RWarehall: Despite your idiotic linguistic shenanigans, the statement reads fine. It would read fine if you substitute "cisgender" "Native American" "Black" "Hispanic". One does not have to use the redundant word "person" in every sentence if you want to get into pedantics.
babark: Speaking purely from a grammatical perspective, I'm not sure it works.
i.e.
"...the 41% number comes from a poll asking living black if they have ever attempted suicide in their lifetime"
Doesn't make sense. Even if one were to pluralise it
"...poll asking living blacks if they have ever...", it still sounds weird. In this case, I think adding person or people at the end would make more sense.
It does work, but I'll grant it should be plural. You do not need the word people as that would be redundant, unless you don't think they are people? But again, it's Dtgreene going out of her way to distract from the real issue, that the statistics she cites does not make a whole lot of sense.
Let's approach this another way...the overall annual suicide rate is 12.93 per 100,000. If we multiply that out with the figure provided by Gnostic 956,700 (based on 0.3% of the population being trans) we get 125 deaths per year. But wait, the claim is 41% vs 4.7% of the normal population are suicidal [let's ignore the exaggeration this is 10 times higher as it isn't even 9 times]. Now we get 1,089 trans suicides annually or under 2% of these death reported? For a group that has been doing everything possible to expose the issue?
This appears to be another grossly exaggerated number popularized throughout the media that no one seems to even do the most basic fact-checking on...
Edit: I see I used 4.7% instead of 4.6%. Starting from scratch with an estimated figure of 322,762,018 people alive at he start of 2016 and using 0.3% for the trans population you get 968,286. If they are normal using the 12.93 per 100,000 figure we should expect 125 deaths per year. Then applying the 41% suicidal vs. 4.6% of the regular population, you get 1,116 deaths per year. If you believe that many suicides per year is really occurring, you'd have to believe that less than 1 in 50 or just 1.8% of these deaths are being noted by the activists.
The real irony here is that 20 trans suicides in a year...which gets reported as being this crazy high number, would make the trans population less likely to commit suicide than the cis population. Don't you love the media? Where is the fact checking?