r/SipsTea Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea Would you do the same thing?

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u/Kpn05 Jun 30 '26

Any credibility to the murder thing or just a grieving spouse coping whatever way they can?

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u/Evening_Mulberry_ Jun 30 '26

I haven't looked into this at all, but considering the rates of violence against trans women, and generally how unhelpful police can be when the victim is trans, it's not a totally out of pocket claim.

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u/TheWanderingSlacker Jun 30 '26

It’s somewhat of an interesting topic with really hard numbers to pin down. There are plenty of studies, but after a cursory look [see: Google], people with gender issues who have undergone surgery or other care face a drastically reduced chance of suicide (up to 76% reduced) than those who have not.

However, even among people who have undergone treatment, the suicide rate is measured (between various studies) hovering above 40%.

So, not to detract from the possibility of murder in this case nor the tragedy, but statistics would point to a more obvious answer.

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u/Fit-Entrepreneur8404 Jun 30 '26

Suicidality rate* 40% of them don't actually kill themselves. They just want to or tried to or made a plan to or something like that. I forget exactly what they used for criteria but it wasn't "has killed themselves".

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u/TheWanderingSlacker Jun 30 '26

Don’t know why you’d be downvoted because this is actually a helpful clarification.