Most transgendered people kill themselves because of isolation and alienation. If it is n fact a mental illness, and it could be, it's a mental illness that doesn't affect you or me. Let people be who they want to be.How does advocating, encouraging, and appealing to those with mental illness help society? Something like 80% of all children experience some sort of gender disphoria while experiencing puberty, and 99% of them grow out of it. The other 1% end up like Bruce who have all of this encouragement, and then end up killing themselves five years later because they're insane.