"Poor exercise and diet can considerably contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes"
"ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT. And I can prove it. There are plenty of people that eat healthy and get exercise that still struggle with type 1 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes, like people with type 2 diabetes, aren't impacted by their diet and lifestyle."
The brainrot is real. One of the dumbest things I've read in a while.
False equivalence. Yes, the brainrot is real.
The suicidal behavior and suicide attempt rates are reported to be significantly high among transgender persons compared to general population across the countries. Thirty-one percent of transgender persons in India end their life by committing suicide, and 50% of them have attempted for suicide at least once before their 20th birthday; however, the exact prevalence of completed suicide among transgender persons in the country remain undocumented. Forty-one percent of the transgender persons in the United States attempt for suicide at least once in their life. In San Francisco, the prevalence of attempted suicide among transgender persons is 32%, among young age (<25 years) it is 50%. Suicidality and self-harm behavior are serious problems among sexual minorities in Japan. Transgender persons are at higher risk for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts at Virginia. Fifty percent of transgender persons in Australia have attempted suicide at least once in their lives. In England, 48% of the transgender young people had attempted suicide at least once in their lives. The prevalence of suicide remains high among transgender persons irrespective of disclosing their transgender status to others and undergoing sex reassignment surgery.
Wow. You managed to find a study that shows that transgender suicide attempts in San Francisco, a beacon of acceptance and progressive tolerance, has the same higher-end suicide rate as... India.
...You somehow think this is helping your argument? When you just proved my argument for me?
Netherlands only study, nothing to disprove my claims. Unless you want to argue the Netherlands is a bastion of anti-trans hate.
Hollywood only study focusing on only 99 transwomen. Suicide rate is also comparable with the above figures of the low-end range of San Francisco.
Nothing to disprove my argument.
Year long study among Ontario with 380 reports with an 11.2% reported suicide rate. The lowest yet. And the same study also claims that completed suicide attempts is unknown (...fucking how?).
Ah, but there's a catch:
Studies in Canada, Europe, and the United States have reported suicide attempt prevalences within the trans population that range from 22 to 43 % over the lifetime and 9 to 10 % for the past year
...So the 11.2% attempted suicide rate for the past year is actually higher than the average of Canada/Europe/United States in this case. Whoops.
Wow, you found one study that, kind of, agrees with your biases (if you squint hard enough) and now correlation = causation?
Not kind of. Does. And I'm stating what the evidence points to.
Even though there's plenty of other (often larger) studies that suggest the opposite:
https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00568-1/fulltext
Hormone therapy only study. Not applicable. Did you... not read it?
Also some interesting tidbits from that study:
However, thus far, there are no large-scale studies comparing mental health and suicidality among transgender and nonbinary youth who wanted GAHT and received it to those who wanted it but did not receive it
Chi-squared tests of independence were used to compare the 9,019 youth who had GAHT data to the 2,895 who did not. There were no significant differences within sexual identity, socioeconomic status, census region, gender identity support from parents, gender identity-based victimization, or GICE.
Repeat source.
Also, interesting tidbits:
The prevalence of suicide remains high among transgender persons irrespective of disclosing their transgender status to others and undergoing sex reassignment surgery.
The psychological autopsy of the completed suicides among transgender persons has revealed that the factors such as break-up of love relationship initiated by the partner (64.3%), serious altercations with family members (14.3%), refusal of gender/sex reassignment by the family members (9.5%), financial problems (9.5%), being diagnosed with HIV positive in the past few days/weeks (2.4%) have triggered the act of suicide among the victims.
Another repeat source (you're getting even lazier).
Problem here.
inally, we found that among those reporting a need to medically transition through hormones and/or surgeries, suicidality was substantially reduced among those who had completed a medical transition (this involved varying procedures based on personal needs [16]). Despite potentially large reductions in risk for those completing medical transition, the period of being in process did not represent a clear mid-point in risk. While suicidal ideation was significantly reduced for those in process versus those who were planning to transition but had not begun, among the sub-group considering suicide the attempt rate was highest among those in process.
The study does not state what percentage or decrease this does. And the study it's referencing does not either.
104 person study and not about surgical transitions.
Prevalence rates on suicidal attempts in trans people, which are generally observed to be lower than suicidal ideation, showed to be lower but also with a wide variation in reported rates, ranging from 9.8% up to 44%. Since structured prevalence studies on suicide deaths are lacking in the transgender literature, an estimation comes from a limited number of studies reporting on suicide death rates in small study samples. Derived from a systematic review on suicidality in trans people by Marshall et al., suicide death rates varied from 0% to 4.2% in a sample of 24 post‐treatment trans people from Sweden. Six of these studies only included postsurgical people whereas two studies also included trans people who were only using hormones without surgery. However, studies differentiating the treatment stage during which death by suicide occurred are lacking. In addition, studies differentiating between suicide in trans women and trans men are scarce.
Wow. Sample size of... 24 people... and even the study itself admitting there's not enough data to do a proper statistical analysis. Impressive.
And hey... weren't you claiming that the surgery is causing suicide? Now you're saying that suicide rates after surgery are the same or worse? Which one is it? How can they be causing suicide if the rates stay the same?
And how can the surgery be helping when it's the same suicide rate or worse?
You can't have this cake and eat it as well.
And do you actually want to read through that article you linked? All sampled participants in the study went through GAS. Where's the sample of the population that didn't receive GAS represented in this study? Oh, they're not there. Because this study does nothing to show the suicide risk of GAS patients vs non-GAS patients. You literally just looked for the first result that had something along the lines of "increase in risk after surgery" and scooped it up.
Considering I just went through your entire rapid-fire attempt of sources and none of them actually back you up or disprove me... Hollow words.
And you notice how there's actually a decrease in psychiatric risk in phalloplasty surgery patients? And no significant increase in psychiatric risk in vaginoplasty surgery? Only increased risk in suicide?
"Only" increased suicide risk.
Only.
We could fill the Marianas Trench with scientific studies and you still wouldn't be any closer to understanding the topic since you're clearly scientifically illiterate. All you have are gish gallops and misrepresentations of statistics that you don't have the training to parse.
"Gish gallops
"MIsrepresentation of statistics"
"Scientifically illiterate"
The movie theater is calling, they want their projectionist back.
The evidence has been conclusive for decades: gender affirmative care is the most and only effective treatment we have for dysphoria to date. Denying that care when it is wanted only causes harm. It's not up for debate within the scientific community.
I'm sorry, was I mentioning gender affirming care as a whole? No? Then straw man argument.
