The suicide rate among trans people is so high because of bigots like you.
You can't even begin to prove that.
Okay, let's look at this ham-fisted comparison. No one would tell you to treat your depression by "Cheering up" or "don't be such a Debbie Downer". If your condition was severe enough, you would get counselling and maybe medication to treat it. You could even legitimately claim it as a disability and get special considerations at the workplace. Not to mention all these nitwits who call their dogs "Emotional support animals" and bring the filthy beasts into restaurants where I am trying to eat.
So let's grant that gender dysphoria is a mental condition. We wouldn't treat it by telling people to "man up". We would find treatments, and the treatment that we have found works is to let the person live as the gender of their choice.
The problem there is not being certain if the "solution" is helping. It's quite likely that the strain between a person's biological and mental livelihood is what's causing such turmoil, and encouraging them continue down the rabbit's hole only makes things worse. The trans suicide rate stays where it is after surgery, it's not like this solves the problem.
It's like giving a tragically emotionally junk-food-dependent morbidly obese person a free Big Mac whenever they want it. Yes, you're giving them what they want, but is what they want what they need?
Now, there IS a legitimate debate to be had on what roles teachers should play.
Is LGBTQ being over diagnosed, like ADHD is (IMHO). Or is it a condition like left-handedness, where one you accept it, it becomes more mainstream.
You see, around the turn of the last century, if little Timmy or Sally came to school and used their left hand, the teachers would force them to use their right hand. But around the 1950's, they realized that was probably a bad idea, the percent of southpaws increased to 12%, and that's where it's stayed ever since.
Handedness is astronomically different portion and function in the brain.
Okay, first and foremost, your Church spent centuries burning heretics, gays, witches, infidels, sexually abusing children, starting religious wars, and topping it all off with collaborating with the NAZIS.
Don't stop there, keep going... is Elvis Alive? Did we not land on the moon? Was Kennedy killed by a UFO?.. keep the misinformation going.
What do you think the Catholic School system is about if it isn't imposing Catholicism on unsuspecting children?
Provided it's from a private school, you can go to any religious school of any religion no problem. The parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit.
The problem is when public schools teach their trans-theology onto kids, and even encourage kids to keep their decisions secret from their parents, which seems to keep being exposed.
I've said that if trans people want to teach kids their theology, they should start their own schools, just as the rest of us who beleive in mythical beliefs did.
I should also point out that this country has a LONG history of anti-Catholic bigotry. The kind Catholics have rightly complained about and have gotten laws to protect their rights. Or do you think it's a coincidence we've only had two Catholic Presidents in our entire history?
1. Yes, you know your history
2. Did Catholics ever demand to redefine something basic and then label you has hateful if you don't agree?
No, they really aren't. I mean, you probably have some self-hating gays who are... but not much more than that.
They are definitely at odds with each other.
1. A man likes men, he's gay. So he seeks other men.
2. He meets a woman who declares she's a man.
3. He ignores her because she's not what he's attracted to, men.
4. The Trans community views this as hateful and misgendering, akin to violence.
