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What does "40%" mean in this context?
A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. It found that interpersonal microaggressions and emotional neglect by family members were the leading contributors to the attempts.
Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide.
According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide.
Meanwhile, a 2018 study of more than 120,000 children age 11 to 19 found that 41.8 percent of non-binary adolescents—those who do not identify as definitively male or female—had attempted suicide
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Thanks. That's so sad 😢
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Yeah a bunch of maga think that's an insult, and not just evidence of their cruelty and ignorance.
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The bigger the sample the less likely survivorship bias of the respondents.
Took me forever to find the last study, for those interested, link:
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/142/4/e20174218/76767/Transgender-Adolescent-Suicide-Behavior
As you can see it's rather lackluster in presenting it's findings.
Adding to the other replies, right wing transphobes routinely hail the suicide rate as a badge of honour. They love joking about it and insinuating it should be higher. They're really not quiet about expressing that they absolutely want trans people to kill themselves.
Iirc there was a stat that ~40% of trans people attempt suicide
Oh.. 😢