#thered be thousands of potential studies with different answers for who is 'the most abused / suicidal'

[transmandrake]

It's really particularly ghoulish how much trans suicide / abuse rate studies gets tossed back and forth by the 'community'.

Super fucking cruel and dehumanising to reduce something so dire into evidence for or against 'which flavor of trans person is the most oppressed and needs to be listened to over the other'.

Kind of revealing ime that this isn't really about queer rights or mental health but just like. A fucking slap fight. That one side will 'win'. And I guess the other shuts up and dies quieter.

Damn really trans men are the most likely to be suicidal / commit suicide? Makes perfect sense to me I know how invisibility kills. I know without other queer people I would have no one I'd feel safe to talk to who I trust to not make it gendered or use my vulnerability to try and turn me away from manhood or force me to conform to it.

Damn really trans women are the most likely to be physically abused and murdered? Makes perfect sense. Transmisogyny is dire and allows systemic violence to occur without repercussion more frequently than other trans people or cis women.

If you use these studies as fucking tit-for-tat fight winning material, you are reducing the lives of other trans people to fucking numbers to prove your fucking point. Do you feel good? Do you win? Do we win. Have the numbers gone down. I don't fucking think they will.