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by 0xy 1221 days ago
The 2015 US Transgender Survey cited in your link was commissioned by the National Center for Transgender Equality (an organization that was founded by a transgender activist).

The study was performed online and links were posted exclusively in transgender support forums.

Your standards for "evidence" reach the heights of biased activist SurveyMonkey CSVs? I'm convinced!

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the study was intending to measure the rate of suicidal thoughts among transgender people.

Seems like a great way to get a lot of datapoints is to use a transgender forum. Seems like a great way to measure suicidal thoughts is to ask "do you have suicidal thoughts"

So seems like a great approach to gather a lot of evidence for the question at hand?

Seems like you just don't like the evidence because it doesn't reach the rather bigoted conclusion you want it to