Trans people invariably suffer gender incongruence, previously known as gender dysphoria. Trans people are not mentally ill, but mental illness is widespread in the trans community because of online hate, massive ongoing trans-hostile press coverage and incredibly long waits at Gender Identity Clinics, often running close to a decade. Trans people describe gender incongruence as desperation, wrongness, jealousy, loathing, sadness, disgust, hopelessness, self-hate, drowning and, even more disturbingly, rejection, homelessness and suicide. Taking one’s own life is an act of desperation – leaving family and friends in shock and often wondering if they could have done more. Statistics vary, but…
