Are most “transgender” people happy? The Washington Post recently published findings of a survey stating that they are. In a culture where mental illness is trendy and depression is rampant, particularly among teens, this seems a little too good to be true. Perhaps “happy” isn’t quite the correct moniker; “satisfied with their lives” is the actual turn of phrase.
Conservative columnist Eddie Scarry points out that everything about this survey is shoddy at best and dishonest at worst. Of the 1,338 respondents, 515 of them identified as transgender. “Transgender,” by the Post’s definition, was notoriously loose, ranging from individuals who ran the gamut of physical alterations and hormone therapy to those who still lived as their biological sex and whose only claim to transness was their declaring themselves “nonbinary.” …