Transsexuality is a mental disorder.

It is clear that today's society, has strayed from the once popular belief that transsexual individuals suffered from a mental illness. Today we no longer perceive transgender individuals as mentally ill, and deem them functioning members of our society. That point was driven home even further with the recent movement to allow transgenders to serve openly, as well as join our military. Ignoring the mental stability of transgenders is harmful in many ways. A transgender person is 30% to 50% (in some cases depending on which polls you reference) more likely to commit suicide, both post and pre-operation. Studies from Sweden, Denmark and also a 2013 study shows 90% of transgenders have mental disorders consisting of depression and anxiety known causes of suicide. People are often quick to argue the suicide rate is due to the oppression, lack of acceptance, bullying, and other negative factors they face from members of today's society. Therefore, it seems people feel they must advocate for their rights, and push for fair treatment and acceptance in order to reduce these rates. Is the suicide rate that drastically influenced by conditions within our society? The suicide rate for Jewish members of Nazi Germany during World War II, was astronomically lower than transgenders today. Comprehensive data shows in 1942, those who were persecuted after being classified as Jewish according to Nazi race laws were 26 times more likely to commit suicide (rate: 1,480/100,000) 1.5%. Are transgenders today suffering more than the Jewish population did under the rule of Adolf Hitler? The answer is obvious, so to claim that their high suicide rate is solely and directly related to their treatment from society is ridiculous. Instead of "treating" them with expensive surgeries and hormone treatments, we should be attacking the issue on the mental side. Doctors and surgeons profit greatly from gender reassignment operations, yet gender surgery is not the required treatment for depression and anxiety or other transgender mental disorders. Why is this not being brought up more? Why is it now taboo to link transsexuality with mental illness? The Dutch study results state In 270 (75%) of these 359 patients, cross-gender identification was interpreted as an epiphenomenon of other psychiatric illnesses, notably personality, mood, dissociate, and psychotic disorders. Major mood disorders, dissociative disorders and psychotic disorders reported in 79% of transgenders. This should be alarming. Of course there are transgender individuals who do not suffer from mental illness, however by not focusing on this issue we are not saving potential lives. Everywhere we see the constant rhetoric about gender change success and yet not one sound media report that acknowledges 30% to 50% of transgenders commit suicide because of untreated mental illness. Wouldn't advocating for them acknowledge this, and bring attention to this issue? The media has been spinning a rhetoric that transsexualism is a civil rights issue, they do not disclose that nearly 90% of the time transgenders suffer serious mental issues, disorders that are causing their regret and premature deaths. Insanity is to focus on XY and XX patterns, hormone treatments and surgery or born in the wrong body, when it"s mental illness.