We also need some definitions. A transgender person is one who starts out life as one gender and one biological sex (not anatomically intersexed) who then switches to another gender role as often shown by names and personal pronouns, clothing, employment choices, and in some cases hormones and surgeries. A transgender woman is, in US and UK culture, one who is biologically male who lives in the gender role typical of a female. A transgender man in this same culture is one who is biologically female who lives in the gender role of a male. This excludes minor gender non conformity, bigender, agender, or non-binary people. This definition of transgender may also include other gender expressions if they meet the definition of a transgender man or woman in most material ways.
A study was conducted by UCLA which sought among other things to determine the suicide rate of transgender men (biologically female gender behavior male) and transgender women (biologically male gender behavior female, Transwomen)
Suicide attempts among trans men (46%) and trans women (42%) were slightly higher than the full sample (41%). Cross-dressers assigned male at birth have the lowest reported prevalence of suicide attempts among gender identity groups (21%). \cite{jd889a}.
Ben Shapiro and others argue that transgender people should be given psychological treatment, not be treated with hormones or addressed with gender concordant pronouns and instead should be addressed by biological sex \cite{shapiro2016}.
He and those like him are not totally wrong.
According to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care (WPATH SOC's) psychological treatment is a very important part of the solution and is the first step. Those standards recommend intensive psychological counseling, a long period of real life living as a transgender person in society, followed at the very end by surgery IF requested and with the approval of two PhD'd psychologist and the patients MD. \cite{wpath2001} There are those in the transgender who feel strongly that it is offensive to treat trangender people with psychology \cite{tcj0c6}, and there are those who feel it is a good and necessary step \cite{kininmonth2016}.
However, Ben Shapiro and others who hold his views argue that if we treat transwomen like men and address them as men and don't accommodate them at all it will make them act like men and make them better. Assuming a modicum of good faith on their part.
Where those like him go very wrong is in using the UCLA study to back up their argument because its conclusion is not mathematically sound when generalized to the whole population of transgender people and allowed to play out over time.