That “leads to” makes it sound like it just mechanically follows from harassment/being unsupported that you commit suicide some of the time. In aggregate, you can describe it like this, but my understanding is that medical professionals oppose the mechanistic framing (also calling gender-affirming care “life-saving”, basically the inverse of the same statement) because it effectively normalizes/encourages suicide, as though it’s just what happens if you don’t get support and then get a bad roll of the dice.

What is the alternative framing that would less normalize/encourage suicide? I’m skeptical that a non-optimal framing of the situation is contributing meaningfully to rates of trans suicide in comparison to the material reality of being trans and unsupported in modern western society.