Quote from: Jessica_Rose on October 09, 2024, 05:56:03 AMThe survey also found that trans and gender-questioning teens face much higher rates of bullying, persistent sadness and suicidal thoughts or behaviors compared with their cisgender peers.
For example, bullying occurs twice as frequently among transgender teens compared to cisgender students, data from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention revealed.
"We have 5% of young people in the country who, because of the way they identify around their gender, are stigmatized, bullied, made to feel unsafe, feel disconnected at school and consequently have poorer mental health and higher risk for suicide than their cisgender peers," Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC's adolescent and school health division, told the New York Times. "That's just heartbreaking."
Yeah it is. And that's a very sad thing. It's not down to someone being trans, though. It's down to kids being kids. At that age they're like lions. They prey on weakness and vulnerability. Back before being trans was a thing, it was something else. It was your family's wealth. Whether you could afford the latest uber expensive trainers or whatever. Kids at that age are worse than the worst adults. They have all the cruelty without the moral filters. If it were up to me, kids would be... no, I won't go there. Needless to say that's why I've never had the patience, or desire to have any of the little gremlins.
The only thing you can really do is try to tell them they only have to get through school and once they're away from these insecure douchecanoes, they can make their own life. I wish people had told me that until my head bled. I might have not had such a miserable time of it. Between like 4 and 18... kids are like piranhas.
