A new University of Los Angeles (UCLA) analysis of data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found discrimination leads transgender individuals to contemplate and attempt suicide at high rates.
The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center of Transgender Equality included responses from 27,715 transgender people from all 50 states, D.C., American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. military bases overseas. It is the largest survey of transgender adults in the U.S. UCLA’s analysis found that of the respondents who experienced discrimination based on their identities in the past year, many also reported either contemplating or attempting suicide in that year.
The four types of anti-transgender discrimination and violence the survey covered were job loss, eviction, homelessness and physical attack.