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Let’s see. It’s the 1980s, and our economy has been beset by 8-12% annual inflation, amidst general stagnation.
Is there anything we could do in this situation to increase economic output, and thus the supply of goods and services, and maybe even increase employment at the same time? Might any of those, perhaps, be promoted through the investment of capital, in any manner at all?
No!!! Like Nixon and Ford and Carter before us, we shall maintain very high taxes on the returns from capital investment, as we try subsidizing demand once again with stimulus spending! It’s sure to work this time.
Either way, the stats have never panned out for this sort of belief, and it usually seems to be a way to avoid having to think about political, social or mental health issues, access to weapons, or any other possible cause that might be controversial with a portion of the electorate.
Do you know what long term is? We literally don't have enough data to determine which way this will go. According to the NIH they're collecting long term data that will end after 3 years of study[0]. I'm old enough to remember that COVID-19 started around November of 2019. The current date is June of 2022, if my math hasn't failed me, we still haven't hit 3 years of having COVID. Further, the vaccine came out in December of 2020. It's stupid to try and say that the vaccine is perfectly safe long term, the same way it's stupid to say it's dangerous long term. We literally just do not know.
And from that study you listed on trans folks regretting transition:
> Thirty-nine percent (39%) of respondents experienced serious psychological distress in the month before completing the survey (based on the Kessler 6 Psychological Distress Scale), compared with only 5% of the U.S. population.
> Forty percent (40%) have attempted suicide in their lifetime, nearly nine times the rate in the U.S. population (4.6%).
> Seven percent (7%) attempted suicide in the past year—nearly twelve times the rate in the U.S. population (0.6%).
So apparently trans folks are only 9-12x more likely to attempt to commit suicide, but we're still being told that there's absolutely no harmful physiological effects. After all they don't regret it.
[0]: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/clinical-trials/covid-19-recon-19-...
"The majority of respondents who were out or perceived as transgender while in school (K–12) experienced some form of mistreatment, including being verbally harassed (54%), physically attacked (24%), and sexually assaulted (13%) because they were transgender. Further, 17% experienced such severe mistreatment that they left a school as a result.
In the year prior to completing the survey, 30% of respondents who had a job reported being fired, denied a promotion, or experiencing some other form of mistreatment in the workplace due to their gender identity or expression, such as being verbally harassed or physically or sexually assaulted at work.
In the year prior to completing the survey, 46% of respondents were verbally harassed and 9% were physically attacked because of being transgender. During that same time period, 10% of respondents were sexually assaulted, and nearly half (47%) were sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime.
Nearly one-third (29%) of respondents were living in poverty, compared to 12% in the U.S. population. A major contributor to the high rate of poverty is likely respondents’ 15% unemployment rate—three times higher than the unemployment rate in the U.S. population at the time of the survey (5%). Respondents were also far less likely to own a home, with only 16% of respondents reporting homeownership, compared to 63% of the U.S. population. Even more concerning, nearly one-third (30%) of respondents have experienced homelessness at some point in their lifetime, and 12% reported experiencing homelessness in the year prior to completing the survey because they were transgender."
I feel like this kind of mistreatment is the reason for the self-harm. Trans people deserve respect and understanding, and then the suicide rate will go down.
In their lifetime, not "since transitioning". If you felt like you were trapped inside someone else's body, you might attempt suicide too. A huge number of trans people go into the transition already fairly psychologically harmed by this, so none of these numbers are saying what you're implying they're saying.
Sex reassignment surgery is the cure to gender dysmorphia. https://fenwayhealth.org/new-study-shows-transgender-people-...