It Is Something We Already Know

That having a support network and people who care for you cuts the suicide rates for trans people. Buy schools having GSAs, a school anti-bullying policy and enforcing it, and buy having family and friend support all bring the suicide rate down to that of the general population levels.

Calling transgender youth by their name dramatically reduces their chance of suicide
LGBTQ Nation
By Gwendolyn Smith
January 8, 2019

Calling a transgender person by the same name they refer to themselves can reduce their chance of suicide by as much as 65% according to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Heath.

Researches used a sample of 129 transgender and gender nonconforming youth from three U.S. cities , assessing their name usage among home, school, work, and friends. They then compared it to depression as well as suicidal ideation and behavior.

The results were at once both astounding and unsurprising: when compared to those who are not able to use their own name in any situation, researchers found 71% fewer indications of severe depression.

What’s more, they also found that thoughts of suicide dropped by 35%, and a 65% decrease in attempted suicide.

In light of that study you have to wonder what this did to the student?

‘Come out here and use the urinal’: Assistant principal accused of bullying transgender teen
Washington Post
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
December 19, 2018

Even down the hall, the other students could hear the assistant principal screaming at the transgender student, mockingly demanding that Michael Critchfield use the urinal to “prove that he was a boy.”

On a post-Thanksgiving band trip just after school, Michael faced the uncomfortable proposition of a 45-minute school bus ride in a stiff band uniform with a full bladder. So the drummer darted to the boys' bathroom and checked to make sure no one was inside.

Michael, a 15-year-old at Liberty High School in Clarksburg, W.Va., who identifies as male, was hoping to use the facilities without getting into a confrontation or a complicated discussion about gender identity and who should be allowed to use which bathroom.

But when he came out of the stall, Assistant Principal Lee Livengood was blocking the bathroom’s exit, according to a letter written to officials at Harrison County Schools by the West Virginia ACLU.
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“I wasn’t trying to be rude or anything,” Livengood reportedly said. “I’m not going to lie: You freak me out.”

What did it do to the student the target of his rage, an authoritarian figure screaming at him, it had to traumatize him?