Fri Jun 30, 2023 – 4:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A Danish study has shown that people who suffer from gender dysphoria have a 3.5 higher suicide rate and 7.7 times more suicide attempts than the general population.
The cohort study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and examined 6,657,456 Danish-born individuals over age 14 who lived in the country between 1980 and 2021.
Of those individuals, 3,759 (0.06%) were categorized as “transgender” based on “national hospital records and administrative records of legal change of gender.”
The study authors found that “transgender individuals … had significantly higher rates of suicide attempt, suicide mortality, suicide-unrelated mortality, and all-cause mortality compared with the nontransgender population.”
In addition to having a higher suicide rate (3.5 times higher) and a higher rate of suicide attempts (7.7 times higher), gender-confused individuals also had around a two times higher death rate (from all causes) compared with the average Danish population.
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The study authors, when discussing the reasons for the high suicide rate among gender-confused individuals, opined that “[t]ransgender individuals may be exposed to systemic negativity regarding their trans identity in
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