Suicide risk is much higher among transgender people than others, study shows.
New research has found that people who are transgender are far more prone to suicide than their peers.
The new study, using Denmark's centralized data repository, found that transgender people had 7.7 times the rate of suicide attempts compared to others. They also had 3.5 times the rate of suicide deaths.
Suicide rates in all groups did decrease over time, the study noted.
Still, transgender people died at younger ages than others, whether by suicide or from other causes, researchers said.
"This is beyond doubt a huge problem that needs to be looked at," study co-author Dr. Morten Frisch, a sexual health epidemiologist at Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, told the New York Times.
To study the issue, his team identified nearly 3,800 transgender people in Denmark through hospital records and applications for legal gender changes. The study found 92 suicide attempts and 12 suicide deaths in the transgender group between 1980 and 2021.
The U.S. and Denmark have similar suicide rates, so the findings may also apply in America, the researchers noted.
Suicide risk is much higher among transgender people than others, study shows (msn.com)
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