A new study has found that suicide attempts among trans youth increased since the rise of anti-trans laws.
We don’t often hear much about anti-trans bills once they’ve passed, but a new study suggests that young people’s lives might just depend on our continued attention.“This groundbreaking study offers robust and indisputable evidence to support what we have already known: the recent wave of anti-transgender laws in the United States is quite literally risking the lives of young people across the country,” said Dr. Ronita Nath , Vice President of Research at The Trevor Project in a statement.
The study looked at the period from 2018 to 2022 when 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted across 19 state governments. While this is a fraction of the 476 that were introduced in the same five-year period according toThe Trevor Project examined the causal relationship between these laws and suicide risk, using data collected from a survey of more than 61,000 transgender and nonbinary youth between the ages of 13 and 24.
The study found a significant increase in suicide attempts among participants whose home state had enacted at least one anti-transgender law. The highest increase in suicide attempt rates — which ranged from 7% to 72% — was reported among participants between the ages of 13 and 17. The study found “minimal evidence” of increased suicidality in anticipation of these laws. In other words, it doesn’t appear the idea or even the passage of these laws alone leads to an increase in suicide attempts. But started a year after they’d been enacted — i.e. after people had actually spent time living under the law — researchers saw statistically significant increases in such attempts.Sadly, the risk to our trans and nonbinary children not only remains but has increased over time.
“It is without question that anti-transgender policies, and the dangerous rhetoric surrounding them, take a measurable toll on the health and safety of transgender and nonbinary young people all across the country,” said Jaymes Black, Chief Executive Officer at The Trevor Project., these young people will continue to be reduced to political talking points.
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