With instant news stories about trans-gender is more easily in the spotlight and especially since the Jenner and Kardashian family thing, but the fact is that it's a rare thing and a very new thing.

I'm talking about the ability to change yourself in such a dramatic and permanent way. It's so rare too, although I don't have the % in front of me right now.

You're trying to be something you weren't born as. So, you might feel you're someone else and you want to change over. But this isn't just that one person having to change - it's everyone they know and love too.

Imagine, you're a very 'manly man' and you come out and say you're a straight female, identify as such, and you want to transist over as a female. You have children, a wife, a good job where you are close up and person with people - really close.

So, now everyone that knew you has to change their view on who you are, which is easier said than done. Now everyone is afraid to be blunt with you or worried they'll set off some kind of emotion with you. All the cultural rules that go with how you speak to each other changes. You were "Bob" in the men's restroom urinal and now you're "Bobbi" putting on makeup in the women's restroom giggling about some cute guy in the office. You were bad Bob at the bar winking at the girls in the tight black dress that you and your freinds whispered over. Now you're the girl in the tight black dress.

Really think about that? Is it just one person having to change or is it everyone that is close to you having to change too? This is more than respect, this is throwing your feelings to the world and saying, "I'm a liar! I'm really a woman inside my head! So I'm going to change my body and appearance - accept me now!"

That's a very big deal for others to deal with. I'm not putting down transgenders at all, but expecting family, friends and co-workers to automatically just accept that is hard to go over. So I can easily see why suicide is so high with them. I can't imagine the mental stress.