Politicians’ Response to Transgenders Is Likely to Increase Suicides
It’s nearly a year after the suicide of Josh Alcorn (who called himself Leelah), the 17-year-old Ohio transgender who stood in front of a moving tractor-trailer. Alcorn’s death was a tragic failure on so many levels.
Who knows what caused the teenager such deep depression? According to Suicide.org, untreated mental illness is the key factor in 90 percent of all suicides, with depression being the leading cause.
The findings of two recent studies help to explain the cause of transgender gender depression, known as gender dysphoria. The findings offer a reason why transgenders claim their cross-gender thoughts and emotions cannot be controlled and why they feel the need for cross-gender behavior and social interactions.
As Debra Soh wrote on Monday in the Wall Street Journal, “Of the boys and girls seen in clinics like Dr. Zucker’s, a high percentage — up to 80% in a study of 44 gender-dysphoric boys — grow up to be not transgender, but bisexual, gay or lesbian adults. Thus, helping prepubescent children feel comfortable in their birth sex makes more sense than starting a lifetime of hormonal treatments and surgeries that will in all likelihood turn out to be unnecessary and unwanted.”
Politics, Soh says, is keeping doctors like Kenneth Zucker from carrying out the best-known treatments for those afflicted with transgender thoughts. This means activists are inflicting more suffering on afflicted people, including children, rather than acknowledging all the available research and experience that can help alleviate their pain.
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