Nearly 14% of adolescents reported a previous suicide attempt; disparities by gender identity in suicide attempts were found.
Female to male adolescents reported the highest rate of attempted suicide (50.8%), followed by adolescents who identified as not exclusively male or female (41.8%), male to female adolescents (29.9%), questioning adolescents (27.9%), female adolescents (17.6%), and male adolescents (9.8%).
A long-term Swedish study finds that post-operative transgender people have “considerably higher risks” for suicidal behavior. This argument is made all the time.
Objective: Despite professional recommendations to consider gender-affirming hormone and surgical interventions for transgender individuals experiencing gender incongruence, the long-term effect of such interventions on mental health is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to ascertain the...
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However, suicide rates for personality disorder, schizophrenia, substance addiction, bipolar, depression and autism
were all higher than suicide rates for GD people.
Perhaps by focusing on "
the latest thing" to be accepting and caring about, you're missing bigger problems.
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