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When you hear about high suicide rates among trans people never forget that it is a policy choice. One in ten trans youth attempted suicide in the past year not because of who they are but because of how a transphobic society treats them. The kids are not what's broken.

Roughly 70 percent of transgender and questioning students reported feeling persistent sadness or hopelessness for a period of more than two weeks in the past year, compared with half of cisgender girls and 26 percent of cisgender boys. Ten percent of transgender students reported receiving medical treatment from a doctor or nurse for a suicide attempt in the past year, compared with 2.6 percent of cisgender girls and 1 percent of cisgender boys.

Transgender students were also much more likely to experience bullying and isolation at school. Just 37 percent of these students reported feeling close to others at school, versus 62 percent of boys and about half of girls. And they were five times as likely to report having unstable housing in the past month.
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That's the new Times article? The mention, but don't sufficiently emphasize, state-sponsored violence (legislation) against trans people.

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Post hoc non est proper hoc

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