Gays and Suicide

[Captain Howdy]

I'm not sure how much the numbers back it up, but I think suicide is probably way more prominent in the LGBT community. I know it is an issue in the "trans" community.


Here's my take.

Being gay is abnormal. I'm not saying abnormal as a judgement. I'm talking statistically speaking. It's an outlier. Human society would collapse it if it structured itself around outliers, so I understand it... but you can't exist as a gay person and make it to an age of self-awareness, any age without being a little wounded from the experience because the entire world wasn't simply built with you in mind.

In some of us, those wounds are deeper than others and it serves to act as a psychological handicap.

I don't see it getting much better. I'm 50. I feel bad for the younger people. Right now we seem to be going backwards a bit in the USA. It doesn't always "Get better".

Maybe I'm off base.

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

Being gay is abnormal. I'm not saying abnormal as a judgement. I'm talking statistically speaking. It's an outlier.

Just because the statistics of being gay say it's a minority, doesn't mean it is. So many other animals show homosexual and bisexual behavior, I highly doubt that we are an ouliar (especially since many of the animals we are closely related to are very, very gay).

Although, we have something that changes things.

Trans people make it so that even a gay couple could have biological children. Our view of gender is, under current theory, more involved than other animals, and I think that if transness (hopefully) gets normalized, we may eventually "evolve" to have an even more broad view on orientation, since "men breeding with women" won't really exist the same way.