41 percent of people who are trans or gender-nonconforming have attempted suicide.
LOS ANGELES — A new study released Tuesday explores in more depth the reasons behind disproportionately high suicide rates for transgender people, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Among the findings:
• Among those who had become homeless because of their gender identity, 69 percent said they had attempted suicide.
• 64 percent of those turned away by doctors had attempted suicide.
• Nearly two-thirds of respondents who had been the victims of domestic violence at the hands of a family member had attempted suicide.
• Those who were out as trans or said others could usually tell they were trans were more likely to have attempted suicide than those who could usually “pass.”
• Even transgender people at comparatively “low” risk were still much more likely to have attempted suicide than the general population, they wrote, with “lows” often ranging from 30-40 percent. Transgender and gender-nonconforming people who had gotten graduate degrees, for instance, had a lifetime risk of attempting suicide of 31 percent — lower than less-educated transgender people, but still high, the Times reports.
