Nearly 8000
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/

Here the Swedish study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7317390/
Their findings suggest lack of social acceptance to be a probable cause

Are are of those groups being killed for their conditions? No, then take your hyperbole elsewhere.

As someone with a university degree in German and English linguistics and literature, I would have a lot to say to this statement as well, none of which would strictly speaking delve into the 'political', but all of which would address prevalent, millenia old and very incorrect notions about language. Mostly the idea that language is this rigid and unchanging skeleton of fixed grammar and vocabulary that must not respond to societal changes in any way.

But the only thing I'd like to say at this moment is that I can not talk about my sibling with yesterday's version of the German language, so I'll take a listen to what the fine non-binary folks suggest and will do my darndest to normalize the fuck out of what they think of as respectful. That's simply my reality. I have no choice to make. There's this new lexical gap in our language, it's huge in the everyday conversations I have, I have no constructive suggestion how to fill this gap, so I use the words devised by others. Either that or never talk to or about my sibling any more. Shrug dot gif.

If I can't influence others to pick up those grammatical forms, fine. I won't force anybody! But my family already uses them, my closest friends already started, and my people at work have made a surprising effort, just for my sake, so I guess these forms will be normalized in certain small circles regardless of conservative boo-hoos or the super representative polls on the Döpfner-Poschardt peninsula of the internet. Even our half Costa Rican employee has picked up on these new pronouns, which makes me really happy. At the core of it, these new grammatical forms won't be relevant and won't be forced on anybody without direct or at least indirect contact to a non-binary person, so you likely won't "have" to learn or use them anyway, unless of course the state pays your salary or your paying audience turns out to be diverse.

I'm completely with you on the virtual novel 'pedo' issue, by the way. And I guess you'd think very differently if a person close to you told you they were non-binary. These are two issues both about a very elementary form of respect, of being treated like a person, and of overcoming prejudice.

Well they keep threatening to leave. But if they don't, all it does is show their lack of conviction. They love to say "get woke, go broke" but it rarely seems to manifest.

Again
The statestics shoud show there are increased rates suicide before the modern care got implemented
it does not show this

I don't want sound, as they call it, 'prejudiced', but, the ESG policies many companies are following nowdays are going to destroy companies productivity in the next few years.

By that I don't mean that diverse people can't produce and make profit, no, as someone might call this out and accuse me of doing so just as a mean to attack me for saying that and disagreeing with this.

I mean that forcing any company to follow a set of rules regardless of the proven profit those rules may or may not give in an arbritrary way in the long term will just prove to not work with the companies that follow said arbritary rules. And this may happen with any company, regardless of producttivity because there are a lot consumers that are tired of agendas being pushed to them.

Before you (you who?: Anyone that just want to attack me for disagreeing with this) attack me for anything, as it is common in heat topics when we disagree with said minorities, be warned that I talk with all kinds of people everyday and they respect me because I respect them, and I have no problem with them as long as they respect me, as it is and as it should be with anyone in a healthy society.

But I just want to open my heart about this here:

I completely disagree with the way GOG is forcing its members to not be able to discuss politicts in the Forums (by the rules of the Forum activity), but force us into political topics when they have the opportunity to.

If you like to make this propaganda, let us share our opinions too about all politic topics in the Forum as a whole and everyone will respect your position doing that, as this is true free speech. But do not force us into topics we do not want to discuss while disallowing us from discussing political topics in the Forums.

I suggest the team to revise your Forum codes and rules to allow true free speech without offenses and agressive behaviour, or stop pushing your own propaganda to us, please. And I ask this politely, as we all, as adults (meaning: mature people), know the real world is complex enough and discussing anything with respect and compassion is appreciated and fruitful/beneficial to everyone.

Not sure what you're saying but it reads like your say suicide rates decreased with more modern care?
Sorry I missed when you said that, is it the overweight person being evicted and the guy with glasses that needs food?

You really seam to be living in you own little thread

The overwigth perswon can get denied on a plane
theres also other situations where discrimination can happen with the excuse its for security reason or the like or simply because the reality of being fat poses a natural hinderance
For example wigth limit on a roof

That's a worthwhile question. And I think we agree. I don't call it healthcare or support. That's what I was trying to call out.

LGBT+ Pride month isnt propaganda. Free speech isnt "let everyone say anything they want", free speech is "let good people speak their minds without being harmed for it".

Good that you state your expertise and degrees, before making your point. For some odd occurrence I also studied German philology as a minor subject. You are right that language is evolving and ever changing in social groups and becomes part of the language as a whole perhaps at some point. Though what we are facing now is a bit different in today's time with social media and NGOs pushing agendas. We are at a point that language gets dictated by an ideology, This has nothing to do with the natural development of a language and the most part of the German population rejects it. So please stop painting a picture of Germany as it is on that page, the government might be as in a lot western countries, but the people are not.

Thanks for your professional business practice prophecies. Studies find the complete opposite though.

https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amj.2019.0468
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567114001786
https://www.ucdenver.edu/docs/librariesprovider68/default-document-library/jmna-articles-bonuscontent-2.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323809270_Workforce_Diversity_Improves_the_Productivity_of_an_Organization
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2018/how-diverse-leadership-teams-boost-innovation

Welcome to the 1970s, I guess. Or the 50s. Or the 30s with its radio and later the Volksempfänger. It's probably not true, but as the story goes, Socrates thought that language change would destroy the Greek language wholesale within a generation. The fact of the matter is that a language that does not change is factually dead. The problem is that we have to close a lexical gap in the German language. I'll gladly repeat that you can either participate in suggesting how we close this lexical gap or use a solution provided by others. What you can't do is pop a vein because some people use language in a certain way, or insist we leave this lexical gap open just because the problem concerns so few of us. If it's not your cup of tea, don't drink it. But participation in the debate is meaningless without contributing to a solution. Eventually, a completely different generation will decide on how our language will look than the one that's now voting in clickbait internet polls. And from what I've experienced, they're a good deal more progressive than I could ever hope to be.

Free speech by my understanding is: Let everyone say what they want and judge their words later using comon sense and depending on what they're saying, studies, papers, and so on.

Then you can see if they're telling the truth or not. If it is proven to be true: Good.
If its not: Shame on them for being liars - and so everyone else will doubt that person before they can gain any trust again in society.

Something like that would be what Twitter is doing right now with false posts: Giving the possibility for people to judge if said post are true or not, and letting everyone know after it has been corrected with warnings made by the community.

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As I can't edit my own post, it seems its some kind of bug with so many people posting.

I'm not "twisting" your words, I'm trying to unravel them.

You are making no sense You are literally saying suicide rates were higher BEFORE modern care.

If you are saying suicide rate went up AFTER the care was implemented, that study clearly states suicide rates remained the same at all stages of Transition (so before hormones, after hormones (ie CARE) and any surgery) for Trans Men and reduced over time for Trans Women.