News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-divers... by ceejayoz on Saturday August 15, 2020 @10:22PM (#24174319)
Abused children also have high suicide rates, but that's presumably not because of some inherent internal tendency to suicide, right?
Re:Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-divers... by bobthechef on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:18PM (#24174680)
Not a question of inherent tendency but cause of. Those who have elected to adapt to their convictions through surgery, hormones, etc. still have very high suicide rates. The studies (I don’t have them handy) undermine the notion that the increased risk and incidence of suicide of “pre-transition” individuals with gender dysphoria are suicidal because they’re “forced” to live in a way that seems to then to be at odds with how they feel. But we find that “post-transition” we still see high rates. Some claim that this is because of the environment, but I believe that was also addressed and found unconvincing.

On the other hand, I have heard therapy for gender dysphoria (GD), such as that which addresses GD in children, can be highly effective in resolving whatever issues that are causing the confusion in the first place.

Re:Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-divers... by joshuamorton on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:34PM (#24174792)
> But we find that “post-transition” we still see high rates

But lower than pre-transition.

> but I believe that was also addressed and found unconvincing.

I can't say I understand how a paper would account for systemic discrimination, but even if they did so successfully, treatments for most things don't have 100% rates of success.

> On the other hand, I have heard therapy for gender dysphoria (GD)

Yes, and this is normally part of treatment for GD for anyone. It just very often doesn't work.

Re:Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-divers... by odessacubbage on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:50AM (#24176762)
41% meme aside, we really do not have good data for this yet imo, the life experience of someone who transitions at 25+ with little to no support and someone who never even went through the puberty of their birth gender and had a supporting family/school etc is so dramatically different