A new LiveScience story examines the high rate of mental health problems in transgender kids and adolescents.
Based partially on a 2010 study that found 41 percent of trans* people in the U.S. have attempted suicide, the article examines how having a gender identity that doesn’t match one’s body can cause serious psychiatric complications.
Researchers attributed those rates to discrimination and stigma, as well as a lack of laws protecting transgender people from employment discrimination. Poor insurance coverage of hormones and other treatments to help a transgender person transition to their desired gender also account for the rates, the researchers found.
But the mismatch between mind and body alone can be a major source of psychological pain, Leibowitz said. Of 97 patients who came to the Endocrine Division for hormones and other treatments related to gender identity disorder between January 1998 and February 2010, 44.3 percent had significant mental health histories. Twenty percent had self-mutilated, and 9.3 percent had attempted suicide at least once. About 37 percent were taking psychiatric medication.
These are some pretty serious numbers, but it’s something we need to know if we’re going to address it properly. So - how do we address it properly?
How to address it properly?
Stop all of the offensive and terrible transphobic jokes that media is saturated with.
When all you ever hear is that you are fake, that nobody will ever see you as a real person, and that your very nature is a source of disgust and/or amusement, it’s pretty fucking hard to feel like there’s a reason to keep on living.
(is it bad that when I read the title, the first thing I thought was “HAHAHAHA this is news?”)
impoddity answered:
First, we stop calling gender identity a disorder. The majority have a bad habit of labeling any one who does not fit into their box ‘other’.
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alexandr22 answered:
we should just let em kill themselves there’s 7 billion people in the world less won’t be a bad thing.
urcrookdheart answered:
Keep advocating! Love is more powerful than hate.
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lilianlookingglass answered:
Education, education, education. It’s going to be a long-haul to get any progress, but it’s progress that needs to be made.
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One thing we could do is discuss how income and racial discrimination limit folks (and especially vulnerable teens)...
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make it necessary to get the healthcare we need in order to live happy ‘normal’ lives. make it easier. make it so that...
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reblogging because i actually cited this in the paper i just wrote about transphobia and homophobia that i may or may...
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djhirnriss answered:
Sorry,no I haven´t!!! I read article `bout 3 times!I can´t answer this question!
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foundbutforeverlost answered:
It’s all about acceptance I live in Utah and I say I am lesbian instead of explaining being trans it kind of sucks sometimes…
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mylittletown2100 answered:
Kill all the republicans
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Of course there’s a high suicide rate in trans teens. At all points in your life you look for acceptance, but during...
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*sighs* I’m not surprised at all…
paranoidactivity reblogged this from gaylienz and added:
Ok, this isn’t surprising in the least. What do you suggest we do??
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