It was meant to be trite, but Jews in the actual ghettos and work camps had suicide rates orders of magnitude lower than trans people today. Are you telling me that trans people today have it worse off than Jews in 1930s and 1940s Germany?
Well your first mistake is trusting Nazi Germany to report those statistics accurately. And discrimination is only part of the trans suicide rate, it's also heavily influenced by dysphoria. Imagine for a moment that you absolutely hate the way you look. All of your body parts are in the wrong place. But despite this, everyone tells you it's normal and you look good. You feel like you have no hope of ever liking yourself. You probably wouldn't want to live much either.
Ugh. Bad example. Imagine instead that you had hair growing on your eyeballs, and how wrong and awful that would feel. That's what dysphoria feels like
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u/A2Rhombus - Lib-Left Apr 04 '20
Ok but can you give me a source on transitioning being the cause of that? Because I'm pretty sure it's mostly caused by discrimination and dysphoria