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Study Shows That Conversion Therapy Leads To Suicide Attempts In Trans Youth

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Prior research has been unable to tease out cause and effect between health outcomes and gender-affirming care like hormone therapy or gender-denying interventions like conversion therapy, largely because of a lack of broad data or an appropriate control group. “The Conversation” team, along with other researchers studied data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey which includes responses from over 27,000 trans adults across the nation. They compared people who initiated an intervention with those who initiated the same intervention one year later. They found that over 40% of trans adolescents living in family environments that are unsupportive of their gender identity attempted suicide by the age of 18. The analysis also showed that hormone replacement therapy significantly improves the mental health of trans youths. In comparing differences in suicide attempts between trans youths who started HRT a year apart from each other, they found that both groups experienced similar increases in suicide attempts over the five years before initiating treatment but experienced a significant drop the year they started treatment. Overall, initiating hormone therapy led to a 14.4% reduction in attempting suicide for trans youths. There was a 13.8% increase in attempted suicide within the first year of conversation therapy and a 47.5% increase in running away from home.

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  • Adrianna Tender

    A transgender advocate and health care practitioner. She has extensive education and experience in HIV prevention and health care that relates to transgender individuals. She currently works as the Program Coordinator with Transinclusive Group and is the owner of Tender Loving Care Trans Mentoring. She received the Bishop SF Makalani Mahee Transgender Advocate Award in 2019 and has received many other awards. She serves on the National Board of Governors of the Human Rights Campaign and is on the Board of Directors for the Dolphin Democrats and Black LGBTQ Liberation. She is a member of several civic and political organizations like NAACP, and the Florida LGBTQ Democratic Caucus, and attends Antioch Missionary Baptist Church.

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