Originally Posted by
Julio3000
It seems to me that you’re still ducking the issue that what Shapiro was asserting is directly contradicting the study he cited.
He says there’s no difference in suicide rate (forget for a second that he’s conflating suicide rate with suicide attempt rate, which is a fatal flaw in and of itself) along the spectrum of cultural and legal acceptance, which is, again, NOT WHAT THE STUDY SAYS. If you’re going to pull that first highlighted quote from the synopsis, you should include the rest of the sentence.
Adopting his approach, societally, leads to significantly worse mental health outcomes for transgender people. Why, then, should that be our approach, particularly because it’s based on the idea that gender=sex, which may have currency among his particular ideological subset, but reflects neither universal historical norms (as he claims) nor scientific consensus. As a corollary—why do we care? For someone whom you’re saying isn’t “othering” people, why is it so doggone important to say “you are what I say you are, which is sick and in need of help. No offense, though.”
It’s just a strange take, particularly if you know any trans folk.