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> "Always be surrounded by love..." unless you are gay. Gay, trans, atheist, feminist, brown, an opioid addict, a questioner of authority, or otherwise different.

Or a middle-aged white man. https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/

>>whitep+(OP)
Comparing the suicide rate of those groups with middle aged white men (adjusted for the population size) is a bit silly. Some sources point to 40% of trans people having attempted suicide, and I don't think 40% of middle aged men have attempted suicide.

In absolute numbers the suicide rate among men is an epidemic, but it's not fair to equate the two populations...

>>sergio+bb
Uh. Ok so one groups rate of successful suicide is more important than the others. Gotcha. At least we can agree that it is an epidemic among white middle aged men.

>>flippi+9j
The mentioned statistics are not comparable, so there is no "more importance" regarding this.

>>ruszki+Hk
As if.

>>sergio+bb
Comparing rate of suicide to frequency of suicide attempts is dishonest. Histrionics grossly inflate the "attempt" rate. The most-dramatic demographic (teenagers) only succeeds 15% of the time, with 12.4% of teenaged girls attempting (5.3% for boys). Anything qualifies!

I've got one who "attempted" suicide as a fucking negotiation tactic-- literally, "give me what I want or I'll kill myself." She's not trans, just Karen incarnate, and had no problems appropriating their "life-affirming care" argument to secure concessions for herself.

Small wonder these numbers are so high-- it's a bullshit metric.

>>whitep+(OP)
Middle aged white men can be almost any of those things I listed.

It floors me that you aren't flagged.

Not because you mentioned middle aged white men (which I am), but because I am talking about reasons people get kicked out of the usually conservative communities they grow up in. Being a middle aged white man is not one of those reasons.

Middle aged white men can choose their community. Being an atheist I was kicked out of mine.

There's a difference between not choosing a community and not being welcome in it.

Your response reeks of "white lives matter" to me.

>>hayst4+Ql2
You try to measure the levels of suffering based on sex, race and sexual orientation. That is why you will not be taken seriously by people who think.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gay+pride - that looks like there is no community for feminists, gay and trans?

You mentioning you being an atheist is just a cherry on top.

>>jstarf+bU1
Fwiw, sometimes they follow through.