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[-] Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Suicide attempts and ideation among transgender people receiving gender affirming treatment is still very high compared to the general population.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago

Yeah, when you live in a society that treats you like shit for an immutable characteristic that tends to happen. It’s called minority stress, and it happens to cis queer people as well.

[-] Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I totally agree and it sucks that people are like that. I was just responding to the argument that any treatment is worth it when the alternative is suicide, because studies range from showing HRT helps a little to not at all at preventing suicide.

Trans people just need to be loved and accepted like everyone else but unfortunately a lot of people really suck.

was just responding to the argument that any treatment is worth it when the alternative is suicide

That's not the argument.....

The argument is that treatment plans are developed by evaluating risk and reward.

The risk for not treating is very high, even if the treatment doesn't have a high rate of efficacy as long as it doesn't introduce further risk, it's still a valid treatment.

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