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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any studies or numbers on the suicide rates for trans teenagers? I’ve heard that it’s high, but don’t know specifics.
If there is data, has it changed over the years? [/quote]

It’s high. The main factor isn’t just that they’re trans, it’s that they’re trans and not supported by their family. When families are supportive, the numbers are lower. [/quote]

I’m curious about the numbers in the 90’s, and 00’s. 
I wonder if those numbers have changed.[/quote]

You can Google it. I don’t have time. It’s been a steady thing though, lgbtq youth who are accepted have much lower rates of mental illness and death from suicide compared to those whose families are unsupportive, although both are higher than cishet youth. It’s probably something to do with it being acceptable in our society to treat them like deviants and politicians trying to make laws against them. Imagine being a trans youth in SD today. Even if your parents are supportive and helping you get treatment, state law says no, you shouldn’t exist, sorry. So what now? As a parent, I’d use the next year to find a new job and move to a state where treating my child isn’t illegal, but I know that would tear my son up because he’s feel responsible for upending our lives and causing us to move and change jobs. Those politicians feel like it’s more important to keep people closeted than to prevent suicides. [/quote]

I mean look, the issue isn't the lack of support, the issue is that "support" today is interpreted to mean one thing and one thing only.

The Atlantic ran a feature on trans children I think as early as 2018, and talked to a great number of trans/not-trans kids and their families, and two of the themes that emerged strongly were:

1.  It's wrong to say support for the child saying they are trans must mean immediate acceptance, medication and surgery.  In many cases support should mean therapy and self-examination.  Many gender transition clinics are agenda driven, and therapists are not incentivized to push caution. It is in fact considered almost a betrayal to the cause to have any doubts.

2.  Sometimes depression and mental illness does not go away after the transition; sometimes you just become a different-gender person with the same mental issues, and they would have been better addressed by therapy and mental help rather than assuming all your mental illness and depression will magically lift once you are the "right" gender.[/quote]

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