I know that that specific source is not made by stone cold facts, but that is just one of the several articles I have linked, and the self reported sourvey, while not the best, is still being made by people who are capable of descernment.
In the other surveys, one of the questions was about suicidal thoughts and was made with the same method used to get that famed suicide rate statystic. It was taken based on a selected number of people.
You keep using the term "ill" but, as I said before, it's a disorder. Adhd is a disorder too, as well as dislexia and others. It's an extremely broad term that includes all neurodivergent conditions excluding mental illnesses, most of which actually make you incapable of descernment.
Questions like "Are you having suicidal thoughts" are extremely commonly used even with patients who are actually incapable of discerning for decades simply because it has been seen throught the years that the the data they provide more often than not reflects reality, so why should these people's opinions be discarded?
It's true that research often reflects the commont current of thougt, but let me make you an example. If right now, a research was made and it claimed slavery was actually good, everyone would go nuts over it, so the researchers would tend to claim otherwise, as it is the more tame option. Even now, there are still researches being made about slavery being bad, but do we automatically discard them for tending towards one solution mote than the other?
The thing you say should stimulate critical thinking, but it alone does not impact their validity, otherwise there could not be researches that validate the most accredited options. These people are still professors or doctors who are part of organizations devoted to learning, and this is just one of the many researches they've made. They're not
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The last thing I wanted to say is that through modern technology a trans person after transition can work just as well as a normal person, because the procedures are the same as other transplant surgeries. We can have heart transplants that make people live with serenity but we can't have bottom surgeries that let you pee correctly? Not mentiong the nature of genitalia. A penis, biologically speaking, is just an extended clitoris.