Theweakeredge AMA - Reboot

though more specifically to increase the density of educated people in the US. So, I would just say it's a case-by-case basis, same as it is now. 

though - it actually isn't by much - where 0.7% of adults identify as transgender between the ages of 18-24, 05% of people over the age of 65% identity as trans - like - you do realize that this is the exact argument had against gay people right? The comparison is blinding with how obvious it is. 

And this is a big question that a lot of cis people have, and the answer is simple, what defines or distinguishes gender is your experience, unless you have a specific way of measuring neurologic connections with regard to interpreting data, it is literally the only way you can distinguish, so you know how you do that? You just ask the individual, its the same thing as being straight or gay. 

Though the confusion is understandable you being an admitted bigot isn't - that's just being a dick.

Um... you do realize that you need a job to pay for.... anything? Right? Like, do you think that if these workers COULD get a better job they wouldn't? Like what the hell? People HAVE to pay for rent, for food, for water, for electricity, all of the above - of course they agree - a lot of times its the only work they can find!

Ebuc....1} What are you afraid of most, personally?  2} What are your worst fears beyond yourself?

"Some experts believe rising awareness of transgender issues has led increasing numbers of transgender teens to come out, or to experiment with gender identification.

“With growing trans visibility in the United States, some youth might find it safer to come out and talk about gender exploration,” Rider said.

But differences in estimates may also reflect differences in how gender identity questions are phrased, Rider said."

the basics are that gender identity is a neurological connection between how you perceives things and your experience (how data is input, and how you interpret that data as a human) -

 what defines or distinguishes gender is your experience, unless you have a specific way of measuring neurologic connections with regard to interpreting data, it is literally the only way you can distinguish, so you know how you do that? You just ask the individual, its the same thing as being straight or gay.

But also... I have no access to the study - even if I were to grant that the methodology is good (which I can't confirm given only access to a news story and vague explanations) - it literally explains in your source how the conclusion you come to is definitely not supported by the data. And again, this is assuming your study is valid. As for the disproportionate level of mental health emergencies that trans people go through? Well no duh - these people are literally oppressed on a daily basis, told that their identity doesn't exist, and that their existence is a "mental illness", yeah, no freaken' duh they have higher rates of suicide.,

the basics are that gender identity is a neurological connection between how you perceives things and your experience (how data is input, and how you interpret that data as a human) 

Um... because despite the fact that we aren't in repression - there are still millions in poverty, regardless, its about the principle of the matter - you shouldn't have to pay for things you need to live. "If it ain't broken don't fix it" is certainly a nice expression, it does delay progress though. 

Um... no -because the only DATA you've given has supported MY ARGUMENT, what data do you have to support that claim? 

 gender is a way that your brain perceives and interprets data - a fundamental set in fact...The difference is that male-ness and female-ness are already abstract enough, so the only people who can really identify which is the way they perceive things is themself, same way as gay people only being able to identify their feelings - the mere fact that its more complicated doesn't mean its not valid.

As for the last thing - whenever that system perpetuates poverty through ideology, heck yeah its indicative of the system.

General Risk Factors

Transgender people have many of the same risk factors for suicidality as found in the U.S. general population, such as depression, substance use, and housing instability. Similar to these trends in the U.S. general population, we found an elevated prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts among USTS respondents who:

• Experienced serious psychological distress and reported heavy alcohol or illicit drug use (excluding marijuana);
  
• Reported poor general health compared to those who reported excellent health (19.9% versus 3.6% past-year suicide attempts);
  
• Reported having a disability, experienced homelessness in the past year, or had ever been arrested for any reason.
  

Unique Risk Factors

In addition to general risk factors, transgender people have additional risk factors, such as experiences of discrimination, stigma, family rejection, and lack of access to gender-affirming health care. Findings regarding these unique factors include the following:

• Experiencing discrimination or mistreatment in education, employment, housing, health care, in places of public accommodations, or from law enforcement is associated with a higher prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts. For example, the prevalence of past-year suicide attempts by those who reported that they had been denied equal treatment in the past year because they are transgender was more than double that of those who had not experienced such treatment (13.4% compared to 6.3%).
  
• Those who reported that their spouses, partners, or children rejected them because they are transgender reported a higher prevalence of lifetime and past-year suicide attempts. Those
  
  who reported rejection by their family of origin, for example, reported twice the prevalence of past-year suicide attempts compared to those who had not experienced such rejection (10.5%compared to 5.1%).
  
• Respondents who had been rejected by their religious communities or had undergone conversion therapy were more likely to report suicide thoughts and attempts. For instance, 13.1 percent of those who had experienced religious rejection in the past year had attempted suicide in the past year; by contrast, 6.3 percent of respondents who had experienced religious acceptance in the past year attempted suicide in the past year.
  
• Experiences of violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with higher prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts. Over 30 percent of those who were physically attacked in a place of public accommodation reported attempting suicide in the past year, which is over four times the prevalence among respondents who were not similarly attacked.
  
• Those who had “de-transitioned” at some point, meaning having gone back to living according to their sex assigned at birth, were significantly more likely to report suicide thoughts and attempts, both past-year and lifetime, than those who had never “de-transitioned.” Nearly 12 percent of those who “de-transitioned” attempted suicide in the past year compared to 6.7 percent of those who have not “de-transitioned.”
  
• People who are not viewed by others as transgender and those who do not disclose to others that they are transgender reported a lower prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts. For instance, 6.3 percent of those who reported that others can never tell they are transgender attempted suicide in the past year compared to 12.2 percent of those who reported that others can always tell they are transgender.
  
• The cumulative effect of minority stress is associated with a higher prevalence of suicidality. For instance, 97.7 percent of those who had experienced four discriminatory or violence experiences in the past year (being fired or forced to resign from a job, eviction, experiencing homelessness, and physical attack) reported seriously thinking about suicide in the past year and 51.2 percent made a suicide attempt in the past year.
  

We also found that there are some factors that are associated with lower risk of suicide thoughts and attempts for USTS respondents:

• Respondents with supportive families reported lower prevalence of past-year and lifetime suicide thoughts and attempts.
  
• Those who wanted, and subsequently received, hormone therapy and/or surgical care had a substantially lower prevalence of past-year suicide thoughts and attempts than those who wanted hormone therapy and surgical care and did not receive them.
  
• A lower proportion of respondents who lived in a state with a gender identity nondiscrimination statute reported past-year suicide thoughts and attempts than those who lived in states without such a statute.
  

 the intrinsic discomfort and experiential pain of having your sex not match your gender. 

What the actual hell man? This data CONTRADICTS YOUR ARGUMENT - the highest rate in this graph are adolescent boys - or should we say girls, and yes we should - because that graph identifying them by sex isn't very consistent with an epistemological position of expression. Furthermore, we've been talkin' about America - that's quite explicitly what my numbers have been referring to - that's what the previous study you presented was about, why the sudden shift to UK graphs? Also can you even source that graph? Because right now it has no data to actually support it. And... yes! Because that's exactly what it is! It's not just "more opened minds" i guess you could say-  now not as many people want to find and kill people for being trans! Cause ya know hate crimes! 

 you could try to compare the discrimination to today's other minorities, but the fact of the matter is that transgender people are discriminated more than ANY OTHER MINORITY TODAY -

You are not reading a single thing - GENDER and SEX are two different things - people go through transitioning to feel comfortable with their sex, to make their sex match their gender-  which I ALREADY EXPLAINED...What does the sky have to do with anything? Why are you using that specific example - its not any one individual experience ITS A WAY OF EXPERIENCING THINGS, just like gay people, I've explained it all to you - you repeating "I don't get it" when you've been dishonest in the same post really doesn't give me much hope that you actually are trying to understand. 

"Puberty is a highly important time for people coming to an understanding of their gender identity. A significant fraction of individuals who are gender nonconforming in childhood may end up identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or another sexual minority rather than as transgender late adolescents and adults. This is generally referred to as desistance rather than detransition. Detransition, or retransition, is generally only used to describe someone who has transitioned socially or medically into a different gender role. An example of this is someone who was assigned female, lived socially as male for many years, and then returned to living as a woman. These types of cases tend to be very rare, and are even rarer in individuals who have accessed any medical or surgical care to affirm their gender. Language is important. Many activists and allies encourage the use of retransition rather than detransition to recognize that gender is a journey that may not necessarily go in a straight line. The term detransition is often used by individuals who want to restrict access to gender affirming care out of concern that it could lead to regret.

While regret is possible, it is rare. Lack of access to affirming care has been shown to have more concrete risks.Another study looked at surgeons who offered gender affirming procedures. Looking at 46 surgeons who had worked with 22,725 patients, there were only 62 documented cases of regret (0.27%)."

” Eight percent (8%) ofrespondents reported having de-transitioned atsome point. Most of those who de-transitioneddid so only temporarily: 62% of those who hadde-transitioned reported that they were currentlyliving full time in a gender different than thegender they were thought to be at birth....Respondents who had de-transitioned cited arange of reasons, though only 5% of those whohad de-transitioned reported that they had doneso because they realized that gender transitionwas not for them, representing 0.4% of the overallsample.42 The most common reason cited forde-transitioning was pressure from a parent(36%). Twenty-six percent (26%) reported thatthey de-transitioned due to pressure from otherfamily members, and 18% reported that they detransitioned because of pressure from their spouseor partner." (pg 115)

"Of 921 eligible patients, 374 were Holocaust survivors; 135 (14.6%) had attempted suicide in the month before admission"

"At the end of 2008, there were some 233,700 Holocaust survivors in Israel. The number ofsurvivors is decreasing and the projection for 2015 is 143,900 survivors and for 2025,approximately 46,900 survivors."

the light blue indicates "male children", and that has reached nearly 1800, in contrast, "female children" are marked in a tannish color and reach 1600. Clearly the unrepresentative graph doesn't agree with your conclusions. Also... this isn't a study... this is an anecdotal example as far as I can read - if you can find some other source that backs up your data then I'll accept the data. 

 Hm? I'm curious to know - furthermore - you've completely dropped the point that there are nearly as many old people who are transgender, like, you've just brushed that aside - even though you asked for it. 

While regret is possible, it is rare. Lack of access to affirming care has been shown to have more concrete risks.Another study looked at surgeons who offered gender affirming procedures. Looking at 46 surgeons who had worked with 22,725 patients, there were only 62 documented cases of regret (0.27%)."

Regarding the study - you are misrepresneting it - it is the suicidation of halocaust surviors AND WWII veterans - please do not misrepresent your own data like that - furthermore - it IS CERTAINLY not representative. Did you know that your study only measures 374 halocaust surivors? 

Oh my god - no - you are quite literally ignoring everything I've said, cutting out swawthes of context, and not overall repeating yourself. The reason trangender people do that is to feel that their SEX matches what is percieved of their GENDER - because guess what? People judge them BASED ON THAT! Gender dysphoria is a reaction to people, it is not, however, a status that transgender people have neccessarily. I do not think you are arguing in good faith, if you are, you are quite.. well ignorant. At least very bad at reading studies. 

What do you think of privatizing the police?

Again, you are either extremely bad at reading studies, or being dishonest.