Why is it like that

Why is it that when we talk about how men have higher suicide rates we always talk about how much they struggle and we try to find ways to help them. The men's rights movement and all that stuff. But when we talk about about trans suicide rates is always THEIR fault?? Like they struggle a lot too, that's why it's so high, they face discrimination every fucking day. But somehow it's THEIR fault for being trans, while men suicide rate is EVERYONE ELSES fault and we have to fix it?????
Sounds weird to me but ok...
Bro just say u hate trans people and go, it's getting ridiculous.

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    Part of the problem is encouraging everyone who gets confused to go trans. If going trans worked so well for their depression they wouldnt have sky high suicide rates even after transitioning.

    Once they transition and god forbid cut their dick off and get a Frankenstein vagina hey look in the mirror they see they look ridiculous and not like the gender they wanted. On top of that everyone thinks theyre weird. People dont want to date them. The only place they fit in is a LGTB club and hanging around those people alone will increase suicide rates.

    If you cared so much about them you wouldnt lie to them and tell them its as easy as snapping your fingers and changing genders and you'll be happy and its brave. Its not it at all. The worst thing you can do is encourage it.

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    • They have high suicide rate bc of people that makes their life fucking impossible. That insults, harasses them every single day and bc of relatives and families and friends that are non supportive and kicks them out/ disowns them and beats the shit out of them from time to time u know. Also we always talk about suicide but haven't y'all also noticed how they are also easier targets when it comes to street agressions and being murdered on the street??
      Idk, think about that for a second.
      Also we don't encourage it, we just make it visible so people understand that it's something that happens sometimes and that if one of your friends/family are trans, you should love them regardless. That's all we wanna do. If u don't get it that's on you, sorry.

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      • LornaMae

        I wholeheartedly agree with the basic human rights perspective. Except most of the current user base of IIN has changed over the years and is populated by people who still think being trans is an aberration and refuse to accept that it's actually none of their business and not their place to judge what that community goes through.

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      • 1WeirdGuy

        If my kid turned trans the last thing i would do is support it and tell him hes a real girl and normal. "Here take these hormones, get the dick cutting surgery, this is totally normal and not weird at all. You're gonna be happy!" Naw, he's gonna be miserable like the other trans people. I dont advocate for bullying people but I can not change the world. No one thats not an SJW-LGTB member is gonna want to be seen hanging around them. The fact is the majority of people on this planet see it as an abomination. I actually feel bad for them and would be nice to them if I ever met them but this is the truth.

        You know this before you encourage someone to become trans.Idc what people over a certain age do they can knock themselves out with it. To be honest it infuriates me that this is coming to elementary schools and its absolutely being indoctrinated and normalized to young kids and it makes me sick.

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        • LornaMae

          You know what would happen to your kid if that happened? He'd find a chosen family where her choices would be welcomed and encouraged so she could live her best life and feel loved and validated, despite the shitty treatment she had from her family... it's classic. She would live in the outskirts of YOUR society but find a place where "different" is celebrated.The ONLY thing I agree with you on is that it's a hard process and their kin's treatment can be soul crushing. Do you want your daughter's soul to be crushed?

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          • LloydAsher

            You are basically encouraging your kid to fail if they say they are trans and are 100% accepting of it. Like it or not it's an abnormality that most people think it is terrible, because objectively it is.

            I see it as another form of anorexia. Not gonna tell an anorexic that they are right that they are fat. Why continue the delusion of being the other sex?

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          • 1WeirdGuy

            In my state it does not work like that. Not everyone lives in California or New York

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            • And you think having no where to go and being rejected by your family does not play a part on their high suicide rate?? You just admitted that yourself. There is no place for them, and they are just trying to exist.

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            • LornaMae

              She wouldn't have to go that far, I'm positive the awesome drag community in Nashville would take her in.

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    • Hubbard

      I was on board until you said lgbt people would make you suicidal

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      • 1WeirdGuy

        Its true, they have a negative outlook on the world and have a serious victim complex. If you hang out around people that have victim complex long enough you start to have it rub off on you.

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        • Correction

          It is true that victim complexes rub off on people. Anybody who’s ever been in a conservative city in a red state can attest to that, listening to them constantly whine and complain, blaming all of their problems and everything bad in society on anybody who doesn’t look like them. That kind of thinking doesn’t happen naturally, it’s learned from growing up around the negative outlook and victim mentality their parents had. Their parents got it from their parents, and now they’re passing it onto their kids and grandkids. I saw it first hand, I grew up in a house full of negative people in a neighborhood full of people who always felt like they were the victim. It took me a long time to overcome that kind of brainwashing.

          And you’re absolutely right that victim complexes lead to suicide. If you look up suicide rates by state it’s crazy how many red states are at the top of the list and how many blue states are at the bottom. And it’s no coincidence that men have a higher suicide rate than women and white people have a higher suicide rate than black people, hispanic people, or Asian people. What demographic loves to play the victim more than anybody else? White men.

          But being around LGBT people…negative outlooks? Leading to suicide? Lol. That’s the thing that saves people from suicide. Every single study that’s ever been done has shown that the single most important factor in preventing suicide is having a strong support system. For LGBT youth especially, even just have one single adult in their life that supports them is huge in preventing suicide.

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    • litelander8

      You could be supportive of their state of confusion and not support chemical or physical change.

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  • Vvaas

    it be like that sometimes

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  • litelander8

    Bro, just say you think trans people deserve special treatment and go.

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    • * basic human rights

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      • litelander8

        Anyone who wants to commit suicide is going to. Not everyone has insurance to see a medical professional or family to support them. Regardless of gender.

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        • I am not saying that other people don't want to commit suicide or that everyone else has it easy. What i am saying is, that trans lives are important, and the reason they end up commiting suicide almost every time is bc of an unsupportive enviroment, which is something we can all contribute to eliminate, just by being nice. Istg if we all just minded our own bussiness the world would be a better place.

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          • litelander8

            But you can’t control other people. You can’t tell other people to just be comfortable with it. Just like you don’t expect trans people to “just act normal”.

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            • Why is it uncomfortable in the first place? I really don't understand what is it that makes people so uncomfortable.
              They are just living???
              It's easy to just mind your bussiness i promise

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      • LornaMae

        Sadly, you're barking up the wrong website... :/ and also there's the biased reading comprehension issue.

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  • 1234tellmethatyoulovememore

    No one should kill themselves. Everyone is worthy of life and love. That's all I'm going to say.

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  • Sorry if u didn't understand what i meant.i am not saying men's issues are not important, i am saying that trans issues are equally important. And that there is a double standard when talking about suicide rates.
    People demonize trans people so much they end up taking their lives, as u said, the factors that aggravate their life are external, not bc they are trans, but bc people treat them poorly bc they are trans.
    Also, being talked about does not mean being talked about positively. As much as there is some good talk about trans people, there is much more rejection towards them. Seeing people debating your basic rights on the internet like it's just something not important affects your mental health.
    I have yet to see people debating men's rights as if it were something debatable.
    Men's issues are important, and i care about them a lot, of course i don't want men to suffer, damn.

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    • LornaMae

      That's exactly what I meant by reading comprehension bias.... All he read is "men do not deserve rights" and raised his flag for that.

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  • Also!!! I am up to debate (not really cause basic human rights shouldn't be debatable) however, if u express yourself in a hateful way i will hide your comment. This is not a trans witch hunting, this is literally the opposite. So be nice.

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    • Just wanted to add that evey comment that includes an slur said by someone who doesn't belong into the group that it belongs to will also be erased.
      Thank you

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  • bigbudchonger

    Firstly they don't. Often the feminists bring it up and covertley shit on men whilst doing it. Saying shit like the patriarchy and male social groups causes men to commit suicide.
    Secondly being a trangender is a choice, being a man isn't. Thirdly it's a way of telling people to stay away from taking that choice. And finally why do you guys assume everyone who disagrees with you "hates transgender people"?

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  • Somenormie

    I guess we'll never know why it's always like that.

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  • ThatGayBitch

    Unfortunately trans people have to pee and stuff :0
    If it's like a changing room i would understand that you might feel uncomfortable by it, the same way that trans person might feel uncomfortable on the changing room they don't identify with. What i would suggest in that case would be, making a third changing room, a genderneutral one that anyone can use at any moment and i think everyone would feel more comfortable that way.The bathroom stuff is something i don't understand still. Like, there are bathroom cubicles inside the bathroom, no one ever whips their genitalia out when they go to pee, specially trans people bc they can get assaulted for being there.
    They just want to pee bro, is not a big deal. They do their bussiness in the cubicle and u don't have to see a thing i promise.I sometimes am more concerned about the genitalia police, like why do u care so much about people's private parts??? I am more uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with someone who cares so much about my genitals u know. It's creepy.And if the issue you have with bathrooms is that, men can "dress up and pretend to be women" so they can spy on women, that's not tran's people's fault. That's predatory men's fault. Let's not get them mixed up. And if a man wants to be a perv he is going to be a perv regardless of who uses the bathroom. They don't care.It's not that they interfere in your life, we just live in the same planet earth and breathe the same air, is difficult to not interfere in no ones life if u are alive u know, since we live in society. Entering a bathroom to pee is not interfering in your life, is having a human necessity and taking care of it.
    Trans people usually don't go to bathrooms bc they get so terrorized by cis people in them they prefer to hold it in.
    How would u feel if just did not let you pee one day, just bc. Idk it's weird.And about the rest of the community, we are aware that there are some transphobe among us. Is not a secret. Trans people are the ones who get discriminated the most.What i would say is, it's okay to have a genital preference. If u only like one thing and not the other it's okay. And trans people understand that. If you tell them you won't date them bc you have a genital preference, if you tell them that you respect their identity but don't want to date them i promise, trans people understand, and they move on. They won't force u to date them.
    HOWEVER, if that trans person has fully transitioned (medical transition, operations and all that stuff) and you refuse to date them solely bc of the fact that they are trans, that is transphobic, bc it's not a genital preference.
    Hope that cleared things out.

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  • ThatGayBitch

    "Forced onto them" what does that mean? We just want to live our lives to the fullest, that's it.
    What u are saying, basically, is
    "I don't care if u are this way but don't show it cause it makes me uncomfortable"
    That's not accepting, that's pushing people down and make them fit into a norm YOU chose bc it's more comfortable for you to just not see it.
    We are not pushing, we are just living. Of course we want to change the world so we can feel more welcome in it. We have lived for centuries in a world that doesn't want us, doesn't like us and wants us to shut up and comply. It's not nice.Also, something i have noticed is that, you all see the lgbtq as this huge campaign that wants you to change your lifestyle completely and pressure u to fit into a norm you are not comfortable with.That's literally what you guys are doing. It's the same, what you are accusing us to do, is what you guys have been doing to us.The difference is that we, i swear to god i am talking as an lgbtq person, don't want you to change the way you live. You are cis? Then be cis! You are straight? Then be straight! I promise we don't give a fuck, fr. We Just want people to treat us with respect and have the same rights. No one is gonna force u to be a gender you are not, no one is gonna force you to marry someone you don't love.But that's what we have been forced to do all this time, and now that we don't look down and let it happen, it feels threatening for u, but i promise no one wants to hurt other people less than we do. We just want peace.

    About the doctor. It's not the first time they have done the surgeries poorly. We know they won't look the same, i am not talking about that. I'm talking about top surgery done wrong in purpose, the chest getting infected bc they didn't remove all the tissue on purpose, leaving big scars that weren't necessary at all, nipples in the wrong place, infections and bleeding.
    If it was a one time thing i could pass it as a mistake, but they have done it plenty of times. Even the trans organization in my country are now warning young trans people to go to a different doctor, because they always fuck up on purpose. It was not an accident.

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    • LornaMae

      I don't know what country you are in but I know in mine there's always been the affordability issue for a lot of trans people (mostly before the current visibility of LGBTQIA+ community and NGOs) so they'd end up getting underground industrial-grade silicone injections and implants that naturally botched the whole job. Anyway, I know it's not the point of the whole post but I like your arguments. Keep on fighting - bah, it's so sad that there's has to be a "fight"...

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  • ThatGayBitch

    Human rights have become political and it's not trans people's fault.
    Let's set as an example.
    Imagine you are a kid, back to school and all that crap. The bell rings and it's playtime. There are two kids that wanna play with you.
    One of them picks on you, calls you names, hits u etc.
    The other one would play with you, no kind of violence from their part, and it would just be generally more quiet and peaceful.
    Now i am asking you, who would you play with?
    I hope i am understanding you well but u said it bc you think lgbtq people are like a leftist political strategy or something. That's not the case. We just rather have someone who would not treat us poorly, and apparently, only the left (center sometimes i guess?) cares about their issues while the other people demonize them.

    We didn't make it political, it was them. Not every trans person/lgbtq person would be a leftist if the right cared about them. But they don't and that's why they find refuge there.

    The left doesn't care about us either but at least they pretend a bit lol.

    And about the denying, i thought it was an official thing, a law that was imposed on the usa but then again, I'm not from there so i honeslty don't really know if it ended up official or if they backed down. However, even if it's not by law, i have seen doctors make terrible "gender affirming surgeries" on purpose just to fuck with trans people. Leaving them scarred for life and unable to live their best lives (in my country).

    I know other people get kicked out of their homes too, but they don't get kicked out just bc of being trans. There is a difference. No one should be kicked out, but even less if the reason is "you are trans so i hate u"

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  • Sanara

    Because some people care more about whether someone can change their gender "for real" (why does that even matter so much?) than what would actually be the best for life quality for those people, when they simply cannot be happy with the sex they were born as. They cannot be 100% the gender they want to, but its still fair to let them transition as far as practically possible if thats what they want, and not be an asshole about it. However I dont agree with letting children transtition physically. And its also important trans people know the risks and side effects of taking a gender operation.

    I saw someone talking about their male to female operation on youtube, and it sounds terrible with the part of turning your penis into a vagina, as you essentially have to create a wound that you have to constantly poke into to keep it from closing. People should know that stuff, and maybe reconsider that part

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    • Transgender people are trans regardless of their medical transition. I agree with the "kids don't have to physically transition" of course. No one wants to let children transition, not even the community. Hormone blockers on the other hand, can be useful and (even tho i think they should really think it through and measure the consequences) they should be available. Bc if u end up being trans and u had hormone blockers it's easier to medically transition, and if u end up not being trans you just stop taking them and puberty will come naturally. But that's just my opinion.

      No one wants kids to make permanent choices, of course, so i agree with you.
      What i think is that, if they wanna try wearing different clothes, a different haircut, different name, just let them. And they will figure out if it was or not something temporary eventually.

      Is not hard to love your kid in all stages of their life.

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      • 1WeirdGuy

        I actually did abit of research a while back and found that the first study on puberty blockers for gender dysphory was only in 2020. Before that it was used only for prostate cancer and to slow puberty if it was started at a crazy age like 5. There still has been no long term studies suggesting if you quit taking it after puberty age there would be no perminate effects but I doubt it because at the very least you would be shorter because when men are puberty age they naturally have high levels of growth hormone and that with testosterone makes them grow taller. Taking that testosterone from them will at the least cause them to be shorter when they come off and will effect bone growth.

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        • That's why i said that they should really think it through and that it's a big decision to make. It can affect growth, but for some of them it might be worth trying. I won't choose for them, they have to choose themselves.

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      • Sanara

        I agree with that. Although I am a bit in doubt if them dressing like the opposite sex would directly lead to them getting bullied, and you dont really have the means to deal with the bullies themself

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        • Exactly what i mean.
          They get bullied.
          But hate is taught, no one is born with hate in their hearts.
          They might fear what is different for a second but the moment they realize it's not something bad, they wouldn't mind it one bit.
          What we have to do is normalize those situations. If they know it's not something bad, they won't bully them.
          We just have to teach them to respect people, that's it.

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  • ThatGayBitch

    For example there is people who can refuse to give them medical treatment bc they are trans. People still debate if they should be showed on tv, if their stories matter to be heard. They can get kicked out of their homes and jobs simply bc they are trans. And people disrespect them and their identity 24/7. Those are a few examples. They always treat them like freaks and predators and that's not the case. It obviously feels awful. And also the big pressure of fitting into the cisgender normativity. It's like, if u pass as a cis person people don't give a fuck, but if u don't pass they will make u live hell for it. Cis people want trans girls to be femenine and trans boys to be masculine and if they don't exactly comply into the norm they are called a faker, or they get accused of faking their trans identity, when in reality they should just be treated like everyone else bc it's not our bussiness.I don't know if u ever got discriminated against or bullied but it's something that really fucks u up. Kids at the age of 11 or 12 have committed suicide sometimes bc they have being bullied at school. Being bullied for being trans can have the same response. I think it's pretty obvious.

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  • LornaMae

    Jeezus, I couldn't have misunderstood what I didn't read and I clearly and promptly told you that. It's neither a matter of lying nor misunderstanding, it's more a matter of my own bias against you, sorry. ;)

    But since this exchange of ours has nothing to do with the matter at hand, we shouldn't take it any further.

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  • LornaMae

    I must admit I stopped reading at "men's issues", assumed what came next and replied without care...

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