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Nearly 50% of LGBT teens considered suicide last year - with nearly one-fifth of transgender men attempting to end their lives, shocking survey finds
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Posted on 05/01/2024 1:52:37 PM PDT by algore

More than one in 10 young people who identify as LGBTQ attempted suicide in 2023, a survey from suicide prevention organization Trevor Project has found.

The survey, which focuses on the mental health of LGBTQ youth, was circulated to 18,000 people from ages 13 to 24.

Nearly 40 percent of LGBTQ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, while 46 percent of transgender and nonbinary young people between the ages of 13 and 17 had similar ideations.

Transgender men were the most at risk, with more than 50 percent of them reporting considering suicide and 18 percent of them attempting it.

Among LGBTQ teens aged 13 to 17, a total of 16 percent attempted suicide. This is higher than the average among all LGBTQ youths, which sits at 12 percent.

Even more troubling, half of those surveyed reported not being able to get mental health care when they needed it.

When broken down further, suicidal ideation vastly differs among different groups in the LGBTQ community.

Those identifying as pansexual had both the highest rate of considering suicide and attempting it, with gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer people reporting relatively similar rates of attempting suicide.

Across racial groups, Native American LGBTQ youth were by far and away the most likely to consider or attempt suicide, according to the survey.

The Trevor Project said that 'anti-LGBTQ+ victimization' was the main factor in young people's increased likelihood for suicide, something the organization has found in its previous surveys.

'Once again, this year's survey shows that considering or attempting suicide is not uncommon among LGBTQ+ young people,' said Dr. Ronita Nath, the Vice President of Research at the Trevor Project. 'However, many of the contributing risk factors for suicide are preventable, and often rooted in victimizing behaviors of others.'

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To: algore
Even more troubling, half of those surveyed reported not being able to get mental health care when they needed it.

The mental health system (and education system) is essentially telling them they are fine! They are telling them they are "normal" and should embrace their mental illness. They are NOT fine. They are sick, and need help. These children have suicide rates similar to or higher than psychotic disorders! In the case of transgenders, that hazard also applies to their risk of violence. You don't tell someone with schizophrenia they are normal and should obey the voices, and you shouldn't tell mentally ill children that they are fine.

21 posted on 05/01/2024 2:14:21 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: algore
They're mentally ill.

Affirming their delusions will not cure crazy.

22 posted on 05/01/2024 2:20:55 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: algore

How do we teach them to achieve success?


23 posted on 05/01/2024 2:21:41 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

As my SIL said to her soon to be ex husband when he threatened suicide: “Don’t Wait!”


24 posted on 05/01/2024 2:25:54 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: algore

“Transgender men were the most at risk, with more than 50 percent of them reporting considering suicide and 18 percent of them attempting it.”

Because the are sad neurotic girls struggling with all sorts of mental health problems or emotional trauma, often sexual abuse.


25 posted on 05/01/2024 2:26:25 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: algore

Mental illness cannot be "fixed" by pretending it is "normal" or by convincing others to "play along" with their dysphoria. Like watering a tree, that'll only make it grow.

You can't enable the morbidly obese into physical health; you can't enable a drug addicts into sobriety; and you can't enable the mentally ill into stability.


26 posted on 05/01/2024 2:27:48 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: algore

Yeah. And after the surgery how many of them WILL GO THROUGH WITH IT?


27 posted on 05/01/2024 2:33:09 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: algore

Those with mental disorders always have higher suicide rates, period.


28 posted on 05/01/2024 2:36:29 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: algore

I doubt that this is a surprise to anyone on Free Republic. We have been reading many articles and even peer-reviewed papers (for what that is worth) for some time now, and that is one of the reasons so many of us are absolutely dead-set and appalled at this normalization of this insanity, PARTICULARLY with young children!

We recognize that many young people go through stages in early life where sexual issues are confusing and uncomfortable, and what they need is help getting through those stages, and they are fine and have a normal life.

This has NOTHING to do with those poor children who are born with ambiguous sex, who may have a mix of physical sexual characteristics. This children NEED surgical and therapy help. I specifically say this, because every time you have this conversation with people who are all in on transsexualism, they ALWAYS seem to bring this up, and it has NO bearing on those hermaphroditic children.

The atrocity is encouraging and aiding children from pre-teens up to 18 to undergo sex change procedures! IT IS CHILD ABUSE. Those poor kids will NEVER, EVER have a happy life. They are sentenced to lives of misery and pain, and willingly sentenced to that BY THEIR OWN PARENTS, EDUCATORS, LEGISLATORS, and MEDICAL PERSONNEL.

It is criminal. These people who encourage this, fund this, and carry this shameful abuse out should go to jail. Especially those “professionals” in Medicine like the ones on record who laud it as a “revenue stream”.

Sometimes, it is nearly impossible for me to imagine this world we live in now, where this is normalized and encouraged.

Shameful.


29 posted on 05/01/2024 2:44:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I often drive by houses that say “This house supports transgender teens.”

What?


30 posted on 05/01/2024 2:46:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: algore

I don’t give a crap if they kill themselves. I’m more worried about the vast majority of these train wrecks wanting to take a bunch of normies with them.


31 posted on 05/01/2024 3:02:22 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: algore

Another what was I thinking issue sometimes you pass the no return line.


32 posted on 05/01/2024 3:06:06 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: algore

I would more favor 100% of teens considering killing their groomers with a baseball bat with nails stuck in it.


33 posted on 05/01/2024 3:09:42 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: algore
A just released 15 year study that found: 96% of trans children, if left alone and allowed to go through puberty, will accept their biological gender and go on to live normal lives with a normal suicide rate.

96 percent.

Most gender-confused children grow out of it, landmark 15-year study concludes - as critics say it shows being trans is usually just a phase for kids

Hormones and "gender affirming surgery" damages 96% of gender-confused children, because it prevents them from going going through puberty and growing up (and growing out of their gender confusion).

Notice you aren't seeing any headlines about this study. If it went the other way (supporting transitioning) you can be sure it would be headline news.

34 posted on 05/01/2024 3:13:33 PM PDT by Brookhaven (Ted Cruz said Jan. 6 was terrorism; don't forget that the next time you vote.)
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To: algore

Having adult strangers (psychologist and whackjob trachers) encourage you to be gay or tran against your parent(s?) will can really mess up a psychology.


35 posted on 05/01/2024 3:19:47 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: algore

They are after all insane.


36 posted on 05/01/2024 5:11:47 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: algore

Mental defectives consider suicide? Who woulda thunk it?


37 posted on 05/01/2024 5:14:58 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: algore

And this surprises whom? IT was already a know fact this crap happened to them.


38 posted on 05/01/2024 5:16:27 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: ConservativeMind

That is a brilliant observation.

L


39 posted on 05/01/2024 5:20:48 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Noumenon

All should turn to Jesus and repent.


40 posted on 05/01/2024 5:24:10 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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