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Is good they are "having the conversation." Not so good the show was so one-sided. Maybe they balanced it with others. First thought when Cuomo gave the trans 'considered suicide' stat of 52% was to ask why WHY? I think many would think the suicide was considered because they had transitioned somewhat and regretted it. Am guessing many watching that show wouldn't even fully understand what it means to say someone is a trans child. Guessing, because so many on hearing something like, Oh look a trannie! would picture someone who has transitioned in some way already. I'm guessing many watching that show would think a trans child was someone who had started a transition process. A child who has taken some steps to transition. So, that many would on seeing Cuomo give the considered suicide stat as he did, without any of the why, would think it meant 52% thought suicide because they regretted a transition step. Whereas in fact it isn't that at all. A trans child is simply one who doesn't identify with their birth assigned sex.

Transgender youth are children or adolescents who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_youth

So to the why? Why the seemingly high rate of suicide among trans youth. Not because of regret, but because of the way society looks at them. Because of loneliness. Because of feelings of rejection. That's the why for that 52% considered suicide rate.

‘Terrible Time For Trans Youth:’ New Survey Spotlights Suicide Attempts — And Hope

Dawn EnnisFormer Contributor
I report on the fight for transgender equality and other LGBTQ issues.

May 19, 2021,09:08am EDT


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The numbers are stark, worrisome and should set off alarm bells: 52% of all transgender and nonbinary young people in the U.S. seriously contemplated killing themselves in 2020. More than half thought it would be better to be dead, rather than trying to live with rejection, isolation, loneliness, bullying and being targeted by politicians and activists pushing anti-trans legislation.

Those are among the findings in The Trevor Project’s third annual National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, released Wednesday. But along with those grim statistics, it also concludes that America’s lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and queer young people have still found joy, even at their lowest moments, even amid an identity-crushing pandemic.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2021/05/19/terrible-time-for-trans-youth-new-survey-spotlights-suicide-spike---and-hope/?sh=524637b8716e

i have 5-6 articles i intended to post eventually to others put up before. More than one of them mention the two psychologists featured in that News Nation program. Now i'll make one of them my next post.

PS: So re that News Nation show. I'm not questioning Cuomo and McHugh's expressed concern
about the issue and the children, but wonder if a show like that wouldn't do more harm than good.