Transgender/transitioning young adults

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@Lynnski said:

I fear that some may be looking at death by one’s own actions as if this were some ultimate determininant of the value of one’s grievances or the reality of someone’s pain. Most of us have only the tiniest understanding of the reality of suicide for either the person who died or the bereaved who are left behind. People of all circumstances both consider and die by suicide. Lots of presumably cisgender people die by suicide, and we don’t use their deaths to justify the presumed absence of gender dysphoria or transition in their pain. Let’s not put the unknowable weight on suicidality on the experience of anyone—cis, trans, or unknown.

I’m actually not sure if I have understood your meaning here. However, a cursory review of the issue of suicide and transgender individuals was quite disconcerting.

Suicide attempts are alarmingly common among transgender individuals such as Lampe; **41% try to kill themselves at some point in their lives, compared with 4.6% of the general public. **The numbers come from a study by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute, which analyzed results from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. Researchers are preparing to launch another version of the online survey on Wednesday.

More than a dozen other surveys of transgender people worldwide since 2001 have found similarly high rates,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/16/transgender-individuals-face-high-rates–suicide-attempts/31626633/

It is well documented that LGBTQ+ students are at an increased risk for suicide. However, a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality estimated the transgender suicide rate to be almost nine times higher than that of the overall population. Our texters identifying as trans are 50% more likely to mention suicide in their conversations with us. Those identifying as transgender often face a unique set of challenges, such as lack of family support, social rejection, and difficulty of access to trans-specific healthcare, that increase their risk of suicide.

https://www.crisistextline.org/blog/change-the-stats

Articles and links to studies about suicide produced similar comments and statistics.
Of course cisgender people commit suicide, and of course it’s not always possible to assign any one precipitating factor. There is still so much we don’t know/understand about suicide, still so much yet to be learned about the transgender experience. But the fact that transgender suicide attempts so overwhelmingly outnumber those of non transgender people should be a red flag that calls attention to this problem, and transgender adolescents in particular may require additional support with these statistics in mind.