Transgender EuroStudy â Legal Survey and Focus ... - ILGA Europe
Transgender EuroStudy â Legal Survey and Focus ... - ILGA Europe
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49 April 2008<br />
How Bad Can Life get<br />
Chart 10: The Proportion of Respondents Who Reported<br />
Attempting Suicide as an Adult<br />
29.90%<br />
Yes<br />
70.10%<br />
No<br />
In the 2006 study for the UK the figures for the suicide attempts both for trans people as<br />
children <strong>and</strong> adolescents <strong>and</strong> for adults were identical: 34%, which needs further analysis <strong>and</strong><br />
research. The <strong>Europe</strong>an study figures are not much better than the UK figures, as can be seen in Chart<br />
11. At 29.9% they are lower but not much. This is significant when compared with results of a large<br />
retrospective study of over 17,000 adults who attended a San Diego primary care clinic which found<br />
that the lifetime prevalence of having at least 1 suicide attempt was nearly an eighth the rate of our<br />
study at only 3.8%. (Shanta R. Dube, MPH; et al 2001). The San Diego study also related the question to<br />
those with adverse childhood experiences in any category. This increased the risk of attempted suicide<br />
by 2 to 5 times. Thus between 7.6% <strong>and</strong> 19% of the group had attempted suicide at least once, a figure<br />
at the top level of which is only 65% of the reported rate of these respondents.
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