Suicidality Among Transgender Youth
Data indicate that 82 percent of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40 percent have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth
Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth.
The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372).
SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions.
Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86 percent reported suicidality.
Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant.
Interpersonal microaggressions, made a unique, statistically significant contribution to lifetime suicide attempts and emotional neglect by family approached significance.
School belonging, emotional neglect by family, and internalized self-stigma made a unique, statistically significant contribution to past 6-month suicidality.
Results have significant practice and policy implications.
Findings offer guidance for practitioners working with parents and caregivers of trans youth, as well as, for the creation of practices which foster interpersonal belonging for transgender youth.
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“Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth.”
How about using common sense based on what’s happening right now?
These people were coerced into this tragedy by some sick individuals who get off on seeing vulnerable, preferably younger people skewered on the ‘sicko’s’ own fantasy outcomes? They won’t do it to themselves of course, it might not look good.
If you don’t know, life changes ones outlook as time progresses and each becomes basically a different person, say, when youthfullness gives way to more serious meaning of life. It also occurs later in life too as one nears the ‘crone’ stage, the winding down, where wisdom is what it’s about. You might have noticed this in other people, if not yourself, so something done earlier in life becomes a source of intense regret and grappling with the why of it. Enough to kill one’s self over? It’s possible.
I dare say some can make the best of It, but for others, once transitioned in body too, there is no going back to the way it was.
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