If the way it's worded is what you take issue with, then I'll rephrase it as "interpretation of the survey", better?
Your reply made it sounds like you were conflating the two. I made a post about the suicide ideation rate, and your rebuttal was talking about the suicide rate.
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There's a combination of factors at play...some of them internal, some of them environmental.
Which number did I pull out of thin air? The numbers I had highlighted in yellow in the post you were replying to were copied and pasted directly from the studies
82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide
44% reduction in the odds of past-year suicidal ideation.
Evidence of Sweden having more rigorous standards with regards to transitioning?
I believe this was the study you linked earlier, but this link covers some of it, the process (during the time period this link covers) mentions that it involved the person receiving a dysphoria diagnosis and being referred to one of six specialized teams in the country, and if approved by one of those teams, the person applies for permission from a federal regulatory board.
The treatment for transsexualism is sex reassignment, including hormonal treatment and surgery aimed at making the person's body as congruent with the opposite sex as possible. There is a dearth of long term, follow-up studies after sex reassignment.To ...
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And they've opted to go even stricter recently
Background In February 2022, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) issued an update to its health care service guidelines for children and youth
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What, that more consultation and counseling time with regards to big decisions (in order to weed out people who may not be good candidates) will reduce the amount of "buyer's remorse" later?
You can call that an "assumption", but it's one (based on common-sense caution) that most people have based on everything we know about human behavior and observing other big decisions people make. And the younger (and more impulsive) a person is, the more thoughtful consideration is warranted.
Take the stats on marriage for example:
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