You have a profound lack of critical thinking skills.
Here's what you wrote:
Unfortunately I can’t find it again, because it was such an interesting and surprising bit of data, but I read a study some years ago that split trans people up into three categories, and compared the rate of suicide among them:
- in the closet
- out, and reported being supported overall by their community/peers after coming out
- out, and reported being unsupported overall by their community/peers after coming out
If you had to guess which of the three categories had the lowest suicide rate, I bet it’d be #2, right? So did I, but actually, the group with the least suicidality was #1! The implication that never coming out at all makes a trans person less likely to take their life than coming out to people who accept and support them was stunning, but there it was, in black and white. So what does that mean, exactly?
What this means is that you're misremembering some study, are quoting a right wing hit piece, or are just pulling shit out of your ass. And it means you have a profound lack of critical thinking skills.
Just think about for a second. Actually THINK about it man!
How in the world are you going to have a study with any kind of statistical reliability, when you are polling trans people WHO ARE IN THE FUCKING CLOSET??!!
You do understand what those words mean, do you not? You're talking about people who are not out. You're talking about people who are not publicly out as trans. So obviously you can't poll these people when trying to survey the trans population. At best you can just randomly poll the population and ask random people if they're trans. But that method never works for small minority groups, as if even 1% of cis people lie on the survey and claim to be trans just to fuck with the results, the fake trans people will out number the real trans people in the survey.
Actually THINK about what drivel you are writing. How the hell can you make any claim about trans people that are in the closet? By definition, such people are indistinguishable from the larger cis population.
This is why I know that you're pulling this stuff right out of your ass. You're making a claim that is completely nonsensical.
You have failed at basic fundamental critical thinking.