@DrawGray This story uses someone who wanted something unobtainable along with a bunch of "things are like things" but we can't be sure if they would have been happy as a female tiger had science allowed and everything is like everything. Why people kill themselves can be completely unrelated to the perceived problem. I mean gay people kill themselves all the time. Its not because of the gay, not directly anyway. Suicide rates of a minority group being high is not surprising is it?
Point is that people break down even when they are "normal" for completely the same reasons. All the same issues are faced and all your left with is the understanding that everyone is the same. Lots of people make up idea's like wealth and power or beauty and hinge everything on it. The problem with those people is the same as anyone, they have a hole that they do not know how to fix. If however you have someone who has a hole they do know how to fix, why not try? People die all the time but many die for things people are actively doing because of reasons that do not have anything to do with what is best for said person.
You can make an equally if not stronger case for letting people do what they feel is right for them. Just choose someone who died and didn't get to transition despite wanting to. Explain all the torments coming from lack of acceptance and peer pressure along with all the media pushing and whatever else you can think of. This person claimed SRS doesn't work but they completely miss all the things that happen besides the SRS along with the cases where the person is indeed happy because that was the one thing they couldn't deal with.
There are people who have been broken and who we fail to or even cannot save at this point in time. There are also people we can totally save but who will die anyway. People who we have saved and who will now get to live a long happy life. Lots of different people out there and this comment oversimplifies the many things that would go into such an interesting lifestory with such a tragic end. Think of all the broken people who don't kill themselves. In my opinion its most of the world one way or another.
Anyway that post is a joke. Something made to sound reasonable to people who don't actually understand what they are reading and the topic at hand.