Showing posts with label Transgender suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transgender suicide. Show all posts

8/27/24

Transgender suicides in the UK have doubled since Bell v. Tavistock

Alice Litman, 20, Brighton, Sussex (United Kingdom) died of Suicide on 26 May 2022 after enduring 1000 days on NHS waitlist / photo: Gofundme by her Sister

Ignored, dismissed as irreverent and inconsequential, and after a purported coverup by the NHS and Cass, Transgender suicides in the UK have risen exponentially since Bell v. Tavistock.

On Friday 13th October 2023, after a special inquiry spanning 17 months, the coroner concluded that lengthy waiting lists and significant barriers that prevent transgender people from accessing gender-affirming care in the UK contributed to a decline in Alice's mental health, and raised concerns about delays accessing gender-affirming healthcare and a lack of clarity for clinicians.

Source: TransLivesMatter, the only global compilation of transgender wrongful deaths that includes death by suicide.

There have been 36 unnatural trans deaths in the UK since Jan 2020. Of those, one was reported as a custodial death, one unknown, two by violence, and 32 suicides.

Sixteen of those suicides were on NHS waitlists and according to two whislblowers who came forward to the Good Law Project those deaths were predicted by staff at the Tavistock clinic but their efforts to inform the public was denied with warnings of displinary action should they attempt again.

The age of those who committed suicide ranged from 44, to 12, with the vast preponderance of those being under 21 years old.

In comparison, the TDOR Project reports that there were a total of 18 unnatural trans deaths in the three years before NHS stopped treating trans people. Of those deaths two were custodial, two deaths were by violence, and 14 by suicide. I can remember looking at those numbers back then and feeling wonder, sadness, and even jealousy as the USA typically experiences hundreds of trans murders yearly.

One thing that leaps off the page is how many transgender people in the UK commit suicide compared to other causes of unnatural death and how many of them were but children when they ended their lives.

Another shocking thing is how these deaths are under and misreported by British media and ignored by the Cass Review, a political hitjob on trans health care by the conservative Torys and condoned by labour.

Fact: A person does not need to be on a "waitlist" to feel the hopelessness wrought by gender dysphoria left untreated.

British Medical Association calls for the NHS to resume treating Trans Patients of All Ages

Source: Erin in the Morning Trans Youth Suicides Covered Up By NHS, Cass After Restrictions, Say Whistleblowers

"On Thursday, Jo Maugham - director of the United Kingdom legal advocacy organization The Good Law Project - wrote a detailed thread on X/Twitter in which he alleges that there has been a substantial increase in the number of suicides for young trans people on the National Health Service (NHS) waitlist, and that the NHS has been suppressing the evidence. Maugham says that this occurred after the infamous 2020 Bell v. Tavistock ruling that restricted care for those under 16. While this ruling has since been overturned, the damage from it is still being felt today."

"Maugham, who first announced some of these claims in a Good Law Project fundraiser opposing the British puberty blocker ban, says that he spoke with two whistleblowers. “I have seen their staff IDs and each has provided me with some internal Tavistock documents. There is no doubt they are who they say they are.”

"The first whistleblower reportedly said that prior to the 2020 Bell ruling, only one young trans person died from suicide in seven years and that since the ruling, there have been sixteen deaths. This data is reported to come from an anonymous doctor referred to as “Named Doctor for Safeguarding Children.”

Read the rest at Erin in the Morning.

12/1/21

19-year-old transgender teen Haley Gabriella Feldmann ends her Life

Haley Gabriella Feldmann
Haley Gabriella Feldmann / Family

Haley Gabriella Feldmann grew up surrounded by a loving and accepting family, But tragically this hateful world was too much for her. Haley at the age of 19 ended her life on November 12, 2021.

According to the The TDoR project there have been 12 deaths not counting the suicide of Haley Gabriella Feldmann since the begining of the the 2022 reporting period.

On the November 20, 2021at the TDoR vigil we mourned a record 74 deaths in the United states. A full list can be found here.

Obituary for Haley Gabriella Feldmann

Haley Gabriella Feldmann was born on November 18, 2002. She was called boy and so we gave her a boy name—now a dead name. We gave her boy clothes, boy toys, boy things. We didn’t know she was our daughter and so we called her son and brother. Haley spent the first several years of her life content, within and without. She knew nothing of judgment or ridicule. She knew nothing but the love of her family, which she gave back in abundance.

During her adolescent years she retreated into herself and we lost her. She became silent . . . distant. She built formidable walls that became impossible to breach, and she stubbornly refused to grant us passage. She had begun to grow afraid of the world as she began to understand herself and who she was, and the reality of her situation became apparent. The more she learned of how the world would judge her for not being who it thought she should be, the more she withdrew. She was an atheist, unable to believe in any religion or deity that taught condemnation of her for not submitting to its beliefs of who she should be. She was a child of God, made perfectly in his image, her body only a vessel for the beautiful soul He created and with which He graced us. She laughed and she loved, and though her humor was dark, her nature was light. Her kindness, her empathy, her hope for others, and her desire to help anyone in need was a blinding light she shone on everyone but herself.

Haley gave us the gift of her truth, trusted us to see beyond her body to her soul, to believe her, and to love her. We will always be grateful for the chance to have her as she was and not who we had thought her to be. Now we call her daughter and sister and we closed ranks around her to protect her and to keep her safe from the willful ignorance that surrounds her.

Our daughter Haley spent most days wreaking havoc on the universe, her time spent being “Imperial Empress of the Galaxies, Conqueror of Solar Systems, Creator of Planets and Nations, Destroyer of Stars”, and loving and adoring Lucy, her best friend and the Best Dog Ever, who loved and adored her in equal measure. She created her own language with a full alphabet and rules, spending years revising and perfecting it, and, in typical Haley fashion, did not leave a key. She created her own maps, detailed in geography, and her own countries, rich in their histories. She dropped out of school and then graduated before her peers, which made her immensely proud. She taught herself history, geography, politics, and never hesitated to school anyone on the finer points of each. And she was usually correct.

Haley lived most comfortably in a Discord community of just under six hundred people from all over the world, each of whom loved and adored her. We are just beginning to learn of her profound impact within the community and we are grateful they had her and she was loved by them. Her soul was radiant there, unhindered by its physical representation here which had become a prison, freeing her to breathe and be.

Haley ended her life on November 12, 2021, her pain being too great. She had grown weary of the knowledge of her reality, knowing this country and this world would never stop trying to force her to submit to its ignorance, and her family rages for her. We would’ve burned the whole world down if we’d thought it would keep her safe, and our fury and outrage is eclipsed only by our grief. We struggle against the currents that try to carry us away from love, for those currents only take us further from her. And she is far enough, already.

Haley is survived by her devastated parents, David and Christina Feldmann; her siblings, Jacob Fruge, Joshua Smith, Ian Feldmann, Matthew Kostelecky, Tristan Smith, Alex Feldmann, Zethan Feldmann, Jazlyn Feldmann, and Sam Curtiss; her grandparents; several aunts, uncles, and cousins; and Lucy, all of whom are inconsolable in the loss of her brilliance, consumed with a grief that has buried us in moments of silence, rage, and sorrow—a void that will never be filled, and a loss that will never be eased. The world is less without her and we will never be the same.

There will be no formal services for Haley. She considered money spent on the dead to be frivolous and of better use elsewhere. Any donations to her family should be sent to The Jim Collins Foundation in hope that a life might be saved. In lieu of thoughts and prayers, her family asks that you be kind to the living and generous with what you have, be it your love, hope, or wealth. Do better unto others as you would have done to you, and reach back to those in need, lift them up, raise them higher, and love love love thy neighbor. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at: www.silhafuneralhomes.com

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Rest In Peace Haley Gabriella Feldmann