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2018-05-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chelsea Manning Tweets Suicide Note and Picture of Herself on Ledge of a Tall Building
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Posted by Fred 2018-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 ...Although it's not a 'always-happens', suicidal thoughts and actions are a serious problem in the trans community...because it's a hell of a shock to discover that you've gone through all that, only to find that it didn't make your life perfect, and in fact just made it more difficult.

And ol' Chelsea wasn't the most stable little thing to begin with.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-05-29 05:17||   2018-05-29 05:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Manning, a Democratic Senatorial candidate,

Aaahh, a match made in he...., no hel...... well somewhere.

A perfect fit for Silentbrick's letter.
Posted by AlanC 2018-05-29 07:02||   2018-05-29 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Michelle Carter to the white courtesy phone, please, Michelle Carter...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-29 07:27||   2018-05-29 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this Gary Numan's comeback album or something?
Posted by Raj 2018-05-29 07:58||   2018-05-29 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 "I double dog dare you"
Posted by ed in texas 2018-05-29 08:25||   2018-05-29 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 suicidal thoughts and actions are a serious problem in the trans community

As I recall, there is no significant difference between the rates of anxiety, depression, and attempted/completed suicide among those in the trans community who have gone through the surgery and hormones and those who remain comoletely as nature made them. And, as Dr. Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins Medical School wrote a few years ago, after having studied the issue for forty years,

Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to twenty times that of comparable peers.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-29 08:40||   2018-05-29 08:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Opportunity missed. Heeey look at me!
Posted by KBK 2018-05-29 08:49||   2018-05-29 08:49|| Front Page Top

#8 "Herself" - you're A MAN. Poor excuse for one, but you'll NEVER be a woman
Posted by Frank G 2018-05-29 08:50||   2018-05-29 08:50|| Front Page Top

#9 if you can't say anything nice.....(crickets)
Posted by Omomoth Spolumble6223 2018-05-29 09:04||   2018-05-29 09:04|| Front Page Top

#10 BRADlee! You're such a tease!
Posted by Mercutio 2018-05-29 09:05||   2018-05-29 09:05|| Front Page Top

#11 All because you straight guys won't date (and have sex with) him --er-- her --er-- it.
RACCIIISSSTTT!!!!!
(/SARC)
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-05-29 09:26||   2018-05-29 09:26|| Front Page Top

#12 All because you straight guys won't date

Or because the lesbians won’t date him. Isn’t that [the reupholstered] Bruce Jenner’s complaint?
Posted by trailing wife 2018-05-29 09:33||   2018-05-29 09:33|| Front Page Top

#13 "I took (cut off) my toys and I went home".
It does alter your voice, but it does not give
you a platform. There is a difference.
Posted by Beau 2018-05-29 09:42||   2018-05-29 09:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Please what ever you are? MISTER, MISSES. Take some acid then go on a TRIP? FLY like a aah, BIRD? But please do something like STFU an or JUST LEAVE the USA? UMMK?? wut ever it/you be??
Posted by ranture 2018-05-29 12:11||   2018-05-29 12:11|| Front Page Top

#15 A talented writer named Jerzy Kosinsky had an interesting story about the struggles trannies face in a very weird book titled "Blind Date."

Unrelated to the subject of this comment, Kosinsky's novel "Being There," which was adapted to film, uncannily predicted the presidency of Barack Obama.
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2018-05-29 13:38||   2018-05-29 13:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Chelsea, don't JUMP, don't JUMP!!!
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-29 14:36||   2018-05-29 14:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Sad our society has branded as hatred any attempts to actually help the trans community work through the underlying problems. Just accept and blame society for the high suicide rates among the trans community.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-29 14:38||   2018-05-29 14:38|| Front Page Top

#18 The Taliban returned him to us. Another reason I hate the Taliban!
Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-29 16:59||   2018-05-29 16:59|| Front Page Top

#19 #18 - Errrrr....no. Deployed to Iraq
Posted by Frank G 2018-05-29 18:08||   2018-05-29 18:08|| Front Page Top

#20 
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-05-29 18:47||   2018-05-29 18:47|| Front Page Top

#21 I get my info from fake news.
Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-29 18:48||   2018-05-29 18:48|| Front Page Top

#22 Actually, I feel a little badly for Him. Her. It. This douchebag.

Okay, maybe not that badly. But hey. A little badly.

Suicide hurts a lot of people. Other than the deader.
Posted by Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-05-29 22:02||   2018-05-29 22:02|| Front Page Top

#23 Chelsea Manning, Chelsea Handler, Chelsea Clinton...enough already!
Posted by Sgt.D.T. 2018-05-29 22:33||   2018-05-29 22:33|| Front Page Top

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