WaPo Found A Lot Of Happy Transgender People, If You Don’t Count Those Who’ve Committed Suicide

[Kamaji]

Washington Post Found A Lot Of Happy Transgender People, If You Don’t Count Those Who’ve Committed Suicide

Like every other one of the media’s new ‘findings’ that fly in the face of common sense and reality, it’s nonsense.

BY: EDDIE SCARRY
MARCH 23, 2023

The Washington Post must be very proud of itself for tackling one of the biggest problems with the transgender debate (lack of data) and concocting a chipper outcome (most trans people are happy!).

On Thursday the paper published what it called “one of the largest randomized samples of U.S. transgender adults to date about their childhoods, feelings and lives.” The survey took place last year from Nov. 10 to Dec. 1, among 515 U.S. adults who identify as trans and another 823 U.S. adults who did not.

There were a lot of depressing statistics about respondents who are less likely than regular people to say their childhoods were happy and who are more likely to say they often feel anxious. But the ultimate takeaway was that the vast majority of those who said they had “transitioned” away from their natural sex, 78 percent, were “more satisfied” with their lives than before the transition process.

That’s great news for the Post and the rest of the national media trans-champions because it would mean that all the concern and controversy over people who want to irreversibly alter their bodies and appearances with hormones and surgical operations is about nothing!

See? This isn’t about mental illness. Transitioning is real and they’re happier for it!

Like every other one of the media’s new “findings” that fly in the face of common sense and reality (poor diet and lack of exercise have absolutely no bearing on Covid-related morbidity!), it’s nonsense.

Virtually everything about the survey renders it useless, starting with the way it defined “transition.” The Post, in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation, set up the survey so that “transgender” includes anyone from those who have undergone surgical operations (just over 15 percent) down to a person who simply says, “I’m transgender,” regardless of whether he does anything at all that distinguishes him from a regular man. By that standard, Janelle Monae, a beautiful actress whose sex is unambiguous in every way, is “transgender,” solely because she calls herself “nonbinary.” (Look! Another wholly satisfied trans person!)

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Over the course of 30 years, six Swedish doctors and scientists tracked the outcomes of 324 transgender people who had received sex surgeries — 191 male subjects and 133 female subjects. Each subject was cross-referenced with 10 random control subjects of the sex that the trans subject was impersonating. For example, a woman would be a control subject for a man who had had surgery to make himself look more like a woman.

The results were devastating.

Subjects who underwent surgery were more likely than the control subjects to receive inpatient care for a psychiatric disorder, to be convicted of a crime, and to develop cardiovascular disease. The mortality rate by suicide was most striking: Transgender subjects were roughly 20 times more likely to have committed suicide within 10 years of their operations.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/23/washington-post-found-a-lot-of-happy-transgender-people-if-you-dont-count-those-whove-committed-suicide/

[Smokin Joe]

Y'all are missing the point.

Either way, they're likely to vote Democrat.

[mountaineer]

But it's not a mental illness, or anything:

The actress Ellen "Eliot" Page has revealed to the Los Angeles Times that she realized she was "transgender" when she started hearing and then talking to a voice in her head, following a psychotic episode of self-harm. Days later a doctor gave approval for her breasts to be removed.

... But alone in the stillness, Page started to crack. All of the self-hatred he’d been pushing down for years — the discomfort he felt in his body, the anger toward those who’d told him to repress his identity — spilled out.

One night, he tried to knock himself out. Took his knuckles to his face and pounded over and over until bruises formed. For days after, he sat in a lawn chair on the porch, ashamed, his face sore. And then he heard a voice.

“You don’t have to feel this way.”

It was a small voice, barely discernible. But it kept echoing in his head. A way out.

“It was as if something in my brain turned around,” recalls Page, now 36. “The agonizing voice saying, ‘No, you’re not,’ ‘No, you can’t’ just switched and became very gentle and loving. ‘Oh, maybe I’m trans. Why don’t I explore that?’”  ...

Rest of story at L.A. Times