When your sexuality might net you a place on an FBI NVE list, yeah you'll hear a lot less from them.
New headline: "The Violence is Working"
That was my thought too, the article skips the most obvious cause: violence and state repression work as a deterrent. If being queer or trans risks surveillance, legal attack, or violence, people will understandably stay silent.
High schoolers, known for telling the truth and not keeping secrets!
Try posting on maga.place, they may share your opinions more than the rest of us.
Why are you so desperate that we take it as gospel? Oh wait...
Because this is a "news" outlet with a faith section vs the words of the LGBTQ+ I know and love. Their counter culture mission ignores obvious causes for stories they like to tell themselves. You calling it "authentic truth" tells me your bar for what counts as "reality" is quite low.
Try maga.place, and seriously leave the rest of us alone.
There aren't fewer trans people - young or old: a lot of them simply choose to stay quiet in a dangerous reactionary fascist country.
https://unherd.com/2025/10/what-will-the-gaza-deal-unleash/
Coming from the same media... Maybe this community needs a bot to at least be able to place a media on the right left spectrum (as limited as it is)
And to answer the question : because event in an okay country it is scary as fuck, but in Trump land it is fucking dangerous for your life and if you will know you will die, at least with suicide you control it. Being horrifically murdered is worse if you consider deat unescapable.
What in the fuck
Have you heard about the correlation between the increase in left-handedness after left-handed people stopped being thought of as "wrong" somehow? Perhaps it's that the increasingly hostile social environment is making people less likely to identify themselves as being trans for fear of being targeted?
Tamagotchis were a "fad". Society being open to people expressing their identities is not a "fad".
Also it's 2025 and we have spell check everywhere, it's spelled "staunchly".