No, I don't. First of all, worldwide, suicide rates are going down from a peak in the 1990s.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-death-rates-by-sex?country=~OWID_WRL
That's a good thing overall. Depending on country, though, rates may be going up or down.
Talking about what the entire planet isn't a real answer to the fact that everything from suicide, depression, divorce has spiked in the US, which is the primary pioneer of this brave new world.
Are you implying that the U.S. is a world leader in transgender acceptance? From what I see, much of Western/Northern Europe and Canada have generally been more open to transgender rights. By this survey, for example, the top countries for transgender acceptance were Spain, Sweden, Canada, and Argentina.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-rights-23-country-survey/And those countries haven't seen the same trend in suicide rate as the U.S. Sweden's, Canada's, and Argentina's rates have gone down, and Spain's is stable. According to your view, countries that are the most culturally liberal and accepting of transgender should have a higher and rising suicide rate, and that is not the case.
The same thing is true of states within the U.S. You imply that rising suicide in the U.S. is caused by cultural leftism -- but California and New York have some of the lowest suicide rates of all the fifty states. From what you say, California should have a much higher and faster-rising suicide rate, but that isn't true.
Over the last 20 years, the rates have gone up in the U.S. and South Korea, but down in England, France, Russia, and Japan. But that is almost entirely non-transgender people. So the question is, are non-transgender Americans killing themselves more just because transgender people are more accepted? I think the simpler explanation is that the change is caused by factors other than transgender acceptance. As one data point, I would note that the California suicide rate has risen less than the overall U.S. rate, and California has one of the lowest suicide rates of all the states.
This seems like another deflection. There are a range of reasons why people kill themselves, from trauma experienced during military service to drug addiction to divorce. This dosent change the fact that homosexual and especially transsexual people have incredibly high rates of suicide.
I don't disagree that transgender people have a higher suicide rate. The question is what approach improves that suicide rate. My view is that there is no sign that demanding they "pray the trans away" makes things better. Both in the past and in the present, transgender people are frequently called disgusting freaks and ostracized, which I also don't think improves their suicide rate.
For suicide of transgender people specifically, the rate has always been high. That is, transgender people have risks different than non-transgender, but there's no indication that these problems are made better by taking a tough "pray the gay away" approach. I don't find many statistics broken down by year. The study below is from Holland, and it found a decreasing rate among trans women, and the same rate for trans men.
Firstly, multiple studies say the majority of teenagers with gender dysphoria de transition by adulthood.
http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html?m=1
Keeping in mind that we are experiencing a trend of rapid onset gender dysphoria due to children being impressionable and exposed to disgusting propaganda, why would we encourage these kids to permanently butcher their bodies and massively increase their chance of suicide?
From your link -- in the larger, post-2000 studies, about one-third of kids with gender identity disorder went on to be transgender adults. So I think it shouldn't be assumed that kids with gender dysphoria will grow up to be transgender, but conversely, it also shouldn't be assumed that they *won't* be transgender as adults. One-third is a large chance.
Your assumption here is that if kids are just firmly told "don't be trans" that they'll stop being transgender and their suicide rates will improve. I don't think that assumption is warranted. I don't have statistics specific to U.S. transgender kids, but the study that I've seen is that the historic rate of transgender suicide was just as high. I don't claim to know what approach is best, but as I noted earlier - the country and state trends don't support your view that cultural leftism results in higher suicide generally.
In the U.S., the overall teen suicide rate decreased from 1995 to 2007 or so, and then increased from 2007 to the present - and are now back up to close to the early 1990s levels.
Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htmI don't think this trend is as simple as anything about left vs right. I think it is being driven by other trends.