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Journal of Public Health on Suicidality in LGBT youth

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KingLooieCatz · 05/11/2018 11:38

academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/article/40/3/e244/4555272

Only had time to skim, people with more time might find this interesting - The social determinants of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicidality in England: a mixed methods study.

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 05/11/2018 12:23

This is the first national study in England to report on the social determinants of suicidality and self-harm in LGBT youth populations...Those who had self-harmed and/or had a disability had an increased likelihood of planned or attempted suicide. Those who identified as transgender were nearly twice as likely to have self-harmed, and one and a half times more likely to have planned or attempted suicide, than male/female participants...

Limitations of this study
Non-probability samples of LGBT populations allow the scientific study of important public health issues, however it is difficult to determine whether findings are characteristic of the population in general or solely the sample recruited...Whilst we found associations between certain social determinants of suicidality and self-harm, this does not necessarily imply causality.

In short, any child who LGB or T is more likely to be bullied because of their social difference. Those who are trans are c twice as likely to self harm or attempt suicide that what? Male/female children... non trans? Non LGB or T?

And the detail says those who had self harmed were 7 time more likely to report having planned suicide, but I haven't worked out if that is ALL who self harm.

It looks like a good study but the detail in comparative data sets may be missing. I'll have closer look later!

lucasthecat · 05/11/2018 13:33

To be included in either part of the study - you had to be LGBT - and already expressing suicidal thoughts and or self harming - so any results can’t be benchmarked agains the LGBT population or total population

CuriousaboutSamphire · 05/11/2018 13:51

Ah! Of course. That self selection and self reported behaviours in the PP criteria! I read over that far too quickly!

So far then, it shows that T youths report c. twice as much self harm and suicide ideation as LGB youths who report as having self harmed or planned suicide and that social factors may be a factor.

I now remember why I took great pains to explain self reporting and self selection. I hope they do more, place this in context with other cohorts, preferably before the stats get added to the usual morass of misinformation!

arranfan · 05/11/2018 13:57

It feels appropriate to drop in Prof. Michael Bigg's analysis of his Freedom of Information request to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which serves patients aged under 18 in England and Wales. It provided information from 2016 to August 2018:

www.transgendertrend.com/suicide-by-trans-identified-children-in-england-and-wales/

CuriousaboutSamphire · 05/11/2018 14:03

It does, doesn't it?!

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