I have a dream that one day the chicken can cross the road without having his motives questioned. WHY? is it important to you?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about it? WHY? is it important to you as well?

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

I wonder if Jefferson was talking about Transgender support groups in particular?

In a memorandum submitted in regard to the committee stage on the British Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (CJ&I 391); November 2007.
( www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmpublic/criminal/memos/ucm39102.htm ) the following was noted:
“Every trans person in the UK today has to undertake a risk analysis that weighs up home imprisonment on welfare benefits, suicide or the risk of physical harm, possibly even rape or murder as the price to be paid for living their lives in their preferred gender role. Research [published by the Equalities Review] showed that the suicide attempt rate for trans people is very high, far higher than the rate for one of the most mentally vulnerable groups; people with ongoing mental health problems as a result of childhood abuse or trauma.”

Not all current trans folk make it to the catwalk even though their delusion takes them to it.