Manufactured Suicides

Trans kids are not the crisis. Trump’s transphobic politics, Republican laws, and evangelical-right attacks are manufacturing the conditions pushing them toward suicide.

Political conditions are not background noise. For trans kids, they become the hallway they are forced to walk through.

Trans young people are not in crisis because of who they are. They are in crisis because the conditions around them are being manufactured to make survival harder. That is the thesis, and the evidence does not soften it. The Trevor Proj…