[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Marches

Well the rates have to be high in the first place to then be told to those people you’re likely to commit sucide right?

Not really. Lets say that tomorrow a rumour was started that blonde people are more likely to kill themselves than non-blondes. This was then repeated all over the place, had place in national newspapers and such. When a blonde person is having a hard time (or maybe develops depression) they could be more likely to actually try to commit suicide, as they know that thats what people like them do.

Suicide rates among transpeople are pretty high to start with (possibly due to co-morbid mental health issues, possibly due to how society treats them). The endless repeating of the suicide stats (and in many cases manipulation of suicide stats to make them look higher than they are) will not help matters at all.

https://www.samaritans.org/media-cen...-key-phenomena

I actually did not know any of this as little as 3 months back. It shocked me how stuff like this could have such an effect.

Search suicide contagion...if you have a few hours to get lost in it. I spent like a whole day reading articles about it.