Do you believe the main reason why the LGBT community or people have a higher rate of suicide than non-LGBT people is because people bully them?

[Anonymous]

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I believe it’s true in just about any country LGBT people are more likely to be targets for crimes and bullying both offline and online.

[lightbulb27]

because their brains/hormonal makeup is different than most of society, so they feel left out,, constantly attacked and thus bullied. Bully is some of it... it probably feels like gaslighting or other emotional assault.

They feel rejected, maybe shame or fear. It's difficult when you are different from others.

They have to learn to embrace whom they are and not easy when their view is so different... just in terms used to define themselves.

[Anonymous]

As far as trans people go, many of them will grow out of it and regret what they have done to their body.

The mainstream media won't tell you this but it happens all the time and there is a growing detransitioning movement.

[MrKinktastic]

We are told we are broken, sick and wrong and that there is nowhere we belong. When we reach out for help we are gaslit and blamed for our sexual preferences. Naturally the more vulnerable among us stop fighting it eventually and just give up.


This is why it is so important for us to build our own communities where we can be accepted as we are. The mainstream will take far too long to come around and we need support now.

[rigmarole]

They have higher rates of childhood sexual abuse. They have higher rates of drug abuse. They have higher rates of mental illness. They are often on bad terms with their family. There aren't many gay people around, so they obviously have a hard time finding someone to connect with. Bullying is the least of their problems...

[jennifer_bloom]

I think its because they don't feel comfortable in their non binary condition and that discomfort registers in harmful impulses such as depression or voyeurism or emotional over dependency on others or in an endless quest for attainment and materialism.

[inhua]

most transgenders realize the grass isn't always greener on the other side

once women transition into men they realize how much difficult their lives become because society treats like a man instead of a woman and this is too much for them to handle thus they commit suicide

Norah Vincent just pretended to be a man and she committed suicide after finding out how difficult life as a man was

[Anonymous]

Nope. The suicide rate is higher than Jews in Nazi Germany and black people in American slavery. If bullying was the cause of their suicide it would be lower than that. The problem is mental illness and society telling them that they need to alter their bodies to find happiness. Yet when they do this and realize that they are still unhappy and now their bodies have been destroyed and their bank accounts drained with no hope of going back to the person that they were. It kinda makes sense why the suicide rate is higher after transitioning than before. Also can we stop lumping in the Ls the Gs and the Bs in with the T community? It may have made sense at first but now it is just a farce to include the two groups together.

[Drewtate]

Probably mental health issues related to why they are lgbtq. I mean homosexual men and transgender not all the other various sexualties like non binary gender fluid demisexual that allow straight mostly college women to join the LGBTQ.

[jshm2]

No. they are just delusional people. When it dawns on them that we're just sympathising with them in the same way you just put up with crazy uncle John for pity, it's when they end themselves.

[FunkyMonkee]

No, because they are SO much more accepted in modern society than they were 40-some years ago!

[gorydetails]

lol, no. It's because their mental illness goes hand in hand with their sexuality.

[Asker]

Homosexuality stopped being considered a mental illness in 1973
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_DSM

Gender dysphoria is still considered a mental disorder in 2023. This is what trans people have
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria

[gorydetails]

They often suffer from depression and anxiety and a whole host of other mental illnesses that are still correctly classified as mental illnesses until the PC police get those also.

[Anonymous]

No. I think they have a higher rate of mental illness and that is the reason.

[gothbxtch]

absolutely, yes.

[HelpfulWoman]

well.. duh?

[Anonymous]

That seems very believable.

[Agape93]

Yeap