bgz wrote:Maybe... but generally speaking, I try to base my opinions off numbers. I don't think I did a very good job arguing the numbers. I know 40% doesn't look like a very big number (I mean, who ever uses the number 40 percent as a selling point), but taking the subject matter into account, I think it's fugging huge. Lets put it this way...
Almost half of all transgendered people will attempt to commit suicide at some point in their life.
Thanks frank!!!
Got me to use muh werds.
I think 40% is a huge number, but I also think that it should at least be taken into consideration that many have endured bullying and other forms of prejudice in their formative years, so maybe the stats are not as clean for them as a "pure" group...cuz I think most would agree that bullied people may have high rates of attempted suicide or other behaviors that fall under the generic "depressed" category.
TW has been saying that as the years go by, more becomes known and understood about how they "happen", less sensationalism, etc., it's likely that this era will be recalled much the same way as the times in history that it was unthinkable for Blacks, Asians, gays to ever be accepted at all, never mind the military.
I'd be outraged if one entered the military as a means to secure financed surgery, but I am equally amazed that no one is able to believe that even people so different than the rest of us couldn't truly be Patriots willing to die for the country they love, the country where all are granted the same rights...on paper anyway (or was it parchment?)