[quote]Way to completly skate around the issue mate. I care more about the transgender community that you do. Which is why I raise awareness for them and their ever increasing suicide rate. It's sad and it's a mental illness and they need help. But everyone wants to keep running around yelling "it's normal you bigot!" which doesnt help them at all. [/quote] Oh so your a transgender activist “raising awareness”? Please. Do you wonder why the rates of suicide might be higher among transgender people? You don’t think it might have something to do with people constantly treating them like second class citizens? Telling them they are disgusting, deluded, mentally ill? Constantly hearing “there is only two genders” to the point that it’s become a meme? Being bullied, assaulted, and in extreme cases murdered just for being transgender? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2019/11/18/murdered-hanged-and-lynched-331-trans-people-killed-this-year/amp/ Do you think all that might effect the mental health of transgender people? As opposed to, you know, treating them with respect and dignity? https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-truth-about-exercise-addiction/201612/why-transgender-people-experience-more-mental-health?amp [quote]Individuals who identify as transgender tend to experience higher rates of mental health issues than the general population. While approximately 6.7 percent of the general U.S. population suffers from depression and 18 percent grapple with some iteration of an anxiety disorder, nearly half of all individuals who identify as transgender experience these issues. What's more, over 41 percent of trans men and women are estimated to have attempted suicide — a rate that's nearly nine times as high as the rate of cisgender Americans.  [b][u]What underlies this astonishingly elevated rate of mental health issues? According to a study published in the July 2016 edition of The Lancet offers significant evidence that the "distress and impairment, considered essential characteristics of mental disorders" among transgender individuals primarily arises in response to the discrimination, stigma, lack of acceptance, and abuse they face on an unfortunately regular basis.[/u][/b] Psychologists have been documenting the effect that stigma, rejection, discrimination, and abuse have on mental and physical health for decades. As the American Psychological Association pointed out in its March 2016 report on the impact of discrimination, "for many adults, dealing with discrimination results in a state of heightened vigilance and changes in behavior, which in itself can trigger stress responses—that is, even the anticipation of discrimination is sufficient to cause people to become stressed." They add that "adults who are LGBT who have experienced discrimination have average stress levels of 6.4, compared to 6.0 for LGBT adults overall." In addition to the fact that "among adults who are non-LGBT, stress levels are 5.5 for those who have experienced discrimination and 5.0 for non-LGBT adults overall."[/quote]

See I was right. Over 40% of these people commit suicide. And yeah I like to raise awareness about that fact because it shows there is serious mental health problems with transgenders that need to be addressed. To blame all of that on bullying is pathetic. No one is going around bullying them anymore than anyone else. Hell I'd bet people who oppose it get bullied more! In my opinion the ones that cheer them on over social media do the most damage. They reinforce their self destructive behavior and actions while deep down disagree and would never associate with a transgender person. I bet you wouldnt date a transgender person.... and I bet you're not friends with one either.... yet you cheer them on online to try and seem holier than thou.

[quote]Way to completly skate around the issue mate. I care more about the transgender community that you do. Which is why I raise awareness for them and their ever increasing suicide rate. It's sad and it's a mental illness and they need help. But everyone wants to keep running around yelling "it's normal you bigot!" which doesnt help them at all. Actually does the opposite. And btw gay guys arent walking into the girls bathroom trying to expose themselves to young girls. I'm opposed to putting kids at risk, period. And you should too.[/quote] While, yes it is a mental health issue, the treatment for it [i]is[/i] changing gender/sex. https://www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/fact_sheets/Gender_dysphoria/ This discussion around people going through gender dysphoria as if they are sick perverse pedophiles who are out to sneak into children’s bathrooms is why so many of them do decide to take their lives. How helpful is it to someone going through an identity crisis telling them that their head is -blam!-ed & the only way to not be a pedophile is to stick with an identity that they find to be torture? Not very.