*** Trigger Warning *** *** Trigger Warning *** *** Trigger Warning ***Suicide attempts increased among transgender teens when states passed anti-trans laws, study sayshttps://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/suicide-attempts-increased-among-transgender-teens-when-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-study-says/ar-AA1rgEyg?ocid=windirect&cvid=e94d22e15c2f41a3b3e0d762680aeba8&ei=59Story by Jen Christensen (26 Sep 2024)
People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the population, but they've been the targets of an outsized share of negative attention from lawmakers, a new study says — and those laws can have potentially deadly consequences.
The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, found that when anti-trans legislation becomes state law, suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary young people rise, with increases of up to 72% among teens who live in states where those bills become law.
In 2024 alone, politicians in US states introduced 658 anti-trans bills, triple the record set the year before, according to Trans Legislation Tracker, an independent research group.
The study found that self-reported suicide attempts among these young people did not seem to increase while these bills were under debate in their state. But once the bills became law, the researchers saw a statistically significant increase in suicide attempts among young trans and nonbinary people who lived in those states.
With many of the laws targeting young people, the researchers say, it should come as no surprise that the effect was bigger for 13- to 17-year-olds than among the full sample of young people ages 13 to 24.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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