Monday, 27 April 2009
The Heroes and Heroines of Laura's Playground
Transgender Suicide Report
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/heroes-and-heroines-of-lauras.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2009/04/heroes-and-heroines-of-lauras.html)
For the last five years Laura's Playground has prevented Transgender suicides on line. The estimate of transgender suicides in our community is between 31% to 50% depending on who in the community we talk to. Few outside our Community acknowledge or believe these numbers including Dr Kenneth Zucker and Doctors Blanchard and Baily. Until now it's all been guesswork. Actual numbers were hard to come by as it is hard enough for families to admit there was a suicide let alone that the victims were transgendered.