The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Speaking of education, the odds of getting a decent one go way down due to the chances of institutional abuse in K-12 going up. I was sidetracked into a state run alternative school for being "disruptive" where I was then tortured by fundamentalists. Didn't graduate high school

It's worth noting that many trans youth along with LGBT youth more generally are actually sent to what amount to private gulags, conversion camps that are usually religiously run but not always. The "troubled teen" industry is deliberately obtuse about what counts as "troubled".

The risks of being trans are compounding. First family issues and school issues, which create housing and psychological issues, which create employment issues, which end up creating passability issues, and so you end up poor, homeless, mentally ill, marked out, in bad situations

Trans support groups can be somewhat helpful but they are essentially gathering places for the doomed in most events, or else help for people who don't really need it. It's always one or the other because each modality is anathema to the members who would make up the other group

Since being trans is not a culture/race it's typically something you weather alone. There's very little real trans solidarity, trans people are the most severe darwinian infighters out of any group I know of. There is of course cooperation, but not at the scale found elsewhere.

It's impossible to tell which friends will abandon you and for what reasons. Just for being trans, sometimes the most conservative people you know will stick around and the liberals will abandon. Then with compounding problems people eventually just declare you a deadbeat or w/e

A lot has been made out of suicidality. I first attempted suicide when I was 8 around when puberty first started, and again when I was 15. I don't consider suicide "a risk", because that externalizes responsibility. But it's always present as an "answer" to intractable problems.

One thing that tends to happen to many trans people is that they end up playing amateur therapist to other trans people, this despite the therapy requirement most countries have for transitioning. This is not really a "risk" in the same sense as the others, but worth noting.