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I appreciate the study, but all this shows is that they're still more likely to attempt or commit suicide than those with same birth sex, which should entirely be expected as they're still mentally ill regardless of whatever treatments they undertake. If you're going to argue transitioning does not alter outcomes for the better, then that would require a study among suffers of GID (transitioned vs. non-transitioned), not a study comparing outcomes of transitioned individuals vs. same birth sex individuals.
Perhaps a better to demonstrate my point would be this: Suffers of schizophrenia that are undergoing pharmacological treatments (namely in the form of antipsychotics) are still at increased risks of suicide, impatient hospitalization, and unemployment when compared to the non-schizophrenic population at large, but that doesn't mean pharmacological treatments do not alter the outcomes of schizophrenics for the better.
In contrast to your example, the numbers show an actual increase among the "transitioned" treatment group, not just against the general population, but against the "non-transitioned" control group. This is how we do psychological research, using methodology and accumulated statistics that measure the treatment group not only against the norm, but against the non-treated control group.
I'm beginning to sense that you want to argue the point to suggest that GID is a legitimate biosocial/psychological disorder, rather than a contrived diagnosis that was formulated and approved for the DSM-5 for political, rather than health, reasons. GID is truly a disorder, but it is a spiritual/psychological error rather than being what it purports to be, a case of "wrong gender in the wrong body."
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