That's because they count "desistance" as ANYONE who shows ANY level of gender-nonconforming behavior as a child and then shows less of it after adolescence This framing of this study by TERFs is wildly, viciously dishonest
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Also this is an area in which I think the emphasis on suicide has obviously backfired largely because activists underestimated how shitty people would be about it
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Like let's say I make an absolute, binding, unshakable commitment not to kill myself And/or you exert total control over my environment so it's absolutely impossible for me to kill myself Take dying by suicide completely off the table Does that mean my life is now fine
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This whole abstract says in a very longwinded way, repeatedly, that they have no data at all on the effect of transition on lifetime suicidal ideation Just that they're horrified that it's generally high among trans people, including trans people with access to transition
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