Transgender people have an average life expectancy of 30-35, or lower

[StealthPolarBear]

On Twitter, no reference.
If this is true it's a travesty.
I find it very hard to believe.

Life expectancy across the board in Liberia was 42 not so long ago.

@StealthPolarBear

On Twitter, no reference. If this is true it's a travesty. I find it very hard to believe.

Hmmm but dont most men transition in their 40s and 50s? Hows that work then? do they also age transition and actually die in their 70s and 80s like most of us?

Again, to reiterate, the "35" number is the average age of trans murder victims (somewhere).

Which is the same as the average age of all murder victims, pretty much everywhere.

Or, indeed, the average age of anyone...

ferippi.tumblr.com/post/660499183294365696/tras-like-to-use-the-statistic-that-trans-life
And within this:
<a class="break-all" href="https://href.li/?www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br/noticias/cidadania/ibge-e-estudioso-negam-ter-afirmado-que-trans-vivem-ate-35-anos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">href.li/?www.guiagaysaopaulo.com.br/noticias/cidadania/ibge-e-estudioso-negam-ter-afirmado-que-trans-vivem-ate-35-anos
Second link is in Portuguese.

Really interesting, FlyingOink, thank you.

Not read the whole thread but I did autism training recently that said the average life expectancy of someone with autism was around 35.

I'd need to see some really good sources to believe that. Are we talking UK? Worldwide?

OK this suggests 39.5 years for people with severe autism and associated comorbidities: www.thinkingautism.org.uk/addressing-poor-health-high-death-rates-in-autism/

This thread has all of the answers that people need.
There are explanations and links to show where these figures came from and how they absolutely do not mean that being a transwoman means you are likely to die in your 30s. It's nonsense.

@KeflavikAirport it's based on a Swedish survey from 2016.

Reasons are varied, but autistic people with LDs have a shockingly low life expectancy. Suicide rates for autistic men in particular are a lot higher than general population. Non-verbal autistic people have huge difficulties accessing treatment. Diabetes is much higher. And autism is often a co-morbidity with other life limiting illnesses - obvs in that case it's not the autism per se that would cause the early death.

thecritic.co.uk/neither-marginalised-abused-nor-vulnerable/

This article explains some of this as it relates to the UK

It seems to me that the active TRAs I see having their voices heard online and in the media are actually rather high in social capital.

Well even if that were true (it’s not) it doesn’t mean that we should give them anything and everything they ask for

Why is it not true? By definition if you have a media platform you are not socially disenfranchised.

I mean the statistics around life expectancy

ah ok!