Suicidal Ideation Disparities Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Compared to Normal Gender Community Health Patients
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Suicidal Ideation Disparities Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Compared to Normal Gender Community Health Patients
Suicidal Thoughts Skyrocket in Transgender Individuals
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Almost every night on the news there is another story about “gender journeys” that end up in regret. We frequently see gatherings, strife, violence, and despair among those who have attempted to live out their fantasy of switching genders by changing their bodily appearance, hair, makeup, and clothes. I wondered if transgenderism is taking its toll psychiatrically in young individuals with regret, particularly with respect to suicidal thoughts.
Kirakosian et al reported on 29,988 patients receiving care at a community health center in Northeastern US between 2015 and 2018 and completed a health survey. They reported that relative to normal men, transgender men (OR=2.08; 95% CI=1.29–3.36; p=.003), transgender women (OR=3.08; 95% CI=2.05–4.63; p<.001), men who do not affirm their gender (OR=3.55; 95% CI=1.86–6.77; p<001), and women who do not affirm their gender (OR=2.49; 95% CI=1.52–4.07; p<001) all endorsed significantly higher odds of current suicidal ideation, controlling for age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and insurance status.
Transgenderism, whether committed steps have been taken or not, is a pathological state characterized by markedly elevated rates of suicidal ideation and high risk for suicide. Instead of more hormones and surgery, these patients need professional psychiatric help.
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Suicidal Ideation Disparities Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Compared to Normal Gender Community Health Patients
My sister told me about a guy on Twitter, @JoeyMannarinoUS, who has posted about transgenders, and it sounds like these people who are being butchered, especially children, don’t have any idea about the nightmare that awaits them. “Transgender surgery is incredibly invasive and not the right treatment for for the mental disease known as gender dysphoria.” He goes on to explain what surgery entails for a vagina and a penis, the constant care and the pain they suffer afterwards, the medications. How could a child possibly understand any of this?
Many of these individuals are prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for depression or anxiety, and one of the side effects of those drugs is suicidal thoughts.