I asked the same question and really I couldn’t find any studies or evidence of the high suicide rate. Most studies only talk about suicidal tendencies which can be as much as someone thinking about suicide. It’s kinda wild how no one has actually questioned the science behind most of this which is very shaky.

This comment might be controversial but high school dating pool does not transfer over to adult dating pool. Heck, even early adult dating pool might be completely different to late 20s dating pool.

Does it mean you will find no one? No. But in reality dating pool will probably get smaller in your late 20s and onwards. At that age, many people look for a provider and someone to reproduce with. Yes you can still find ways to do this with modern technology but there’s no denying it’s much easier and cheaper with the “traditional” way. Many queer women do end up with men for this reason. I am saying this as a queer woman myself.

The dating pool that will remain at this age will be mostly very queer-identified people. For me, I was mostly attracted to straight women and women who were not obviously queer so for me I wouldn’t have found someone in that pool. If you don’t mind that though, that’s up to you.

But small dating pool is not always a huge problem. After all, you only need to find one person should wants to be with you.

I agree. I actually don’t even think he’s trans (yes I don’t refer to him with those pronouns because I don’t think he is possibly trans). He basically seems to have zero gender dysphoria. Actual trans women don’t purposefully draw attention to their genitals and masculine body. He doesn’t even try to pass and he has the money to actually do so but he won’t because he is not really trans.

Muslims are individual as anyone and no one can tell you what this guy would think because he is an individual. If he’s a practicing Muslim, he can’t date you. Period. Because practicing Muslims only do courtship with the intention of marriage. Then if he is practicing he’d likely want you to convert sooner or later. If he’s not practicing, and just “Muslim by name” then his religion probably does not factor much into life choices, and it would be probably a personal preference. Depending whether he is local (born in your country) or foreign may change factors a lot. If he’s foreign, he may not even understand what detransitioning is and I’d probably not even bother trying to explain it and just say some medication you used to take gave you some lingering side effects.

Yes, like how are these studies measuring “suicide attempt”? If it is just self-report (which I have personally only seen) then the data is very unreliable. And should not be used to inform care, particularly involving very risky medical procedures , permanent sterilisation etc. Any researcher knows that self-report data is very unreliable and cannot lead to conclusions, particularly regarding cause and effect relationship.

I was literally taught that trans people need to be transitioned or they generally kill themselves. This was 10 years ago when I just took everything at face value. but now I just don’t see that data.

Thanks. So (based on one study which is nowhere near enough to come to valid conclusion), 0.8% of the sample trans women died by suicide and 0.25% of the trans men died by suicide. Definitely higher than the average population but I don’t think it’s matching up with the hysteria being pushed and huge tax payer expenditure. Not to mention, doesn’t conclude that transitioning prevents suicide. I hazard to guess there are populations with much higher suicide rates.

I’m not sure what you mean but when I say that, I mean bio-males who feel genuine gender dysphoria and choose to be trans. I don’t mean grifters or that they are actual women (as I don’t believe we can actually believe in truly transitioning gender).

I mean trans people who have actually killed themselves. I know they exist but where is the data? Like the whole reason the medical industry is so pro-affirmation is because they say if you don’t affirm, there will basically be dead bodies. But no data of people who have actually killed themselves? It seems odd they believe in sterilisation, huge tax payer expenditure etc because someone someone is thinking about killing themselves. Heck, I was 99% convinced I would kill myself when I was younger but don’t think sterilising myself and destroying my ability to pass as female would have made things better.

Eh, this is honestly above how much I care. There are people literally dying from genocides and people who can’t get medical treatment for many other conditions. I won’t call a guy who literally does the most to attract attention his genitals an « actually trans woman » but someone who actually does seem to feel distress around their birth sex, I will at least admit has some kind of psychological pathology outside their control. I don’t consider anyone who has the slightest bit of discomfort around gender roles « trans ». That’s going too far and I honestly don’t think we should be encouraging or validating that.

Yeah but seriously, you’d think an actual doctor would at least mention research limitations, and both sides of the coin etc. He has not at all mentioned the fact that the existing data is very limited. He hasn’t mentioned any meta-analyses which would normal be the gold standard in medical research. He hasn’t mentioned ANY side effects. It’s very concerning a doctor is making this video as he doesn’t even need to as he doesn’t even provide the treatments.