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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 05:54 PM May 2016

Denying Transgender People Bathroom Access Is Linked to Suicide

http://www.newsweek.com/transgender-bathroom-law-study-suicide-454185

As North Carolina grapples with the fallout from its new “bathroom law,” which says that people must use public restrooms matching the gender on their birth certificates, and a dozen states consider similar bills, a new study suggests an association between denied access to restrooms and suicide attempts by transgender people.

In a national survey of people who identified as transgender, a higher percentage of respondents who reported having been denied access to a restroom also reported having attempted suicide, compared with respondents who said they had not been denied access, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Homosexuality. The study took into account access to restrooms only on college and university campuses and people who identified as transgender while on campus.

Of 2,316 of those respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey in 2008 and 2009, 46.5 percent said they had attempted suicide. That rate is significantly higher than the self-reported rate for the general population in the United States, which as of 2006 was 4.6 percent.

The study found a significant statistical association between denied access and suicide attempts, which it says “suggests that there may be a distinct relationship between the stress of not being able to use bathrooms…and one’s mental health.”
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Denying Transgender People Bathroom Access Is Linked to Suicide (Original Post) KamaAina May 2016 OP
Wingnuts will cheer when they learn this. Scuba May 2016 #1
No kidding... TipTok May 2016 #2
it's the part where they are treated as substandard human beings Skittles May 2016 #3
This can and should be a SCOTUS case. Initech May 2016 #4

Skittles

(152,966 posts)
3. it's the part where they are treated as substandard human beings
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:45 PM
May 2016

not being able to use the bathroom of the gender you identify with is dehumanizing and humiliating

for whatever reason, repukes seem to need to feel superior to others

Initech

(99,915 posts)
4. This can and should be a SCOTUS case.
Tue May 3, 2016, 06:47 PM
May 2016

The fundie wingnuts are completely out of control on this non issue and continue to get more batshit crazy by the day. They need their asses handed to them by SCOTUS. Maybe then they might get that this has nothing to do with freedom. Maybe.

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