correct.
The bullshit spouted in support of these sweeping legal changes - changes that have huge impact on women's rights, freedoms and provision - is just extraordinary. If the case is so compelling, then why the need to lie?