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The suicide rate is actually not much higher than average when a trans person has supporting parents, family, friends and lives in a supportive environment. Most of the problems trans people face is external.

>The idea that every man needs to be a musclebound athlete or that every woman needs to have a Barbie figure is just plain ridiculous
This sentence completely contradicts the rest of your post. If not every man needs to be a musclebound athlete, why are you against a man representing themselves as a woman? Why are you against a woman wanting to be masculine? Are you for or against personal freedom and expression? If you truly feel that "not every man needs to be a musclebound athlethe" then why isn't there room for all kinds of men? Males should be able to represent themselves anywhere in the spectrum of hypermasculine to hyperfeminine, including everything inbetween.

>That suggests that this is a mental disease,
The disease you're referring to is called gender dysphoria, which is treated by transitioning.