Dear @BenShapiro RE: trans suicides

Hey Ben,

I tried to contact you a bunch already. I wrote a few Twitter threads with you tagged in and I think I sent four emails? Maybe? So I figured I should try an alternative method of trying to contact you. The direct methods don’t seem to be working so here’s an indirect attempt.

Do you remember that speech you gave where you talked about trans people? The one where you claimed our suicide rates were really high and we clearly have a mental illness? This one? Or any of the other ones you mentioned the same “fact” in?

The transgender suicide rate is 40%, 40%! According to the Anderson School of UCLA it makes no difference whether people recognise you as a transgender person or not. Which suggests there’s a very high comorbidity between transgenderism and suicidality that has nothing to do with how society treats you.

These are your words, though I paraphrased slightly to cut out a little bit of waffling. Also amongst your repertoire of famous phrases is this little doozy.

Facts don’t care about your feelings

and also as recently as last night’s Rubin Report where you discussed Blaire White

The narrative becomes more important than the truth

I imagine the rest of this article is going to be awfully embarrassing for you then. Get yourself a cloth, there’s about to be a whole lot of egg on your face.

The first “fact” you have misquoted is the school at which the study took place, the Anderson School is a management school and as far as I can see — has never posted anything about trans people’s suicides. The correct school is the Williams Institute. Yes I’m aware this is a very small correction but I’m just warming you up.

The next thing you get wrong is the scope of the study. The phraseology you chose to use was “suicide rates” when in reality this study looks at suicide attempt rates. This is a huge and very important difference. One you should not have overlooked because its literally in the title of the study.

This matters for a few reasons, most importantly being that a suicide attempt can be anything from self…